How can mental maps, applied to the coast environment, help in collecting and analyzing spatial representations? by Servane Gueben-Venière

“…Evolution of the thinking of engineers in charge of Dutch coastal management.), prize-winner of the competition organized by the Paris Doctoral School of Geography Forum in 2011.…”
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En quoi les cartes mentales, appliquées à l’environnement littoral, aident-elles au recueil et à l’analyse des représentations spatiales ? by Servane Gueben-Venière

“…Evolution of the thinking of engineers in charge of Dutch coastal management"), prize-winner of the competition organized by the Paris Doctoral School of Geography Forum in 2011.…”
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Contest in Nanai Shamanic Tales by Tatiana Bulgakova

“…The predominate role of these fantastic personages/helpers in tales that represent invisible spirit helpers perform real shamanic praxis, explains the loser’s unconditional submission and readiness to sacrifice their freedom or life to the winner. It also clarifies the motivation of the initiators of these contests and games: by means of gathering a great number of competitors, such shamans solve their personal spiritual problems, such as the need to overcome their adversaries or find allies in the struggle against their opponents.…”
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3D MIMO channel modeling and simulations by Xiongwen ZHAO, Mengyuan ZHANG, Rui ZHANG, Shu LI, Leke LIN

“…The existing MIMO channel simulation models are based on two-dimensional（2D）plane and can’t match with a three-dimensional（3D）radio propagation environment.A 3D MIMO channel simulation platform based on WINNER channel model was set up.After adding the vertical dimension in the model，the array patterns should be extended from 2D to 3D and 3D MIMO channel simulations were implemented.The simulation results of 3D MIMO channel parameters were validated by comparisons with the 3D measurements for an urban micro cell，good agreements could be observed.Simulation results show that the 3D channel correlation is bigger than 2D，however， its capacity has bigger improvement compared with 2D.…”
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Appropriation sociale du numérique, communs et politique publique, retours sur l’expérience de la Ville de Brest by Michel Briand, Bernard Brunet

“…Using the criteria laid out by Nobel Prize winner for economics Elinor Ostrom, four of these initiatives, which have been documented throughout their development, show how well a common resource can emerge from a community-initiated community service project: a shared resource, a community of users and producers, a flexible system of governance involving its various stakeholders. …”
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Bio-based circular materials. Innovative packaging and construction products by Antonella Violano, Monica Cannaviello, Salvatore Del Prete

“…Vanvitelli’ University of Campania in collaboration with the innovative start-up Service Biotech Srl, winner of the BioInItaly Investment Forum 2021 & Intesa Sanpaolo Start-Up Initiative for the Circular Bioeconomy sector.…”
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“Perversion to match the curtains”? Grayson Perry’s tranny aesthetic by Margaret GILLESPIE

“…Grayson Perry CBE, winner of the 2003 Turner Prize, is one of Britain’s most prominent contemporary multi-media artists and cultural commentators. …”
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Chemostats and epidemics: Competition for nutrients/hosts by Hal L. Smith, Horst R. Thieme

“…In a chemostat, several species compete for the same nutrient, whilein an epidemic, several strains of the same pathogen may competefor the same susceptible hosts. As winner, chemostat models predict the specieswith the lowest break-even concentration, while epidemicmodels predict the strain with the largest basic reproduction number.We show that these predictions amount to the same if the per capitafunctional responses of consumer species to the nutrient concentration or ofinfective individuals to the density of susceptibles are proportional to eachother but that they are different if the functional responses are nonproportional.In the second case, the correct prediction is given by the break-even concentrations.In the case of nonproportional functional responses, we add a class for which the prediction does not only rely on local stability and instability of one-species (strain) equilibriabut on the global outcome of the competition. …”
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THE PLACE OF TRANSILVANIA WITHIN THE POLITICAL AND ETHNIC FRAMEWORK OF THE ROMANIAN STATE by Ioan CHIȘ

“…The First World War bought unimaginable suffering to the Romanian people, tragic consequences for thousands of families who saw their sons lives squandered on the fields of defense of the territory as well as the riches and wealth of the country destroyed and stolen for the benefit of looters who considered that the exploatation of the Romanian territories was a right of the winner. The payment for the sufferings has never been done for the families of the Romanians, but the history of Transylvania and the Romanian lands has the mercy to place all Romanians in their place next to the ethnic homeland, as it was written in the eternal and fascinating fate of Dacia Felix. …”
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De la difficulté de concilier lutte noire pour l’égalité et aspirations olympiques : Lee Evans et les Jeux de Mexico (1968) by François-René Julliard

“…The day after Tommie Smith and John Carlos famously raised their fists on the 200-meter podium, Evans, winner of the 400-meter race, briefly wore a Black Panther beret and raised his fist on the podium before the U.S. anthem rang out. …”
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Data provision for IoT searches:an auction approach by Li-hua YIN, Yun-chuan GUO, Hui-bing ZHANG

“…Getting accurate data was one of keys problems in the IoTs search.Different from the Web searches that use the crawlers to collect data on the Internet,the IoT searches require that owners offer data proactively because their data were not simply released to the Internet.However,due to some reasons(privacy concerns),data owners were unwilling to provide their data to the IoT searches without enough incentives.As a result,effectively motivating owners to provided data becomes a key problem for he development of IoT searches.To address this problem,a multi-attribute auction that maximizes cost-effectiveness ratio was proposed.This mechanism can prevent hostile bids and avoid the problem that the winner provide data inconsistent with the promised quality.It was also proved that in the auction,the optimal quality was independent from its quotation and other bidders’ quality and their price.…”
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Inter-carrier interference cancellation using spatial characteristics for high-mobility OFDM communication systems by Wei WANG, Qin-ye YIN, Peng-cheng MU

“…High-mobility orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM)systems suffered severe inter-carrier interference(ICI)from Doppler spreading.On the basis of the characteristics of wireless propagation in practical scenarios,a method which employed the WINNER Ⅱ channel model to represent the practical wireless channel and an antenna array as the receiver to eliminate ICI in space-domain was proposed.The direction of arrival estimation algorithm and the beamforming network were used to separate the received signals in space-domain.Multi-beam diversity gain was obtained finally by means of combining the signals which have been compensated for Doppler frequency shifts(DFS)respectively.Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method not only effectively reduces ICI and the error floors,but also obtains a 5～7 dB signal-to-interference gain over systems without use of the proposed method.…”
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Self-Adaptive Predictor-Corrector Approach for General Variational Inequalities Using a Fixed-Point Formulation by Kubra Sanaullah, Saleem Ullah, Muhammad Shoaib Arif, Kamaleldin Abodayeh, Rabia Fayyaz

“…A literature review revealed that the general variational inequalities, fixed-point problems, and Winner–Hopf equations are equivalent. In this study, general variational inequality and fixed-point problem are considered. …”
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HISTORY OF FORMATION AND PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF BELARUSIAN SCIENTIFIC CHEMICAL ANT THERMAL TREATMENT SCHOOL by N. I. Ivanitsky, E. P. Pouchkov

“…One of the founders of the Scientific School of Belarusian Metal Science Specialists has been Professor Leonid Grigorievich Voroshnine, double N.A. Minkevich prize-winner, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Head of the Department. …”
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Development of cultivars that expand the area of almond cultivation: commemorating the 120th birthday of Prof. Alexander An. Richter by A. A. Richter

“…Richter, a prominent scientist in the field of breeding new cultivars of nut crops and subtropical fruit plants, is widely known worldwide. A winner of the USSR State Prize, Prof. Dr. A. Richter was second in the world to develop a program of almond cultivation and breeding, thus making a significant contribution to the development of horticulture in the south of Russia. …”
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Star and National Myths in Cold War Allegories: Marlene Dietrich’s Star Persona and the Western in Fritz Lang’s Rancho Notorious (1952) by Hilaria Loyo

“…Through Dietrich’s character, Altar, the boss of the Chuck-a-Luck ranch and the criminal world it embodied, Lang critiqued the emerging Cold War ideology of the man as patriarchal figure and bread-winner. At the same time, by moving Dietrich progressively towards the centre of the film, he produced an amalgam of the women’s film and the Western genre that suggested the pointlessness of the male aggression the Western itself had traditionally embodied.…”
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The Debate Between Realism and Formalism in Contemporary International Law (Emphasizing the Procedure of the International Court of Justice) by Sepanta Mojtahedzadeh

“…The answer that we got in brief is that the debate between these two methods in contemporary international law and as a result in the opinions of the International Court of Justice, has not had a clearly defined winner. However, the tendency is more towards formalism.…”
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Two Views on Ukrainian Culture of the late 1910s-early 1920s in Two Open Letters from the Year 1960 by Maria Mayofis

“…In the first letter, Maksim Ryl’skii, a renowned Soviet Ukrainian poet and two-time winner of the Stalin Prize, accuses the famous writer (and his former friend) Konstantin Paustovskii of making unacceptable errors in describing Ukrainian culture of the late 19th-early 20th century in the third and fifth volumes of his memoirs, and Paustovskii answers him in a week in the same periodical. …”
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Calebasses anthropophages et dévoreurs africains by Jean-Loïc Le Quellec

“…This new variant would have spread to the West and South, giving birth to stories in which there is only the calabash, and these new versions would have been more particularly implanted in the West and enriched by a new motive: the one according to which the winner of this vegetal Devourer is no longer a human, but an animal, and more particularly a ram.…”
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