L’écriture fragmentaire : une destruction d’une perspective unitaire du récit dans Terrasse à Rome de Pascal Quignard by Nabila Bekhedidja

“…The composition of this novel required from the author a perfect disposition of each of the scenes, of each of the words, according to the textual totality. …”
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Stratified Object-Oriented Image Classification Based on Remote Sensing Image Scene Division by Wen Zhou, Dongping Ming, Lu Xu, Hanqing Bao, Min Wang

“…This method firstly uses middle semantic which can reflect an image’s visual complexity to classify the remote sensing image into different scenes, and then within each scene, an improved grid search algorithm is employed to optimize the segmentation result of each scene, so that the optimal scale can be utmostly adopted for each scene. …”
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A Robust Game Approach for On Spot Price Cloud Markets in Microservice-Based Applications by Hamta Sedghani, Mauro Passacantando, Riccardo Lancellotti, Mina Zolfy Lighvan, Danilo Ardagna

“…As Cloud-based services become more numerous and dynamic, developing efficient service provisioning policies is increasingly challenging due to the impact of estimation errors in the operating parameters of applications such as execution time or request rate for each application and for each service. In this paper, we take the perspective of Software as a Service (SaaS) providers which host their applications at an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider. …”
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Principles of administrative legal proceedings in modern conditions: scientific and legal aspect by M. V. Dzhafarova

“…Based on the analysis of the existing scientific developments on this issue, the author supports and further develops the scientific position on determining the characteristic features inherent in the principles of administrative justice in the modern context, namely a) each principle is based on a certain idea, determined by the socio-legal and ideological values of public life, the state and law at this stage of development and functioning; b) the principles have an external expression, i.e. they are textually concentrated in the norms of administrative procedure legislation and reflect the content, essence and internal structure of administrative proceedings, the entire process of the dynamics of its implementation; c) the principles perform a safeguarding function, as they contribute to the main task of administrative proceedings to ensure the proper level of exercise and protection of individuals and legal entities of their rights, freedoms and legitimate interests from violations by public authorities; d) each principle should be logical and scientifically grounded, internally balanced, aimed at ensuring the orderly administration of justice in administrative cases, while not repeating the content of other principles of administrative justice and not contradicting each other.…”
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Unsupervised Plot Morphology Classification via Graph Attention Networks: Evidence from Nanjing’s Walled City by Ziyu Liu, Yacheng Song

“…Our approach converts each cadastral plot into a graph whose nodes are building centroids and whose edges reflect Delaunay-based proximity. …”
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The Facial Shapes in Planning the Treatment with Injectable Fillers by André Braz, Camila Cazerta de Paula Eduardo

“…Introduction The facial beauty is not easy to define, yet it is paramount to assess the needs of each patient to propose an appropriate treatment plan that will provide beautification or rejuvenation in a natural-looking fashion. …”
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Librarian involvement on knowledge synthesis articles and its relationship to citation counts and Journal Impact Factor by Krista Alexander, Katharine Hall, Yuling Max Chen

“…The full-text of each article was examined in order to code each as either co-author, acknowledged, or unknown to reflect the level of librarian involvement in the synthesis. …”
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National Conflict for Power at the Safavid Court (1501 – 1722) by Delzar Salih Sadiq

“…Although most of the other Safavid kings followed the same path after the death of Shah Ismail I, the reign of none of the kings ended without conflict between Persians and Turks, so that the conflict had reached the Safavid court, despite the two nations They were each other, and each of them strongly supported one of the princes of the family to take power, the conflict reflected on all parts of the country, which eventually weakened the state and eventually collapsed in …”
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A Gradient Grating Period Guided-Mode Resonance Spectrometer by Hsin-Yun Hsu, Yi-Hsuan Lan, Cheng-Sheng Huang

“…The GMR is specially designed to exhibit gradient grating periods (GPPs) laterally to ensure that the GMR functions as a linear-variable bandstop filter. Each period corresponds to a resonant wavelength such that this wavelength is reflected back at its corresponding resonant period and transmitted to all other periods. …”
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Systematic literature reviews over the years by Beata Smela, Mondher Toumi, Karolina Świerk, Konrad Gawlik, Emilie Clay, Laurent Boyer

“…The majority of SLRs included between 11 and 50 RCTs each.Conclusions: The recognition of SLRs’ usefulness is growing at an increasing speed, which is reflected by the growing number of published studies. …”
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Cultural, sociopolitical, environmental and built assets supporting health and well-being in Torres Strait Island communities: protocol for a scoping review by Sarah Russell, Edward Strivens, Kathryn Meldrum, Valda Wallace, Torres Webb, Rachel Quigley, Melissa Kilburn

“…Searches will be limited to the English language and literature published since January 2018 to ensure that the assets mapped reflect current conditions on each island. Data that answers the research question will be extracted from sources and recorded in an adaptation of the IICS. …”
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Vulnerabilities in migrant live-in care arrangements for people with dementia: a comparative analysis of experts’ insights from Germany and Israel by Natalie Ulitsa, Anna Eva Nebowsky, Liat Ayalon, Mark Schweda, Milena von Kutzleben

“…The study also highlighted both similarities and differences in expert experiences between Germany and Israel, reflecting the unique socio-cultural and legal contexts of each country.ConclusionsThe study underscores the multifaceted and interdependent nature of vulnerabilities in migrant live-in care arrangements for people with dementia. …”
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Modern digital educational tools and digital competence: analysis of cases and trends by O. V. Kalimullina, I. V. Trotsenko

“…In this paper, we conducted a review and analysis of existing publications, open data and information about the used and available digital educational tools. Information about each of the educational environments and platforms was structured and presented in the form of tables, as well as reflected through the scheme of interaction of the teacher with the student in the digital environment. …”
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Numerical Analysis of the Influence of Rheology of Layered Deep Overburden on the Structural Performance of Concrete Face Rockfill Dam Based on Improved Rheological Element Model by Fan WANG, Haitao MAO, Xiaoju WANG, Kebin SHI

“…Results indicated that for the layered dam foundation with noticeable anisotropy, the H–KS rheological model more accurately reflects the actual stress, deformation, and seepage conditions of the dam at each stage, with an error within 5%; Compared to the Duncan E–B model, which does not account for rheology, the stress and deformation have increased by more than 11.8%, and some of this increase affects the safety and stability of the dam structure. …”
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FaciaVox: A diverse multimodal biometric dataset of facial images and voice recordingsZenodo by Kamal Abuqaaud, Ali Bou Nassif, Ismail Shahin

“…While the studio provided a controlled setting, the classroom introduced variables such as echo and sound reflections. Some participants were recorded in the studio, while others were recorded in the classroom, as detailed in the file named 'FaciaVox list' which specifies where each participant was recorded. …”
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THE ROLE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS IN THE INNOVATIONS MANAGEMENT by Y. Kafiyatullina, E. Panfilova

“…The role of the development of operational management concepts in order to pro-vide systematic support for the organization’s innovation activities has been considered. It has noticed, that each concept is an organizational innovation for the implementation of oper-ational activities, with each subsequent does not contradict the previous one, which makes possible simultaneous application of several in order to improve the efficiency of the organ-ization. …”
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USSR and Contemporary USA: Two Paradigms of the Social Development Deadlock by K. A. Kaveev

“…This article contains reflections of the author about two essentially different approaches by the ways of historical social development: liberal and socialist, each of which has provided social progress on a certain interval of time, at the same time, in process of realization and in different degree, each of them was deadlock. …”
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Regard rapproché, regard éloigné dans la critique d’art, de Diderot à Huysmans by Michel Delon

“…Diderot the materialist and Huysmans the spiritualist meet to celebrate the miracle of art, which brings forth beauty from mere material pigments. Each incites the viewer to restlessness and curiosity in front of the artwork. …”
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Ecosystem Sustainability Assessment Using IUCN (Case Study: Dorook Basin) by Atefeh Teimoori, Seyed Mortza Seyedian, Hamed Rouhani, Reza Ahmadi

“…The measurements were done in each sub-basin separately. The results of analysis indicated that relation to sustainable human criterion and indicators, land use changes is the lowest score criterion. …”
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Variation in mitochondrial genome primary sequence among whole-genome-sequenced strains of Neurospora crassa by K. McCluskey

“…Despite the fact that the mitochondrial genome is present in multiple copies per cell, many of the polymorphisms were homozygous within each strain. Conversely, some polymorphisms, especially those associated with large scale rearrangements are only present in a fraction of the reads covering each region. …”
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