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Youth Organizations as a “Well-arranged” Symbolic Space: An Analysis of the Polish Online Discourse of AIESEC and ATD Fourth World

open access: yesSAGE Open
The symbolic space of an organization can be analyzed as Foucault’s heterotopia and described using his six principles of heterotopia. The premise of this study is that the symbolic space of an organization fulfills the heterotopian compensation function
Violetta Kopińska
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Ordinal Spectrum: Mapping Ordinal Patterns into Frequency Domain [PDF]

open access: yesEntropy
Classical spectral analysis characterizes linear systems effectively but often fails to reveal the nonlinear temporal structure of chaotic dynamics. We introduce the ordinal spectrum, a frequency-domain characterization derived from the ordinal-pattern ...
Mario Chavez, Johann H. Martínez
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La demarcazione religiosa del territorio nel Bhutan

open access: yesEtnoAntropologia, 2015
This paper deals with the symbolic organization of space in the traditional Bhutanese society on the background of the Buddhist religion. The author argues that there are different semantic networks whose ‘knots’ are monasteries, temples, stupa (mound ...
Pietro Scarduelli
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The Effect of Spatial Organization on the Sustainability of the Neighborhood Unit in the Residential Environment

open access: yesJournal of Engineering, 2023
Contemporary residential neighborhoods suffer from weak sustainability of urban residential environments as a result of the adoption of inefficient spatial organization at the neighborhood unit level.
Sajida Kadum Al-Kindy
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Not Seeing Is Believing: Ritual Practice and Architecture at Chalcolithic Çadır Höyük in Anatolia

open access: yesReligions, 2021
Chalcolithic religious practice at the site of Çadır Höyük (central Anatolia) included the insertion of ritual deposits into the architectural fabric of the settlement, “consecrating” spaces or imbuing them with symbolic properties.
Laurel Darcy Hackley   +2 more
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ConGen—A Simulator-Agnostic Visual Language for Definition and Generation of Connectivity in Large and Multiscale Neural Networks

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroinformatics, 2022
An open challenge on the road to unraveling the brain's multilevel organization is establishing techniques to research connectivity and dynamics at different scales in time and space, as well as the links between them.
Patrick Herbers   +15 more
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L’espace de l’institutionnalisation ludique

open access: yesGéographie et Cultures, 2012
While sociology and history have consistently studied institutionalization, two questions have remained untouched: first, games of combinations, like chess, have been touched by this very institutionalization process, like sports; second, space is a ...
Manouk Borzakian
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Planning Education and Sacred Spaces. Re-establishing a Necessary Relationship

open access: yesIn_Bo, 2022
The relationship between planning education and sacred space is ambivalent. On one hand, urban history courses highlight the relationship between sacred space and the history of the city; on the other, contemporary planning has lost the sense of sacred ...
Giulio Giovannoni
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Pour une géographie des lieux sacrés gizey

open access: yesGéographie et Cultures, 2018
Place names are expression of a culture that is inscribed in the space as geography. This essay shows the symbolic role of some place names, collected through fieldwork, in the social organization of a small rural community in the northeast of Cameroon ...
Luigi Gaffuri, Antonino Melis
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Benches as Materialisations of (Active) Ageing in Public Space: First Steps towards a Praxeology of Space

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2019
In its promotion of “active ageing” through Age-Friendly Cities and Communities (AFCC) and the Global Network on AgeFriendly Cities and Communities (GNAFCC), the World Health Organization has developed a vision of ageing that links socio-spatial ...
Thibauld Moulaert, Anna Wanka
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