Results 51 to 60 of about 1,977,370 (200)
Regarding torres and books: the circularity of reading (from Borges to Rapunzel)
Ocnos, 2013 The tower, the house, the body, the world… are metaphors of the universe whose correlation (especially, boy-house-world) are symbols of the universe in M. Eliade.
Eloy Martos
doaj
Li Shangyin and the Art of Poetic Ambiguity
Ars & Humanitas, 2016 Li Shangyin (813–858), one of the most respected, mysterious, ambiguous and provocative of Chinese poets, lived during the late Tang period, when the glorious Tang dynasty was beginning to decline.
Maja Lavrač
doaj +1 more source
Tackling the Minimal Superpermutation Problem [PDF]
, 2014 A superpermutation on $n$ symbols is a string that contains each of the $n!$ permutations of the $n$ symbols as a contiguous substring. The shortest superpermutation on $n$ symbols was conjectured to have length $\sum_{i=1}^n i!$. The conjecture had been
Houston, Robin
core
Tracing symbols of life and symbols of death in Neolithic archaeological contexts
Documenta Praehistorica, 2005 Since Early Neolithic several miscellaneous objects seem to have served for self-decoration keeping though a symbolic meaning as they are found in certain repeated types which must have been recognisable and accepted by all as ‘signifiers‘ of social and ...
Nina Kyparissi Apostolika
doaj +1 more source
Optimal Linear Codes with a Local-Error-Correction Property
, 2012 Motivated by applications to distributed storage, Gopalan \textit{et al} recently introduced the interesting notion of information-symbol locality in a linear code.
Kamath, Govinda M. +3 more
core +1 more source
Documenta Praehistorica, 2007 The article presents the archaeological and experimental data on the Neolithic stamp- seals from phenomenological perspective. An alternative view to their production, consumption and symbolic values is proposed by employing concepts of affordances ...
Agni Prijatelj
doaj +1 more source
Toeplitz operators defined by sesquilinear forms: Fock space case
, 2014 The classical theory of Toeplitz operators in spaces of analytic functions deals usually with symbols that are bounded measurable functions on the domain in question.
Rozenblum, Grigori, Vasilevski, Nikolai
core +1 more source
Imprints of the Neolithic mind – clay stamps from the Republic of Macedonia
Documenta Praehistorica, 2008 The presence and unusual structure of clay stamps found in Neolithic settlements often give rise to multiple interpretations to define their character.
Goce Naumov
doaj +1 more source
Symbols are not uniquely human [PDF]
, 2006 Modern semiotics is a branch of logics that formally defines symbol-based communication. In recent years, the semiotic classification of signs has been invoked to support the notion that symbols are uniquely human.
Araújo, Ivan +4 more
core
Insights Through Performative Approaches
Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2008 This script aims to explore how performative approaches can be used to enhance the understanding of social situations by going beyond the presenting or outermost layer of a problem.
Martina Battisti, Tanja Eiselen
doaj