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Two new Later Stone Age sites from the Final Pleistocene in the Falémé Valley, eastern Senegal Open
Introduction: \nReducing waiting times is a major policy objective in publicly-funded healthcare systems. However, reductions in waiting times can produce a demand response, which may offset increases in capacity. Early detection and diagn…
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The Case For Animal Rights Open
In the space I have at my disposal here I can only sketch, in the barest outline, some of the main features of the book Its main themes-and we should not be surprised by this-involve asking and answering deep, foundational moral questions …
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Introducing the “15-Minute City”: Sustainability, Resilience and Place Identity in Future Post-Pandemic Cities Open
The socio-economic impacts on cities during the COVID-19 pandemic have been brutal, leading to increasing inequalities and record numbers of unemployment around the world. While cities endure lockdowns in order to ensure decent levels of h…
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15. The Death of the Author Open
In his story Sarrasine Balzac, describing a castrato disguised as a woman, writes the following sentence: ‘This was woman herself, with her sudden fears, her irrational whims, her instinctive worries, her impetuous boldness, her fussings, …
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The paradox of irrigation efficiency Open
Higher efficiency rarely reduces water consumption
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Dear Science and Other Stories Open
In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography, and black feminism as well as a mix of me…
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Denudation of metal powder layers in laser powder bed fusion processes Open
Understanding laser interaction with metal powder beds is critical in predicting optimum processing regimes in laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing of metals. In this work, we study the denudation of metal powders that is observe…
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A Learned Representation For Artistic Style Open
The diversity of painting styles represents a rich visual vocabulary for the construction of an image. The degree to which one may learn and parsimoniously capture this visual vocabulary measures our understanding of the higher level featu…
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Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams Open
This volume is the first comprehensive synthesis of economic, political, and cultural theories of value. David Graeber reexamines a century of anthropological thought about value and exchange, in large measure to find a way out of ongoing …
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds Open
'Required reading for anyone remotely curious about how they came to be remotely curious' Observer 'Enthralling' Spectator What is human consciousness and how is it possible? These questions fascinate thinking people from poets and painter…
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Multispecies Studies Open
Scholars in the humanities and social sciences are experimenting with novel ways of engaging with worlds around us. Passionate immersion in the lives of fungi, microorganisms, animals, and plants is opening up new understandings, relations…
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Academic Ableism Open
Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to…
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Post-postfeminism?: new feminist visibilities in postfeminist times Open
This article contributes to debates about the value and utility of the notion of postfeminism for a seemingly “new” moment marked by a resurgence of interest in feminism in the media and among young women. The paper reviews current underst…
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The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948–1985 Open
works of James Baldwin constitute one of the major contributions American literature in the twentieth century, nowhere this more evident than in The Price of the Ticket, a compendium of nearly fifty years of Baldwin's powerful nonfiction w…
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Index modulation techniques for 5G wireless networks Open
The increasing demand for higher data rates, better quality of service, fully\nmobile and connected wireless networks lead the researchers to seek new\nsolutions beyond 4G wireless systems. It is anticipated that 5G wireless\nnetworks, whi…
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Emile : or On Education Open
Alan Bloom's new translation of Emile, Rousseau's masterpiece on the education and training of the young, is the first in more than seventy years. In it, Bloom, whose magnificent translation of Plato's Republic has been universally hailed …
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2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: Design, Modulation, and Challenges in Electrocatalysis Open
Hydrogen has been deemed as an ideal substitute fuel to fossil energy because of its renewability and the highest energy density among all chemical fuels. One of the most economical, ecofriendly, and high‐performance ways of hydrogen produ…
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SAMM: A Spontaneous Micro-Facial Movement Dataset Open
Micro-facial expressions are spontaneous, involuntary movements of the face when a person experiences an emotion but attempts to hide their facial expression, most likely in a high-stakes environment. Recently, research in this field has g…
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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements Open
In this chapter, we review the literature on social-movements and political parties interactions. We propose a research agenda that conceptualizes and empirically studies how movement-party interactions vary quantitatively and qualitativel…
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Scale: Discourse and Dimensions of Social Life Open
"Wherever we turn, we see diverse things scaled for us, from cities to economies, from history to love. We know scale by many names and through many familiar antinomies: local and global, micro and macro events. Even the most critical amon…
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From Moral Principles in Education (1909) Open
This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these The use an extensive effort to said there's a citizen. You might fe…
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Between Camps : Nations, Cultures and the Allure of Race Open
In this provocative book, now reissued with a new introduction, Paul Gilroy contends that race-thinking has distorted the finest promises of modern democracy. He compels us to see that fascism was the principal political innovation of the …
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Identity and Difference Open
This book provides a persuasive account of how identity and difference factor in the debate on the self in the humanities. It explores this topic by applying the question to fields such as philosophy,
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Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics Open
As social network sites like MySpace and Facebook emerged, American teenagers began adopting them as spaces to mark identity and socialize with peers. Teens leveraged these sites for a wide array of everyday social practices—gossiping, fli…
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Living a feminist life Open
In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed…
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Universality and diversity in human song Open
Cross-cultural analysis of song It is unclear whether there are universal patterns to music across cultures. Mehr et al. examined ethnographic data and observed music in every society sampled (see the Perspective by Fitch and Popescu). For…
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The affective, cultural and psychic life of postfeminism: A postfeminist sensibility 10 years on Open
This article revisits the notion of ‘postfeminism’ 10 years after its formulation in critical terms as a sensibility characterizing cultural life. The article has two broad aims: first to reflect upon postfeminism as a critical term – as p…
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The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project Open
As is well known Walter Benjamin devoted his unfinished magnum opus to arcades, the covered shopping galleries that emerged in the mid 19th century, as the central image revealing the economic, socio-political, and cultural features of tha…
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Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time Open
In this creative nonfiction essay, the author reflects on how 'crip time' has operated in their life, not only as a form of liberation, but also as a site of loss and alienation.
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress Open
If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred, and irrationality. But this is an illusion: a symptom of historical amnesia and statistical fallacies. If you follow the trend lines, you …