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Abstraction Language: Digital/ Analog Dialogues

open access: yes, 2009
The connection between biological systems and machines is quickly becoming an important factor in designing the built environment. This paper explores the model of abstraction languages as a method to create communications between biological and ...
N. Yates, B. Cantrell
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Narration / abstraction : réflexions croisées entre médiévistes et contemporanéistes

open access: yesPerspective, 2022
Yve-Alain Bois   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Design Process Framework and Tools for Teaching and Practicing Biomimicry

open access: yesBiomimetics
Few design methods exist that provide clearly structured, visually intuitive, and easily monitored scaffolding for navigating the considerable complexity of biomimetic processes. To this end, we present a holistic biomimicry process framework informed by
Benjamin Linder, Jean Huang
doaj   +1 more source

Aristeus and Thanatos. Samuel Beckett’s Insect Poetics Creepy

open access: yesZoophilologica, 2019
In the broadest possible terms, this paper aims at exploring the relation between death and insects in Samuel Beckett with a special emphasis put on the fact that it is insects that form one of the most repetitive and complex animal figures in his oeuvre.
Michał Kisiel
doaj   +1 more source

Exercise Capacity, Physical Activity, Fatigue, and Neurocognitive Function in Adult Survivors of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are at risk of reduced exercise capacity, decreased physical activity levels, persistent fatigue, and neurocognitive deficits. The aim was to investigate exercise capacity and physical activity levels of adult survivors of childhood ALL and their associations with ...
Laura Jess   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Abstraction and its Limits: Finding Space for Novel Explanation. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Several modern accounts of explanation acknowledge the importance of abstraction and idealization for our explanatory practice. However, once we allow a role for abstraction, questions remain. I ask whether the relation between explanations at different
Knox, Eleanor
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“We Cannot Talk as a Family”: Complexities of Survivorship Communication Among Hispanic/Latino Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer, Parents, and Clinicians

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Young adult childhood cancer survivors (YA‐CCS) have an increased risk of treatment‐related health complications throughout their lives. Lifelong survivorship care is recommended, yet many YA‐CCS experience disruptions in care during pediatric‐to‐adult transitions and do not receive recommended survivorship care.
Kevin Shanchen Pu   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Daguerre’s Abstraction

open access: yes, 2016
The understanding of abstraction in so-called Western art theory is usually a narrative ‘towards’ purism or universalism. The impact of photography on these discourses is usually related to this in its function of representational realism, and attempt to
Bate, D.
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Classical Complement Pathway Inhibition in a Pediatric Patient With Refractory Immune Thrombocytopenia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric refractory immune thrombocytopenia (rITP) is generally characterized by persistent thrombocytopenia and failure to achieve a sustained response to multiple standard therapies. We report a 4‐year‐old female with congenital tufting enteropathy, post‐intestinal transplant patient on immunosuppressants, who developed severe rITP ...
Sarah Hsieh   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Geometry of Thought: Circling Through Concepts

open access: yesPhilosophies
The goal of this paper is to shed light on the nature of mathematical practice, i.e., on “doing mathematics”. It explores Gödel’s perspective, which offers an approach to understanding mathematics centered on concepts, objects, and structures.
Miloš Adžić   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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