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Study on a Camber Adaptive Winglet [PDF]
2018 Applied Aerodynamics Conference, 2018 Morphing structures are devices intended to be implemented in specific parts of the aircraft such to improve some aspects of the flight such as performance and maneuverability. More specifically for the wings, the in flight capability of adaptation of airfoil profile and control surfaces bring possibility to the aircraft operate at optimum performance ...
Eguea, João Paulo +5 more
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Reductionism in the study of enzyme adaptation [PDF]
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2021 One of the principal goals of comparative biology is the elucidation of mechanisms by which organisms adapt to different environments. The study of enzyme structure, function, and stability has contributed significantly to this effort, by revealing adaptation at a molecular level.
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La valle dell’Eden: Steinbeck, Kazan, Latella
Iperstoria, 2020 The following essay interprets Latella’s theatrical version of Steinbeck’s novel (La valle dell’Eden) as an opportunity to reconsider some key elements of the literary text whose recognition in American Studies has been neglected up to a recent time.
Vincenzo Maggitti
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Aiding and Abetting Survival: Americanizing Robinson Crusoe through Adaptation
Litera: Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022 Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) has been insistently adapted to both the big screen and TV throughout the 20th century and well into the 21st, the earliest version dating back to 1902 and the most recent to 2016.
Defne Ersin Tutan
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Negotiating an Approach to Trauma: where Visual Media and Literature Diverge [PDF]
Acta Iassyensia ComparationisThis article aims to uncover and assess some of the most prominent techniques used in the contemporary portrayal of trauma, by analyzing the works of Hanya Yanagihara, Koen Tachelet and Ivo van Hove for the novel A Little Life and its stage adaptation ...
TELIBAN CĂTĂLINA-DIANA
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Simulating the Tone River eastward diversion project in Japan carried out 4 centuries ago [PDF]
Hydrology and Earth System SciencesThe Tone River is the largest river in Japan, flowing from the Kanto Plain westward to the Pacific Ocean. The river originally flowed southward, entering Tokyo Bay, but the Tone River eastward diversion project (TREDP) in the 17th century and many later ...
J. Trošelj, J. Trošelj, N. Hanasaki
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Towards an Ecocritical Adaptation Studies
Adaptation, 2023 Abstract Arguments that ‘it is time for adaptation studies to take an x turn’ have proliferated in the inevitably methodologically eclectic field of adaptation studies. However, there are still methodologies with which adaptation studies has not yet engaged in detail, and which could be enriched by certain existing adaptation studies ...
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David Lynch’s Influence on David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
Cinergie, 2017 This essay investigates the influence of the films of David Lynch on David Foster Wallace’s major novel Infinite Jest. It is organized in two sections. Section one illustrates Wallace’s views on what real art should be, as they are expressed in his two ...
Paolo Pitari
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FermentationGoats are considered to be the ideal climate-resilient animal species in the tropics. Fewer studies are documented assessing the heat stress response of caprine ruminal microbiota, which can also be a crucial indicator of the resilience and/or ...
Mullakkalparambil Velayudhan Silpa +4 more
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Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2020 This article examines the role that conversations between children and adults play in Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield (1850), and late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century adaptations of it for a child audience.
Hannah Field
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