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An Improved Algorithm for Generating Database Transactions from Relational Algebra Specifications [PDF]
Alloy is a lightweight modeling formalism based on relational algebra. In prior work with Fisler, Giannakopoulos, Krishnamurthi, and Yoo, we have presented a tool, Alchemy, that compiles Alloy specifications into implementations that execute against ...
Daniel J. Dougherty
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Glass Bellies and Artificial Wombs: Gender, Science, and Reproduction in Early Modern Alchemical Performance [PDF]
In this essay, I use the glass belly or vessel as a framework for examining the intersection of science, performance, and gender in the early modern period. I begin with the example of the glass belly because of how its form and functions intersect these
Jennifer Park
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Carl Gustav Jung et les Noces Chymiques
Two dreams had prefigured C.G. Jung's encounter with alchemy, but it is actually the Mystery of the Golden Flower that first led him to analyze the peculiarities of alchemy more closely.
Véronique Liard
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"A most exquisite fellow" — William White and an Atlantic world perspective on the seventeenth-century chymical furnace [PDF]
The seventeenth-century technologist and colonist William White (ca. 1600–73) has been cited as an alchemical tutor to Gabriel Plattes and George Starkey, and hailed as an early modern “wizard of industrial efficiency.” This study — the first that ...
White, Bruce, Woodward, Walter W.
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Gold and silver: perfection of metals in medieval and early modern alchemy
For a long time alchemy has been considered a sort of intellectual and historiographical enigma, a locus classicus of the debates and controversies on the origin of modern chemistry.
Ferdinando Abbri
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Filozofia przyrody w alchemii. Zarys związków
The aim of my discussion is to present the relationship between the research of natural philosophers and the development of the alchemical tradition. I refer to specific concepts formulated in the history of alchemy to argue that research in this field ...
Radosław Kazibut
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Purpose: A major thread in accounting literature, which has remained a contentious issue, is how accounting alchemy can be modeled. The paper builds on existing accrual models in proposing an accounting alchemy model and tests if it is still the right ...
Edesiri Godsday Okoro +1 more
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Nondestructive Raman investigation on wall paintings at Sala Vaccarini in Catania (Sicily) [PDF]
In this work, the results of a Raman campaign for studying seventeenth-century Sicilian frescoes, by using two portable Raman systems, equipped with different excitation sources (785 and 1064 nm), are proposed.
Agostino, Giuseppe +10 more
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Tackling concentrated worklessness: integrating governance and policy across and within spatial scales [PDF]
Spatial concentrations of worklessness remained a key characteristic of labour markets in advanced industrial economies, even during the period of decline in aggregate levels of unemployment and economic inactivity evident from the late 1990s to the ...
Beatty C +18 more
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Alchemical crossings in Psychology
The objective of this article is to discuss the contributions of Alchemy to the field of Psychology, especially for Analytical Psychology as a proposal of an Alchemical Psychology, whose representatives highlighted here are Carl Gustav Jung and James ...
Helton Marculino de Souza
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