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Abstract Coral reef monitoring techniques are in high demand to support conservation efforts in marine ecosystems. Noninvasively measuring the spectral reflectance of corals provides rich information about their health status. However, the lack of large‐scale, high‐quality coral spectral datasets prevents the application of data‐driven spectral ...
Kaizhang Kang, Wolfgang Heidrich
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave
ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
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The luminous life of Lilly Aphrodite
A literary historical novel about an orphan girl's journey from poverty to film stardom, set against the grand backdrop of World War I Berlin, the cabaret era, the run-up to World War II, and the innovations in art and industry that accompanied it all ...
Colin, Beatrice
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Secular painting in the Ionian islands and Italian art: Aspects of a multi-faceted relationship
The contribution of Italian art, especially Venetian, was decisive to the secularisation of art in the Ionian Islands and the shaping of the so-called Ionian School, in the context of a broader Western influence affecting all aspects of life and culture,
Aphrodite Kouria
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Beyond Substitution—An Antipositionalist's Guide to Subtraction—
ABSTRACT Existing accounts of relations do not properly account for variably polyadic relations: they fail to capture the relationship between completions of the same relation by different numbers of relata. This paper develops a fully general account of such relations by adding an operation of subtraction to the antipositionalist theory of relations ...
Jon Erling Litland
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Aphrodite statue, Aphrodisias Museum
A close-up shot of the statue of Aphrodite. Currently housed in the Aphrodisias Museum, the statue of Aphrodite was discovered in the Bouleuterion of agora. Severely damaged in the head, this statue was created in the 2nd century AD to decorate the house
Gonnet-Bağana, Hatice
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The Effect of Aphrodite on Orgasm and Sexual Desire in Menopausal Women: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Background & Aim: Lack of orgasm during intercourse and loss of libido in menopause is very common and can reduce womenchr('39')s quality of life. The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of Aphrodite on orgasm and sexual desire in ...
Simin Taavoni +2 more
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Downscaling precipitation over High-mountain Asia using multi-fidelity Gaussian processes: improved estimates from ERA5 [PDF]
The rivers of High-mountain Asia provide freshwater to around 1.9 billion people. However, precipitation, the main driver of river flow, is still poorly understood due to limited in situ measurements in this area.
K. Tazi +6 more
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Sex differences in brain glucose metabolism and Alzheimer's disease risk and progression
Abstract Sex differences are increasingly recognized as central to the biology of Alzheimer's disease (AD), yet the mechanisms through which they shape brain metabolism and disease vulnerability remain incompletely understood. Brain glucose hypometabolism is a core hallmark of AD and emerges decades before clinical decline, but accumulating evidence ...
Marjan Ramezan +4 more
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Poppaea Venus and the Ptolemaic Queens: An Alternative Biography
This article examines the presentation of Nero’s wife Poppaea in the Oxyrhynchus papyrus fragment recounting her apotheosis (P.Oxy. LXXVII 5105). The poem arguably connects Poppaea to several Ptolemaic queens through characterizing Poppaea as a devoted ...
Caitlin Gillespie
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