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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Mathematical model of independence of alternatives in the theory of ratings
Informatika, 2019 This paper considers the alternative theory of measurement - theory of ratings. The axiomatic definition of ranking is based on definitions from category theory.
V. M. Romanchak
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A New Kind of Aesthetics —The Mathematical Structure of the Aesthetic
Philosophies, 2017 This paper proposes a new approach to the investigation into aesthetics. Specifically, it~argues that it is possible to explain the aesthetic and its underlying dynamic relations with an~axiomatic structure (the octahedral axiom-derived category) based ...
Akihiro Kubota +3 more
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Empirical research often requires a method how to convert a deterministic economic theory into an econometric model. A popular method is to add a random error term on the utility scale. This method, however, violates stochastic dominance.
Pavlo R. Blavatskyy
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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The Euclidean Sectio Canonis. Introduction, Russian translation and notes [PDF]
SCHOLE, 2012 Although a work of several hands, rather then of Euclid (active around 300 BCE), this short treatise (an introduction and 20 propositions formulated in the manner of theorems, preserved independently and, partially and slightly differently, in Porphyry ...
Andrey Sсhetnikov
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The Automation of C Program Verification by Symbolic Method of Loop Invariants Elimination
Моделирование и анализ информационных систем, 2018 During deductive verification of programs written in imperative languages, the generation and proof of verification conditions corresponding to loops can cause difficulties, because each one must be provided with an invariant whose construction is often ...
Dmitry Kondratyev +2 more
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Review of 'John R Searle-Thinking About the Real World' by Franken et al eds. (2010)(review revised 2019) [PDF]
, 2019 This book is the result of Searle's stay in the Munster University Philosophy Dept in 2009 and all the papers except his introductory one and his final response are from persons associated with Munster.
Starks, Michael
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Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Quantifying and improving the environmental performance (EP) of agriculture has become an urgent research and policy priority. Over the past three decades, frontier‐based analytical frameworks have been widely applied to evaluate farm‐level EP.
Fissha Asmare +5 more
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Review of Meaning and the Growth of Understanding Wittgenstein's Significance for Developmental Psychology -- Chapman and Dixon Eds. (1987)(review revised 2019) [PDF]
, 2019 Although now over 25 years old, many of the essays are quite contemporary. As expected, none of the authors grasp the full relevance of W for the description of behavior, missing most of the points made in my comments above, his many examples of how S1 ...
Starks, Michael
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