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Building Back Better Following the 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake Sequence: Repair and Retrofit of Damaged Residential Reinforced Concrete High‐Rise Buildings

open access: yesEarthquake Spectra, Volume 42, Issue 1, February 2026.
Earthquakes have caused, and will continue to cause, damage to the built environment, resulting in casualties, economic losses, and long‐term societal impacts. One approach to decreasing future losses is limiting the damage that buildings experience during an earthquake and speeding up their recovery by following the “build back better” principle.
Nikola Blagojević   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sinapine Modulates Glycogen and Lipid Synthesis via IRS1–PI3K–AKT–GSK3β–GS Pathway in Insulin‐Resistant Models

open access: yesFood Science &Nutrition, Volume 14, Issue 1, January 2026.
This study combined network pharmacology, molecular docking, and in vitro (HepG2) and in vivo (T2DM mice) experiments to investigate sinapine's effect on insulin resistance. Sinapine was found to modulate the IRS1–PI3K–AKT–GSK3β–GS pathway. In vitro, sinapine improved glucose uptake, enhanced glycogen synthesis, and reduced lipogenesis and ROS. In vivo,
Tiancheng Xing   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cryptomimetic tropes in Yoshitomo Nakura’s Batman: Death Mask [PDF]

open access: yes
This article discusses the gothic and science fiction influences apparent in Yoshinori Natsume’s Batman: Death Mask with reference to the Derridean notion of the crypt and Jodey Castricano’s linguistic/structural model of cryptomimesis.
Round, Julia
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Love the State, but Hate (Neo)Colonialism? Discussing Sacrifice Zones and (Green) Colonialism in Political Ecology

open access: yesGeo: Geography and Environment, Volume 13, Issue 1, January‐June 2026.
Short Abstract By underwriting, or ignoring, the state's integral role within the colonial model, which continued to spread and consolidated through colonialism, academic production lends itself not only to facilitating extractivism, but to further the institutionalization of sacrifice areas.
Alexander A. Dunlap
wiley   +1 more source

Si me dan a elegir, me quedo con Gotham [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
No han transcurrido más que ocho años desde el cambio de milenio y ya parece que un abismo temporal nos separa. Nada hacía presagiar que los gustos de los 90 nos resultaran tan ajenos pocos años después, y sin embargo aquí estamos, renegando de ellos ...
Salgado de la Rosa, María Asunción
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'Dominoes' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The main component of this dissertation is a creative project and screenplay for a full feature film called 'Dominoes'. It follows the story of an unnamed teacher (referred to in the screenplay only as V) from one of Cape Town's lower income ...
Adriaanse, Jacobus Petrus
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Late modern ambiguity and gothic narratives of justice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper examines how representations of criminal justice today are often framed by and narrated through a Gothic Imagination. Often this trend is considered a cultural support for Punitive Populism and demand for vindictive sanctions especially ...
Sothcott, Keir
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Supervillanos muy reales: el uso político del villano en la trilogía de "El Caballero Oscuro" de Christopher Nolan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
It is almost a tradition that celluloid (or digital) villains are represented with some characteristics that remind us the real political enemies of the producer country of the film, or even enemies within the country according to the particular ideology
Rodriguez de Austria Giménez de Aragón, Alfonso M.
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A Collaborative Kalman Filter for Time-Evolving Dyadic Processes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
We present the collaborative Kalman filter (CKF), a dynamic model for collaborative filtering and related factorization models. Using the matrix factorization approach to collaborative filtering, the CKF accounts for time evolution by modeling each low ...
Gultekin, San, Paisley, John
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Spartan Daily, May 2, 1966 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1966
Volume 53, Issue 111https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/4845/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
core   +1 more source

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