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The Mask Strikes Back: Blackness as Aporia in Moby-Dick and Benito Cereno

open access: yes, 2017
What is the American Gothic a reaction to? Whereas other thinkers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne locates the building blocks of the American Gothic in Puritan Christianity or Amerindian Genocide, I argue that Melville posits the genesis of chattel slavery ...
Clarke, Jerome D.
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A micro view on home equity withdrawal and its determinants. Evidence from Dutch households [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Home equity is the most important part of a household portfolio, but only recently has it become more accessible through innovations in the mortgage market and financial deregulation.
Ebner, André
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Powerful yet challenging: mechanistic niche models for predicting invasive species potential distribution under climate change

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Risk assessments of invasive species present one of the most challenging applications of species distribution models (SDMs) due to the fundamental issues of distributional disequilibrium, niche changes, and truncation. Invasive species often occupy only a fraction of their potential environmental and geographic ranges, as their spatiotemporal dynamics ...
Erola Fenollosa   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cartas inéditas de Menéndez Pidal a Benito Coll Altabás [PDF]

open access: yes, 1983
Se analizan las cartas-cuestionario remitidas por Ramón Menéndez Pidal a Benito Coll Atabás. Con ellas consiguió materiales sobre el habla del Alto Aragón y se plantean, entre otros, los problemas de límites dialectales en las hablas ribagorzanas.The ...
Viudas Camarasa, Antonio
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A Dual Band Belt Antenna [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper presents an antenna structure design using a standard belt for wearable applications. The antenna arouse from a body of research work on wearable metallic structures functioning as antennas for wireless on-body ...
Batchelor, John C.   +1 more
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Previable PROM in twins: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

open access: yesInternational Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Previable prelabor rupture of membranes (PROM) in twin pregnancies is a rare but high‐risk condition associated with substantial neonatal mortality and maternal morbidity. Management options include expectant management and selective reduction, though guidance is limited and based primarily on singleton data.
Marwan Odeh   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamics of piecewise contractions of the interval

open access: yes, 2012
We study the asymptotical behaviour of iterates of piecewise contractive maps of the interval. It is known that Poincar\'e first return maps induced by some Cherry flows on transverse intervals are, up to topological conjugacy, piecewise contractions ...
ARNALDO NOGUEIRA   +2 more
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Always Be Prepared: Lessons Learned From Risk‐Coping Strategies of Thai Households in the Wake of Two Major Economic Crises

open access: yesInternational Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper aimed to comparatively examine the function of three risk‐coping strategies, namely savings, borrowings, and work‐hour adjustments, during two major economic crises in Thailand. Using the Socioeconomic Survey (SES) collected by the National Statistical Office (NSO) in Thailand, we examined data from the 1998 financial crisis and the
Aeggarchat Sirisankanan, Papar Kananurak
wiley   +1 more source

Paradox in Paradise: Hidden Health Inequities on California's Central Coast [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Examines the health of people living in the Central Coast region of California, and provides data about the area's increasingly diversified population and challenged health delivery ...
Amy Gilman, Joel Diringer
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Singularities of locally acyclic cluster algebras

open access: yes, 2014
We show that locally acyclic cluster algebras have (at worst) canonical singularities. In fact, we prove that locally acyclic cluster algebras of positive characteristic are strongly F-regular.
Benito, Angélica   +3 more
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