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Darwin, Polanski and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles: facts and metaphors
Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2010 This paper deals with Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Roman Polanski’s screen adaptation Tess; the pivotal role of Darwinian Inheritance theories is discussed in the novel and the film, with reference to major episodes such as the ...
Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard
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Journal of Cancer, 2019 Neuroblastoma is a pediatric cancer of embryonic origin from neural crest cells. Neuroblastoma has a great medical and social impact because it is occurring with major frequency in pre-scholar age with metastatic disease showing less than 40% of survival at 5-years.
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Give chance a chance: from coexistence to coviability in biodiversity theory [PDF]
Ecosphere, 2019 AbstractA large part of biodiversity theory is driven by the basic question of what allows species to coexist in spite of a confined number of niches. A substantial theoretical background to this question is provided by modern coexistence theory (MCT), which rests on mathematical approaches of invasion analysis to categorize underlying mechanisms into ...
Florian, Jeltsch +3 more
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Strategies and Outputs of the "Plan B". Agency in the Italian Contemporary Cinema
Cinergie, 2018 The article aims to analyse a thematic aspect of contemporary Italian cinema from Smetto quando voglio (2014) to The Place (2017): several films of the last years present characters who decide to restart their own lives, with which they are dissatisfied,
Andrea Rondini
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Was Prometheus Unbound by Chance? Risk, Diversification, and Growth
Journal of Political Economy, 1997 This paper offers a theory of development that links the degree of market incompleteness to capital accumulation and growth. At early stages of development, the presence projects limits the degree of risk spreading (diversification) that the economy can ...
D. Acemoğlu, Fabrizio Zilibotti
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The Role of a Personality in Historical and Political Process
Historia i Polityka, 2019 The article presents the analysis of such concepts as “historical regularity”, “chance” and “great personality”. It is stressed that while studying epistemological problems of historical science we must focus on the system categories being used in ...
Basil Kozma
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Distributionally Robust Chance-Constrained Energy Management for Islanded Microgrids
IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, 2019 With the development of smart grid, energy management becomes critical for reliable and efficient operation of power systems. In this work, we develop a chance-constrained (CC) energy management model for an islanded microgrid which includes distributed ...
Zhi-Chao Shi +3 more
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Chance-Constrained Sequential Convex Programming for Robust Trajectory Optimization
European Control Conference, 2020 Planning safe trajectories for nonlinear dynamical systems subject to model uncertainty and disturbances is challenging. In this work, we present a novel approach to tackle chance-constrained trajectory planning problems with nonconvex constraints ...
T. Lew, R. Bonalli, M. Pavone
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen +23 more
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Sobre a incerteza About uncertainness
Trans/Form/Ação, 2000 Este artigo expõe elementos da doutrina epistemológica de Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), denominada Falibilismo. Procura-se evidenciar como tal doutrina se desenvolve do interior de teorias metafísicas do autor, a exemplo de seu Evolucionismo e da ...
Ivo Assad Ibri
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