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Homage to Ebola Fighters: Black Labor and Humanitarian Media Campaigns. [PDF]
Abstract During the Ebola outbreak that hit Guinea in 2014, most of the people employed at the Wonkifong Ebola treatment unit were from Africa or Cuba. Despite the recruitment of black personnel, the unit exposes how the humanitarian infrastructure exploited Guinean workers as if their lives were less vulnerable than those of the foreign personnel. The
Gomez-Temesio V.
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Parafoveal-on-foveal repetition effects in sentence reading: A co-registered eye-tracking and electroencephalogram study. [PDF]
Abstract When reading, can the next word in the sentence (word n + 1) influence how you read the word you are currently looking at (word n)? Serial models of sentence reading state that this generally should not be the case, whereas parallel models predict that this should be the case.
Mirault J +5 more
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Abstract This article argues that three prominent recent works of Los Angeles climate fiction—Maria Amparo Escandon's L.A. Weather (2021), Alexandra Kleeman's Something New Under the Sun (2021) and Paul Beatty's The Sellout (2016)—generate a sense of planetary responsibility.
Edwin Gilson
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The evidence of hearsay in criminal proceedings from Late Renaissance France
Abstract This article argues that Renaissance legal culture provided a robust means of evaluating the epistemological status of rumour, informed by the Roman law of proof. In order to do so, the article explores the meaning of hearsay evidence in criminal proceedings from late Renaissance France, focusing on a major series of interrogations for ...
Tom Hamilton
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Genre analysis of movies using a topic model of plot summaries
Abstract Genre plays an important role in the description, navigation, and discovery of movies, but it is rarely studied at large scale using quantitative methods. This allows an analysis of how genre labels are applied, how genres are composed and how these ingredients change, and how genres compare.
Paul Matthews, Kathrina Glitre
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Fluctuating formality: homeownership, inheritance, and the official economy in urban South Africa★
Abstract One of Malinowski's legacies was a sensitivity to the ways institutions unevenly shape lives and relationships. Taking his lead, this article develops an approach to the formal economy, combining, sharpening, and extending theories of state and market infrastructures in political and economic anthropology.
Maxim Bolt
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EACR 2024: Innovative Cancer Science, 10-13 June 2024, Rotterdam, Netherlands. [PDF]
Molecular Oncology, Volume 18, Issue S1, Page 1-495, June 2024.
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The McKinleys of Punch: Politics and the Press in Melbourne, 1870s to 1920s
This article re‐examines the Melbourne Punch (1855–1925; known simply as Punch from 1900) as a political weapon in the cut‐and‐thrust of Victorian, local, and national politics, in the hands of its longest‐serving, but least‐known proprietor, Alexander McKinley (1848–1927).
Richard Scully
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Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag untersucht Formen und Wege des Kulturtransfers zwischen Frankreich und Österreich, bzw. Deutschland, im Bereich der Pantomime, insbesondere unter dem Blickwinkel der „Texttheatralität“ (Poschmann). Bei vielen deutschsprachigen Pantomimenautoren ist die Begegnung mit der Pariser Pantomime, die 1888 mit der Gründung des ...
Catherine Mazellier‐Lajarrige
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Raccoon specimen, seed disperser through endozoochory. ABSTRACT Seed dispersal is a dynamic process through which diaspores (seeds or seed‐bearing fruits) are detached from the mother plant, transported to different sites in the landscape that offer physical protection, competitive advantages, or lower predation risk.
Fabián Alejandro Rubalcava‐Castillo +4 more
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