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Interesting Classes of Surfaces

1999
In this chapter, we will introduce some classes of surfaces that are probably not very well described in the literature. Among them are the spiral and the so-called “helispiral” surfaces that are common in nature. We will present some approximations to horns of antelopes and shells.
Georg Glaeser, Hellmuth Stachel
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Estates, Classes and Interests

1999
Examining estates, classes and interests takes us right to the ‘fundamentals’ of British politics and raises questions about the political significance of those fundamentals. Britain’s economic and social history created some brute social facts that politicians have to accommodate.
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Social Class Identification and Class Interest in Taiwan

Comparative Sociology, 2002
AbstractAre social classes perceived as a meaningful source of identity in Taiwan? I explore this issue with data from a 1992 survey (N = 2,377) of the population of Taiwan. Respondents were asked, "If people in our society are divided into upper, upper middle, middle, lower middle, working and lower classes, which class do you think you belong to ...
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Class Interests, Class Politics and Welfare State Regime

The British Journal of Sociology, 1993
The question of the social bases for support of the welfare state has been a major concern of theoretical and practical arguments about the development of social policy. Some writers have argued that the (un)popularity of welfare services is trongly influenced by institutional regimes, which range from the universal to the residual type.
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Class Interests in Brazilian Archaeology

International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2002
Archaeology is a practice that exists within various social contexts. As such, the way it is practiced is dependent upon the class interests of those who fund and undertake archaeological investigations. These interests in turn can be influenced by existing political regimes.
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THE CURRICULUM AND CLASS INTERESTS

Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 1983
In this paper I want to discuss opinions about education held by people who are all influenced in important ways by a cluster of key marxist concepts and views...
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The Concept of Class Interest

Ethics, 1970
In various tones, in divers contexts, to one purpose or another, with greater or less frequency according to the times, we have heard bruited-about the concept of class interest. Or, at all events, we hear the term. But what is the concept? What does the term mean?
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Interesting class of quasilinear systems

Journal of Computational Physics
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The Concept of Class Interest

1979
The ‘polar’ model of class relationships is only a simplified way of describing elements of those phenomena which actually occur as complex class structures. In naming that relationship antagonistic, we may disregard its psychological aspects, since we are concerned neither with the psychological antagonism of individuals nor with the structure of ...
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The Public Interest Class Action

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
Public interest lawyers often bring large-scale cases against government defendants for injunctive relief as class actions. Until recently, their class certification motions routinely succeeded, enabling plaintiffs to obtain sweeping remedies that have required fundamental reforms to government policies and practices.
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