Cultural encounters are often being stylized not only as experiences of uncontrollability and unpredictability par excellence, but also as challenges to planning and predicting. The history, the different forms and the consequences of this phenomenon are
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Contrasted phylogeographic patterns of hydrothermal vent gastropods along South West Pacific: Woodlark Basin, a possible contact zone and/or stepping-stone. [PDF]
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World Literatures: Contact Zone
World Literatures will focus on the concept of the contact zone. What happens when cultures with different ideologies and norms come into contact with each other through exploration and colonization?
Braithwaite, Alisa Kim
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Closing Curved Crack in the Sheet Element under Action the Local Temperature Field
Local changes of temperature near to the end of a curvilinear crack are considered. The problem about balance of a curvilinear crack with in part contacting beach at action of the external stretching loadings, induced thermoelastic fields of stresses and
A.B. Mustafayev
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Research of Quality Control of Contact Zone After Heat Treatment of Hypoid Gear
For the hypoid gear, there is distortion in the heat treatment process, and the quality of the contact zone after heat treatment is poor. A method to analyze the contact zone offset by using the first-order relative tooth surface error of the main tooth ...
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Towards Analysis and Optimization for Contact Zone Temperature Changes and Specific Wear Rate of Metal Matrix Composite Materials Produced from Recycled Waste. [PDF]
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Hybrid zones have long been touted by plant evolutionary biologists as an unrivaled phenomenon through which the mechanisms of evolution may be studied as they are occurring.
Modliszewski, Jennifer Louise
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Morphological and Vocal Variation across a Contact Zone between the Chickadees Parus atricapillus and P. carolinensis [PDF]
This is the published version. Copyright Central Ornithology Publication OfficeA contact zone between Black-capped and Carolina chickadees (Parus atricapillus and P. carolinensis) exists in southwestern Missouri.
Tobey, Emily A. +2 more
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Numerical study on contact zone in an interfacial crack
This thesis presents an analysis for contact zone near an interfacial crack tip by using the commercial FEM software ANSYS 5.0 and 5.3. The numerical study with various parameters extended from elastic to elastic-plastic range.
Shen, Hongnian.
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Membership in the CFA zone : Odyssean journey or Trojan horse? [PDF]
For most of the 13 African members of the CFA Franc Zone, the 1980s have been a decade of slow or negative growth in per capita gross domestic product, worsening balance of payments, debt crises, financial crises declining competitiveness, and an ...
Devarajan, Shantayanan, de Melo, Jaime
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