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Semiotics of Otherness in Japanese Mythology
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2017 This article examines the tropes of "otherness" embedded in Japanese myths and legends in which the protagonist has a physical or intellectual disability to uncover the sociohistorical attitudes toward such people in Japan. Using the theory of semiotics,
Yoshiko Okuyama
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The celestial city brought down to earth : Dmitrij Cernákov's interpretation of Rimskij-Korsakov's opera the invisible city of Kitež and the Maiden Fevronia [PDF]
, 2017 Rimsky-Korsakov's penultimate opera is tied to the symbolist movement in fin de siècle Russia. Although the composer did not intend it as a mystical work in the wake of Wagner's Parsifal, his symbolist collaborators invested much symbolist thinking in ...
Maes, Francis
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Frozen Differential Scattering in Reconfigurable Complex Media
Laser &Photonics Reviews, EarlyView.A localized perturbation universally results in a rank‐one update of the scattering matrix of any complex medium. The resulting differential output wavefront is “frozen”: its spatial pattern is fixed (agnostic to the input wavefront). Experiments with a programmable‐metasurface‐parametrized wireless link validate frozen differential scattering and ...
Philipp del Hougne
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Hippocrates: facts and fiction
Acta Theologica, 2005 Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, is reviewed as a historical person and in terms of his contribution to medicine in order to distinguish fact from fiction.
Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers
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Bottom-up radio: creating a new media format using living lab research [PDF]
, 2013 This study resulted in the creation of a new media format for urban youth, adopting a living lab-approach, as current studies have shown that this group is currently not reached with the contemporary media offer.
All, Anissa +2 more
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, 2016 There is no generally accepted definition for a virtual world, with many complimentary terms and acronyms having emerged implying a virtual world. Advances in systems architecture techniques such as, host migration of instances, mobile ad-hoc networking,
Nevelsteen, Kim J. L.
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On the botanical history and nomenclature of the New World genus Piscidia (Fabaceae)
Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.Piscidia L. (Fabaceae) is a New World genus with nine recognized taxa (seven species and two varieties). The previous nomenclatural revisions, made in 1910 and in 1969, are revisited here. The names Derris grandifolia Heyde & Lux ex Donn.Sm. and P. cubensis Urb. required step II lectotypifications, with an epitype for the latter name.
Camila Sánchez‐ Vega +4 more
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Fééries, 2015 Sylvie is a fairy tale, whose main character is herself a fairy. A modern-day fairy, after the Second Empire has just been established and the political horizon has collapsed.
Pierre Laforgue
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American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales: An Encyclopedia of American Folklore
, 2016 Folklore has been a part of American culture for as long as humans have inhabited North America, and increasingly formed an intrinsic part of American culture as diverse peoples from Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania arrived.
Dattolo, Danielle R. +6 more
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Pest Management Science, EarlyView.Here, we report for the first time a target site mutation in the CYP51 gene of the oilseed rape phoma stem canker fungus Plenodomus biglobosus (Leptosphaeria biglobosa) that is associated with decreased sensitivity to sterol demethylation inhibitor fungicides.
Kevin M King +4 more
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