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Scalable Computation of Topological Abstractions for Scalar Data

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Topological data analysis has become an important tool for large scale scalar data analysis and visualization, efficiently extracting the inherent structure and features of interest of the data. However, with growing dataset sizes and complexity, it is increasingly becoming infeasible to compute topological abstractions of interest in serial ...
M. Will, J. Lukasczyk, J. Tierny, A. Gyulassy, G. H. Weber, H. Carr, C. Garth   +6 more
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Science and Ideology: The Case of Cosmology in the Soviet Union, 1947–1963

Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum, 2013
Ideological considerations have always influenced science, butrarely as directly and massively as in the Soviet Union during the early Cold War period, when cosmology was among the sciences that became politicized.
Kragh, Helge
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Un/Learning Adult Frames of Reference in Death Enquiries: Thinking~With a Picturebook, Philosophical Animism and Ontological Tact

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Developmental psychology continues to shape how adults engage with children about death and dying. This influences whether children are included in rituals surrounding human and other‐than‐human bodies. Figurations of the innocent, immature and vulnerable child still dominate adult imaginaries of young children's understandings of mortality ...
Karin Murris, Joanna Haynes, Joanne Peers   +2 more
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Inflationary Reheating to Preheating—A Personal Account

Universe
This is a personal account of the early work that led to what is now known as the preheating stage of inflationary cosmology. The broader applicability of the underlying instability mechanisms in cosmology are indicated.
Robert Brandenberger, Jennie Traschen
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Objects of Affection: Deathly Encounters With Taxidermy, Stuffed Toys and Atmospheres

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores how children and young people relate to death through affective atmospheres and embodied, imaginative encounters with taxidermy and stuffed toy animals. Using arts‐based research (ABR), we explore how death, affective atmospheres, empathy and materiality entangle during multispecies relations.
Rachel Sinquefield‐Kangas, Verneri Valasmo, Varpu Mehto   +2 more
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The obsolescence of protected area categories in a polycrisis world

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Current global conservation models face significant limitations in addressing the global polycrisis, and the constraints of the International Union for Conservation of Nature protected area (PA) classification system are part of the issue. The principles of the new conservation paradigm—governance, equity, and interculturality—are not viable ...
Pamela Esther Degele
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Similar or Different? Configurations of Authenticity Across Museum Types

Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Authenticity is traditionally regarded as playing a crucial role in museums, science centers, and memorials. However, despite this fact, authenticity has very different meanings in different (institutional) settings. This complicates shared communications across museum practices.
S. Schwan, S. Bahnsen, C. Eschenfelder, B. Garsoffky, P. Gerjets, M. Gorman, C. Hampp, L. Kampschulte, O. Köller, C. Kuchler, A. M. Land‐Zandstra, S. Moser, T. Moussouri, P. Pierroux, C. Sichau, I. Specht, M. Storksdieck, M. Xanthoudaki, D. Lewalter   +18 more
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1172. Dendrobium chryseum Rolfe

Curtis's Botanical Magazine, EarlyView.
Summary Dendrobium chryseum is a widespread orchid from continental tropical Asia and Taiwan with a confused taxonomical history. In addition to its horticultural merits and its use in Traditional Chinese Medicine, this species has significant cultural importance among the Tsou people of Taiwan. Notes on pollination, cultivation, taxonomy, distribution,
André Schuiteman, Ayumi Terada, Jer‐Ming Hu, Bala Kompalli, Masumi Yamanaka   +4 more
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Marxism and Decolonizing Praxis: From Decolonial Misinterpretations to Marxist Contributions

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article intervenes in postcolonial and decolonial critiques that portray Karl Marx and Marxism as intrinsically Eurocentric and inattentive to race, colonialism and non‐European revolutionary agency. It argues that such critiques often rely on selective, historically limited interpretations that overlook Marx's later writings, in which he
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
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Contextualising Mental Privacy in South Africa: Legal, Ethical, and Socio‐Cultural Considerations With Policy Recommendations

Developing World Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mental privacy is a growing concern as neurotechnologies and digital mental health tools collect and process sensitive brain‐related data. In South Africa, cultural and religious diversity adds complexity to protecting mental privacy, with traditional healing practices, communal decision‐making, and spiritual beliefs influencing mental health ...
Marietjie Botes, Melodie Labuschaigne, Camille Casteleyn, Becky Inkster, Mark Sheppard   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source