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Arithmetic--some drill aspects [PDF]

open access: yes, 1927
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston ...
Finneran, Elizabeth Margaret
core   +1 more source

Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

The beast initiate: the lycanthropy of Heracles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The obscurantist Hellenistic poet Lycophron referenced the initiation of Heracles as a beast suckling the breast of the goddess Hera. This was the event that was the mythological origin of the Galaxy and of the lily flower that incarnated the same ...
Ruck, Carl
core   +2 more sources

Winston Churchill and France: A Certain Ideal

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines relations between Winston Churchill and France. It argues that Churchill was sympathetic to France and, in particular, unusual among Englishmen of his generation in being sympathetic to its political system, but also that this sympathy did not make Churchill consistent in his relations with France.
Richard Vinen
wiley   +1 more source

Sailing Through Setbacks—What Makes Personal Financial Resilience?

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate financial adaptation by young adults (18 to 40 years old) during a recent cost‐of‐living crisis in a developed economy. Interview, financial, demographic and psychographic data are brought together to shed new light on personal financial resilience, or the capacity to adapt to financial shocks.
Syed Shah   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

ANCIENTS ROOTS AND SEMANTICS FIELD OF ETHNONIM KAS/KAŠ

open access: yesКавказология, 2019
The use of the root morpheme kas for the name of the ancient and medieval peoples of Eurasia is considered: helmets, Kassites, Caspians, Circassians. A connection is established between this ethnonym and the god of the moon in the Hutt, Cascian, Cassite ...
B. Kh. BGAZHNOKOV
doaj   +1 more source

National identity after conquest

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Conquering powers routinely adopt state‐directed nationalization projects that seek to make the boundaries of the nation coterminous with the (newly expanded) boundaries of the state. To this end, they implement policies that elevate the economic status of individuals who embrace the occupier's national identity and discriminate against those ...
Christopher Carter, Daniel W. Gingerich
wiley   +1 more source

“Tool of Enlightenment”: The Dreamachine’s Effects for Individual Autonomy

open access: yesRefract, 2018
Brion Gysin (1916-1986) was an artist, poet, lyricist, linguist, musician, and performer, but first and foremost he was an experimenter and innovator.
Katie Oates
doaj   +1 more source

Poetics of Acculturation: Early Pure Land Buddhism and the Topography of the Periphery in Orikuchi Shinobu’s The Book of the Dead

open access: yesJapanese Language and Literature, 2020
The article examines Orikuchi Shinobu’s novella, Shisha no sho [The Book of the Dead] (1939), as a discursively constructed amalgamation of multiple cultural and historical sources.
Ikuho Amano
doaj   +1 more source

Occlusion Handling using Semantic Segmentation and Visibility-Based Rendering for Mixed Reality

open access: yes, 2017
Real-time occlusion handling is a major problem in outdoor mixed reality system because it requires great computational cost mainly due to the complexity of the scene.
Fukiage, Taiki   +4 more
core   +1 more source

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