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Sanskrit Recension of Persian Astronomy

History of Science in South Asia, 2022
In the history of exchanges between Islamicate and Sanskrit astral sciences, Nityānanda's Siddhāntasindhu (c. early 1630s), composed at the court of the Mughal emperor Shāh Jahān (r.
Anuj Misra
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The Underestimation Of Egocentric Distance: Evidence From Frontal Matching Tasks [PDF]

, 2011
There is controversy over the existence, nature, and cause of error in egocentric distance judgments. One proposal is that the systematic biases often found in explicit judgments of egocentric distance along the ground may be related to recently observed
A Higashiyama, A Higashiyama, AS Gilinsky, CA Levin, CE Granrud, FH Durgin, FH Durgin, FH Durgin, FH Durgin, Frank H. Durgin, H Wallach, HA Sedgwick, J Andre, J Purdy, JA Silva Da, JA Thomson, JF Norman, JF Norman, JF Norman, JJ Gibson, JJ Rieser, JK Witt, JM Beusmans, JM Foley, JM Foley, JM Loomis, JM Loomis, JM Loomis, JM Loomis, JM Loomis, John Phillips, JS Lappin, JW Philbeck, JW Philbeck, JW Philbeck, L Matin, M Teghtsoonian, N Kudoh, R Teghtsoonian, RM Messing, RP O’Shea, TL Ooi, TL Ooi, VR Carlson, Zhi Li   +44 more
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Decline in academe

International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2007
When universities became corporate universities, the constraints that defined universities changed. The values of the old university, of scholarship, truth and freedom, were replaced by the values of the market. Education became a product, the university a firm, and the university system an industry.
Sawyer, Kim R., Johnson, Jackie, Holub, Mark   +2 more
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Low-mass X-ray binaries and globular clusters streamers and ARCS in NGC 4278 [PDF]

, 2014
We report significant inhomogeneities in the projected two-dimensional spatial distributions of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) and globular clusters (GCs) of the intermediate mass elliptical galaxy NGC 4278.
Arnold, Belokurov, Boroson, Brassington, Brassington, D'Abrusco, de Vaucouleurs, G. Fabbiano, Garcia, Kormendy, Kundu, Lauer, Moore, N. J. Brassington, Nieto, Pellegrini, Pellegrini, R. D'Abrusco, Strader, Strader, Terashima, Tonry, Verbunt, Zezas, Zwicky   +24 more
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The Large Quasar Reference Frame (LQRF) - an optical representation of the ICRS

, 2009
The large number and all-sky distribution of quasars from different surveys, along with their presence in large, deep astrometric catalogs,enables the building of an optical materialization of the ICRS following its defining principles.
A. H. Andrei, Adelman-McCarthy, Andrei, Arias, Arias, Assafin, Assafin, C. Barache, D. N. da Silva Neto, da Silva Neto, da Silva Neto, F. Taris, Feissel, Fey, Fienga, Fienga, Hoeg, Hoeg, J. I. B. Camargo, J. L. Penna, J. Souchay, Lasker, M. Assafin, Ma, Monet, N. Zacharias, Perryman, Petrov, Pier, R. L. Smart, R. Vieira Martins, S. Bouquillon, Schwan, Souchay, Souchay, Taff, Taff, Véron-Cetty, Zacharias, Zacharias   +39 more
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Calibration and Stokes Imaging with Full Embedded Element Primary Beam Model for the Murchison Widefield Array [PDF]

, 2017
15 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in PASA. © Astronomical Society of Australia 2017The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), located in Western Australia, is one of the low-frequency precursors of the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA ...
Bell, M. E., Callingham, J. R., Colegate, T., Dwarakanath, K. S., For, Bi-Qing, Gaensler, B. M., Hancock, P. J., Hindson, L., Hurley-Walker, N., Johnston-Hollitt, M., Kapińska, A. D., Kaplan, David L., Lenc, E., McKinley, B., Morgan, J., Offringa, A. R., Pindor, B., Procopio, P., Sokolowski, M., Staveley-Smith, L., Sutinjo, A. T., Ung, D., Wayth, R. B., Wu, C., Zheng, Q.   +24 more
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The reduction of geomagnetic data for the territory of Latvia to the epoch 2021.5

Geodesy and Cartography
The article describes the sources of geomagnetic data, the reduction of geomagnetic data for the territory of Latvia to the epoch 2021.5, the history of previous magnetic observations in Latvia, the information available in the State Geodetic Network ...
Lubova Sulakova, Janis Kaminskis
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OPTIMIZATION OF BLADE DEFLECTION BASED ON HYBRID GENETIC ALGORITHM

Jixie qiangdu, 2021
In order to improve the energy utilization rate of the vertical axis variable angle of attack turbine,a mathematical optimization model of the blade declination angle variation rule was established,using the blade declination angle change with the ...
WANG YongDing, QIAN YingJuan
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Kataphlôros ou Kataphlôron: Notes sur un patronyme Byzantin [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2013
The byzantine family name “Kataphloron” of civil and military officials (from the 10th to the beginning of the 13th century) has been attested in sources in various forms.
Loukaki Marina
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Nāgaraka in the Kāmasūtra: An Introduction to Masculinity in Early India

Masculinities and Social Change, 2021
The idea of masculinity is malleable in the Kāmasūtra. This study pinpoints the factors that build or refashion masculinity. It hinges on the economic stability or declination, and undergoes changes accordingly.
Sukhdev Singh
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