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The women honoured in flowering plant genera: From myth to reality
Many flowering plant genera are named for people, but there is a gender gap in this naming, with only 6% of eponyms honouring women. Here we explore this gap by examining in detail women for whom plant genera are named. Our open shared dataset serves to make women honoured in plant genera more discoverable, resulting in further impact by allowing ...
Sabine von Mering +6 more
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"The prince of all the rookies :" remaking working class masculinity and heroism in Traffic in Souls [PDF]
textThis paper seeks to explore the role evolving masculinities played in the Progressive Era's white slavery panic through one of the period's most popular films: George Loane Tucker's Traffic in Souls and its ensuing novelization by Eustace Hale Ball ...
Cotter, Erin June
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Clip Voice: Misogyny and the Renegotiation of a Gendered Vocal Style in Chinese Digital Discourse
ABSTRACT The participatory culture of social media allows women's voices to be heard but also parodied and policed. On Chinese social media platforms, where performers rapidly adopt and transform vocal trends for engagement, discourse on gendered vocal styles has proliferated.
Zichuan Yu, Rebecca Lurie Starr
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Genre detection of web documents
Ο στόχος αυτής της εργασίας είναι η διερεύνηση τρόπων κατηγοριοποίησης Ιστοσελίδων του διαδικτύου με βάση το είδος τους. Η προσέγγιση που προτείνεται εδώ είαι να χρησιμοποιηθούν ως μέσο αναπαράστασης των ιστοσελίδων ν-γράμματα χαρακτήρων και HTML-tags και στην συνέχεια να γίνει κατηγοριοποίηση των δειγμάτων από ένα αυτόματο σύστημα μηχανικής μάθησης.
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Why Engineers Should Read More Novels
What do engineers do? And what should they work on? A surprising answer is outlined in this essay, which argues that reading novels holds the key for addressing both questions. Novels train the imagination as well as our ethical abilities – skills that are essential for developing future‐proof technologies.
Michael Kuhn
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Although the character of the “lady detective” is a staple of the cozy mystery genre, we contend that there are no great lady detectives to rival Holmes or Poirot.
Shelby Moser, Michel-Antoine Xhignesse
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Abstract Mentally ill defendants are regularly sentenced to death in Texas, the leading executioner in the United States. In this article, I explore the reasons for this phenomenon by analysing the arguments developed by prosecuting attorneys in capital punishment trials involving defendants who advance insanity or diminished capacity claims but are ...
CHLOÉ DEAMBROGIO
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Trends in contemporary Italian narrative 1980-2007 [PDF]
The ‘new Italian narrative’ that began to be spoken about in the 1980s was not associated with a single writer or movement but with an eclectic and varied production.
Ania, GF, Hallamore-Caesar, A
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Abstract This article explores male popular culture in Australia in the mid‐1940s, particularly men's magazines of the period, to illuminate aspects of the psycho‐sexual dimensions of Australian veterans returning to civil society. The sexual landscape of Australian society had undergone considerable transformation, especially through an increasing ...
Stephen Garton
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Some Weird Events Have Been Told in the Baker Street – 2nd Part [PDF]
The study analyses composition, motifs and stylistic structure of Doyle´s Holmes detective stories. The author of the study tries to determine their value in the context of their development within transformations of the detective genre.
Tomáš Horváth
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