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Chorwacki dramat wojenny [PDF]

open access: yesPoznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2013
Lidia Nowicka-Comber
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The absent presence of the deportation apparatus: methodological challenges in the production of knowledge on immigration detention

open access: yesSocial Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 619-634, August 2021., 2021
Due to the difficulties in accessing detention facilities, the discussion on immigration detention often draws on limited empirical data with varying degrees of attention paid to the heterogeneity of the detained population and their different stakes in an impending removal.
Jukka Könönen
wiley   +1 more source

The Death Penalty and Historical Change in Spain

open access: yesJournal of Historical Sociology, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 305-322, June 2021., 2021
Abstract This article studies the long duration of the death penalty in Spain until its abolition in the Constitution of 1978. After analysing the plurality of theoretical approaches and possibilities offered by archival sources and specialised historiography (particularly those produced by specialists in the history of law and social history), I ...
Pedro Oliver Olmo
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Politics by Other Means in South Africa Today

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, Volume 47, Issue S1, Page S126-S144, October 2020., 2020
Abstract Rick Abel's classic Politics by Other Means (1995) used South Africa to argue for law's ‘potential nobility’, but it did so avoiding a heroic mode characteristic of much anti‐apartheid writing. Abel showed how law could, with strenuous exertion, be turned into a defensive shield for the oppressed. As a sword, however, it was ‘two‐edged’.
PETER BRETT
wiley   +1 more source

Quantum vacuum photon-modes and superhydrophobicity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Nanostructures are commonly used for developing superhydrophobic surfaces. However, available wetting theoretical models ignore the effect of vacuum photon-modes alteration on van der Waals forces and thus on hydrophobicity.
Dellieu, Louis   +3 more
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Pseudologia Fantastica in the Emergency Department: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

open access: yesCase Reports in Psychiatry, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017
Psychiatrists commonly encounter deception in the emergency department. This article presents the case of a patient who presents to the emergency department with an unusual and elaborate web of deceptions along multiple themes including feigning medical illness, multiple losses, and grandiose academic and athletic achievements.
Robyn Thom   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Architecting Web Sites for High Performance

open access: yesScientific Programming, Volume 10, Issue 1, Page 75-89, 2002., 2002
Web site applications are some of the most challenging high‐performance applications currently being developed and deployed. The challenges emerge from the specific combination of high variability in workload characteristics and of high performance demands regarding the service level, scalability, availability, and costs.
Arun Iyengar, Daniela Rosu
wiley   +1 more source

Emphysema Then and Now

open access: yesCanadian Respiratory Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1, Page 21-39, 1994., 1994
The present definition or emphysema has three components: enlargement of airspaces. destruction or their walls and lack of fibrosis. Enlargement can be recognized by measuring the intcralvcolar wall distance or by comparing the airspaces under cnnsiJcration with adjacent or distant normal lung. Most recently.
William M Thurlbeck
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Stefan Themerson’s Opera (St. Francis & The Wolf of Gubbio or Brother Francis’ Lamb Chops) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The paper focuses on the experimental work of Stefan Themerson (St. Francis and The Wolf of Gubbio or Brother Francis’ Lamb Chops, an Opera in 2 Acts, text and music by Stefan Themerson, drawings by Franciszka Themerson, De Harmonie – Gaberbocchus Press,
Hejmej, Andrzej
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Zmowa kobiet? Inscenizacje feministyczne w polskim teatrze dwudziestolecia międzywojennego

open access: yesPrzestrzenie Teorii, 2015
The first wave of feminism in Poland consisted of a wide range of events. All women who were educated, independent, and professionally active and successful were regarded as feminists (regardless of their self-identification). Women of the theater, i.e.,
Diana Poskuta-Włodek
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