\u27Those Who Cling in Queer Corners To The Forgotten Tongues and Memories of an Elder Day\u27: J.R.R. Tolkien, Finns and Elves [PDF]
Those Who Cling in Queer Corners To The Forgotten Tongues and Memories of an Elder Day\u27 J.R.R. Tolkien, Finns and Elves Dr. Andrew Higgins In this paper I will explore how several historic, literary and mythic associations of the Finnish people with ...
Higgins, Andrew Scott
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Bifurcations analysis of turbulent energy cascade [PDF]
This note studies the mechanism of turbulent energy cascade through an opportune bifurcations analysis of the Navier--Stokes equations, and furnishes explanations on the more significant characteristics of the turbulence.
de Divitiis, Nicola
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When Languages Die: The Extinction Of The World\u27s Languages And The Erosion Of Human Knowledge [PDF]
In When Languages Die, K. David Harrison illustrates the individual face of language loss, as well as its global scale. Languages are the accretion of thousands of years of a people\u27s science and art - from observations of ecological patterns to ...
Harrison, K. David
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What Catholic educators can learn from the radical Christianity and critical pedagogy of Don Lorenzo Milani [PDF]
This paper exposes some of the ideas expressed or associated with the work of don Lorenzo Milani and the School of Barbiana and discusses them in the light of the teachings of the gospels.
Grech, Michael, Mayo, Peter
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A Thermal Plume Model for the Martian Convective Boundary Layer [PDF]
The Martian Planetary Boundary Layer [PBL] is a crucial component of the Martian climate system. Global Climate Models [GCMs] and Mesoscale Models [MMs] lack the resolution to predict PBL mixing which is therefore parameterized.
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Optimal Subharmonic Entrainment [PDF]
For many natural and engineered systems, a central function or design goal is the synchronization of one or more rhythmic or oscillating processes to an external forcing signal, which may be periodic on a different time-scale from the actuated process ...
Li, Jr-Shin, Zlotnik, Anatoly
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Oceanographic observations at the Amundsen sea shelf break [PDF]
Introduction: The continental shelf environment of the Amundsen and Bellingshausen seas differs markedly from that of the other circumpolar seas, where water temperatures are close to the surface freezing point throughout.
Banks, Christopher +5 more
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Boston University Symphony Orchestra, March 10, 2011 [PDF]
This is the concert program of the Boston University Symphony Orchestra performance on Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 8:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.
School of Music, Boston University
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Living with grace on the earth: the poetic voice in Antjie Krog’s <i>A change of tongue</i>
“A change of tongue”, Antjie Krog’s second creative non-fiction, articulates experiences of the postapartheid quotidian in two tongues: that of the journalist and that of the poet. This article examines Krog’s various instantiations of the poetic voice, and argues that the site of the body is crucial to Krog’s understanding of how languages and ...
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High Resolution Mapping in support of UNCLOS Article 76: Seeing the seafloor with new eyes [PDF]
Since 2003, the Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) has been conducting multibeam mapping of many U.S.
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