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Abstract Background and Aims The presence of sections or chapters on spontaneous human combustion in more than half of the key texts in English on the action of alcohol on the body and mind in the first half of the nineteenth century demonstrates the seriousness with which it was considered.
Iain Smith, Pam Lock
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Cuando decir Napoleón III significaba decir Hitler. Los biopics de Dieterle y Muni (1935-1939)
La productora de cine Warner Brothers se encargó de la creación de tres biopics sobre la vida de Louis Pasteur, Benito Juárez y Emile Zola. Esta trilogía producida durante los años previos de la II Guerra Mundial,periodo en el que se estableció de forma ...
Mauricio Sánchez Menchero
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A obra de Émile Zola no Brasil [PDF]
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, Florianópolis, 1999Pesquisa documental basica sobre a recepcao da obra de Emile Zola pela critica literaria ...
Silva, Eduardo Cesar Ferreira da
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New motherhood and eugenics in German women's political and popular fiction around 1900
Abstract Fictional texts have long functioned as a testing ground for new impulses in society. At the turn of the twentieth century many German feminists were demanding greater influence for women in public life not despite but because of their role as mothers.
Caroline Bland
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Rethinking the relation between human and nature: Insights from science fiction
Abstract Facing the accumulation of data that suggest near‐future dramatic changes in our way of life, current visions of transition are anchored in an incremental paradigm that excludes radical change. Using science fiction literature and cinema, this article aims to build such drastic change hypotheses and explore the political–ecological features of
Corinne Gendron, René Audet
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Skew‐symmetric vector fields on a CR‐submanifold of a para‐Kählerian manifold
We deal with a CR‐submanifold M of a para‐Kählerian manifold M˜, which carries a J‐skew‐symmetric vector field X. It is shown that X defines a global Hamiltonian of the symplectic form Ω on M⊤ and JX is a relative infinitesimal automorphism of Ω. Other geometric properties are given.
Adela Mihai, Radu Rosca
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The Political Scientist as a Critical Friend: A Comment on Flinders
Abstract In liberal democracies, the very essence of political science is to be a critical friend. It is both legitimate and rewarding to engage in policy relevant studies. It is not banal, technocratic, or oppressive to do research into pressing social issues and to provide advice on the effectiveness or desirability of policy interventions, or to ...
Mark Bovens
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Body size responses to urban temperature variations are driven by life history traits in spiders
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Urban ecosystems exhibit altered environmental conditions compared to the rural surroundings, including higher temperatures, the so‐called urban heat island (UHI) effect.
Valentin Cabon +5 more
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Cet article examine la représentation de la claustration subjective dans Les Rougon-Macquart d’Émile Zola. Il s’agit d’étudier la valeur symbolique des « demeures close[s] » (maisons, salons) : espaces contraints où sont renfermés les « documents » (ou «
Jeremy Worth
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On a class of even-dimensional manifolds structured by an affine connection
We deal with a 2m-dimensional Riemannian manifold (M,g) structured by an affine connection and a vector field 𝒯, defining a 𝒯-parallel connection. It is proved that 𝒯 is both a torse forming vector field and an exterior concurrent vector
I. Mihai, A. Oiagă, R. Rosca
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