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Going Beyond Woodward and Hoffmann's Electrocyclizations and Cycloadditions: Sigmatropic Rearrangements**

open access: yesThe Chemical Record, Volume 24, Issue 12, December 2024.
Even after Woodward and Hoffmann had determined the orbital symmetry mechanism of electrocyclizations and cycloadditions, it was not evident to either of them that a further mechanistic problem awaited. But Hoffmann's curiosity about the mechanism of the Cope reaction led him down a winding, nonlinear path that eventually resulted in the definition of ...
Jeffrey I. Seeman
wiley   +1 more source

Creator’s freedom. Schulz’s late projects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The article discusses the idea of creation coined by authors descended from the same, Austro-Hungarian cultural field, by: Bruno Schulz, Joseph Roth and Gustav Meyrink. Austro-Hungarian Monarchy created its own mithology based on nostalgia for the World,
Szyszka vel Syska, Monika
core   +2 more sources

Language as Communication vs. Language as Art: JRR Tolkien and early 20th-century radical linguistic experimentation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article situates Tolkien’s “A Secret Vice” (and its accompanying notes and papers) within the cultural and intellectual milieu of the early 20th century.
Fimi, Dimitra
core   +3 more sources

"Let us make ROBOT in our image, according to our likeness" : an examination of robots in several science fiction films through the christian concept of the "image of God" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The paper examines representations of robots in several films: Bicentennial Man (1999), Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) and Chappie (2015) in the light of the Christian concept of imago Dei.
Kwiatkowski, Fryderyk
core   +1 more source

Style and mimesis in the name of Walter Benjamin [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This study locates the consistency of Benjamin’s philosophy in its deployment of style. Since the style of his philosophy corresponds to its object, it always manifests differently.
Palmer, F., Palmer, F.
core  

What Does “Psalm” Mean in Hebrew? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
It is generally believed that the psalm is an intimate communication between the individual and God. The interdisciplinary semiotic approach reveals a string of meanings and conditions for the Hebrew text: 1. In Hebrew the word psalms [tehilмm] derivates
Almalech, Mony
core  

"Can Basel II Enhance Financial Stability?: A Pessimistic View" [PDF]

open access: yes
Even as the United States enjoys an economic expansion, there is an undercurrent of concern among economic analysts who follow financial markets. Some feel that the expansion of the credit derivatives markets poses the threat of a crisis similar to the ...
L. Randall Wray
core  

Can Basel II enhance financial stability? A pessimistic view [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Even as the United States enjoys an economic expansion, there is an undercurrent of concern among economic analysts who follow financial markets. Some feel that the expansion of the credit derivatives markets poses the threat of a crisis similar to the ...
Wray, L. Randall
core  

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