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Personnal recollections about the birth of string theory [PDF]
arXiv, 2008 Invited contribution to the collective book "The Birth of String Theory"
arxiv
On the concept of eugenics: preliminaries to a critical appraisal
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 1999 This paper's main issue is linked to what can be foreseen as the increasing capability of medical genetics to modify the genetic composition of the human species through direct interventions in the human genome for medical and non-medical purposes, i.e.,
Neri Demetrio
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Comparative Arguments and Ethical Analysis: Selective Abortion and Eugenics
Revista Filosofía UISThis article aims to ethically evaluate selective abortion and eugenics, as well as to analyze the practical feasibility of comparing both terms to legitimate, or not, the prohibition of this form of interruption of pregnancy.
Tomás Hernández Mora
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“Ableist Fragility” and Chronic Stress in a Non‐Autistic Parent Memoir from Germany1
The German Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This essay defines “ableist fragility” in the context of non‐autistic parenting of autistic children through an analysis of Tessa Korber's memoir Ich liebe dich nicht, aber ich möchte es mal können (2012). Ableist fragility draws directly from the term fragility in Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility (2018). Informed by anti‐racist and disability
Sonja Fritzsche
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Invariant measures involving local inverse iterates [PDF]
arXiv, 2009 We study some new invariant measures arising from local inverse iterates. Examples are also given.
arxiv
, 2017 The aim of this paper is to provide a compressive assessment of Thomas Nixon Carver’s thought - from his early formative years in the 1880s to his post WWII career as a journalist and pamphleteer.
L. Fiorito, C. Orsi
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História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2016 In this article, I analyze the dialogue and exchanges between Brazilian eugenicists and their counterparts abroad in the early decades of the twentieth century. Through an examination of Renato Kehl's and Edgard Roquette-Pinto's eugenics projects and the
Vanderlei Sebastião de Souza
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INSECT LIFE AND LETTERS: THE STUDIES OF HANNS HEINZ EWERS AND OTTO AND ROSE HECHT
German Life and Letters, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that vast histories of war and displacement in the twentieth century are connected to the small and almost unnoticeable lives of insects, and that philology has much to gain from paying attention to insect worlds. We examine two case studies: the work of the German entomologist Otto Hecht and his wife, Rose Caro Hecht, and ...
Alice Christensen, Ina Linge
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On Greedy Algorithms with bounded cumulative coherence [PDF]
arXiv, 2009 We discuss the upper and lower estimates for the rate of convergence of Pure and Orthogonal Greedy Algorithms for dictionary with bounded cumulative coherence.
arxiv
Prolegomena, 2002 The article describes a troubled history of eugenics in the US, from its beginnings at the end of the 19th century, through the whole of the 20th. It is a part of a larger historical study on eugenics. It focuses on Davenport, Laughlin, Estabrook and the
Darko Polsek
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