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Martial Arts Studies, 2023 The 16th century Chinese fight book Jian Jing 劍經 (Sword Treatise), written by the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) general Yu Dayou 俞大猷, is the oldest available comprehensive work on Chinese fencing theory. This paper argues that the treatise uses the terms gang 剛 (hard) and rou 柔 (soft) as technical terms to label tactics what are known as first and second ...
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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Immortal passados: early modern England’s Italianate fencing jargon on page and stage
, 2022 International audienceThis chapter shows how, as Italian fencing was gaining ground in England, Italian vocabulary connected with the art was imported into English, through translation but also by cultural transfers involving lexical borrowings.
Sansonetti, Laetitia
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100 years of GAMM: Motivation, history and achievements
ZAMM - Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics / Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, Volume 106, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract The International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, GAMM) was founded in 1923 with the goal to strengthen the field of scientific engineering by the foundation of an Engineering Association with strong scientific contacts to Applied Mathematics.
Wolfgang Ehlers
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The Contribution of Domestic and International Conflict In Renaissance Italy to the Sport of Fencing
, 2023 Fencing, the art or practice of attack and defense with the foil, épée, or saber, has progressed over hundreds of years from the warfare of Germanic tribes to a regulated Olympic sport.
Nason, Amelia E
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ChemPhysChem, Volume 26, Issue 21, November 5, 2025.Scheme for the labeling of the cell membrane. The scattering tags, gold nanoparticles of two different diameters (Ø20 nm and Ø40 nm), target the biotinylated lipids inserted in the cellular membrane, owing to their streptavidin coating. The possible, although not certain, effects of cross‐linking are also highlighted (dashed line).
Francesco Reina +2 more
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Les femmes et les « sports » du gentilhomme de l’époque médiévale à l’époque moderne [PDF]
, 2006 International audienceRomanesque literature began to address the theme of aristocratic education between the twelth and fifteenth centuries. Knightly training, in which physical activities (horse-back riding, ring races or quintains, fencing) played a ...
Serge Vaucelle, Vaucelle, Serge
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Ground zero soil sampling: Trinity, 1945
Geology Today, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 137-146, July/August 2025.At Trinity—the world's first nuclear weapons testing site—large quantities of soil were drawn into the fireball to redeposit either downwind as radioactive fallout or in the near‐field as a unique, anthropogenic silicate glass trinitite. Manhattan Project physicists and chemists came to see soils at the Trinity site as a useful medium to assess the ...
Edward R. Landa
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The history of fencing through its treatises (XIV-XVII centuries) [PDF]
, 2019 RESUMEN: En el presente trabajo se analizan los datos proporcionados por los diversos tratados de esgrima conservados hasta nuestros días. Se sigue un recorrido cronológico partiendo del primero de los manuales históricos conservados para apreciar su ...
López Vallejo, Miguel
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Is Hume's Law a valid argument against empirical bioethics?
Bioethics, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 512-518, June 2025.Abstract If “no ought from is,” how can bioethics be empirical? Despite the widespread recognition that we can integrate empirical and normative, Hume's Law is still often claimed to pose logical limitations to empirical bioethics. Is Hume's Law a valid argument against empirical bioethics? I argue that we have reasons to answer no.
Paolo Corsico
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