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Legal Phenomena, Knowledge, and Theory: A Cautionary Tale of Hedgehogs and Foxes [PDF]

, 2002
This article analyzes the susceptibility of areas of legal regulation to being organized or explained by top-down deductive theories of general applicability. It hypothesizes that at least three variables determine in part the likely relevance of general
Allen, Ronald Jay, Rosenberg, Ross M.
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Maty's Biography of Abraham De Moivre, Translated, Annotated and Augmented

, 2007
November 27, 2004, marked the 250th anniversary of the death of Abraham De Moivre, best known in statistical circles for his famous large-sample approximation to the binomial distribution, whose generalization is now referred to as the Central Limit ...
Bellhouse, David R., Genest, Christian
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"Hang the Flesh off the Bones": Cultivating an "Ideal Body" in Taijiquan and Neigong. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021
Ma X, Jennings G.
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«Il Fior di Battaglia» symbols: iconography of early XV century fencing treatise by Fiore dei Liberi

Text and Image: Essential Problems in Art History
Purpose. This article's purpose is the reconstruction of the creation context of the fencing treatise «The Flower of Battle» and renew some fragments from the Italian fencing master's life in the late 14th century - early 15th centuries with visual sources. Methods.
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Swift's razor [PDF]

, 2016
The razors, knives and “tools for cutting” that appear so often in Jonathan Swift’s writings represent linguistic instruments for the performance of speech acts.
Bullard, Paddy
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Toxicology and snakes in ptolemaic Egyptian dynasty: The suicide of Cleopatra. [PDF]

Toxicol Rep, 2021
Ana María R.
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Pop Star to Opera Star: labour, skill and value in musical performance [PDF]

, 2016
The British TV show Pop Star to Opera Star (2010/2011) was a contribution to a well-worn reality TV genre in which people are challenged to undertake a professional activity in which they have no prior experience.
Till, Nicholas
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Before Azaria: A Historical Perspective on Dingo Attacks. [PDF]

Animals (Basel), 2022
Brumm A.
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Towards the comprehension of fasciolosis (re-)emergence: an integrative overview. [PDF]

Parasitology, 2021
Alba A, Vazquez AA, Hurtrez-Boussès S.
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Making martial arts history matter [PDF]

, 2016
This paper examines key ways in which ideas such as ‘tradition’, ‘authenticity’, and ‘history’ are deployed in discourses around Asian martial arts. First introducing how such concepts are used in national contexts such as Korea and elsewhere in East ...
Bowman, Paul
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