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A notion of graph likelihood and an infinite monkey theorem

open access: yes, 2013
We play with a graph-theoretic analogue of the folklore infinite monkey theorem. We define a notion of graph likelihood as the probability that a given graph is constructed by a monkey in a number of time steps equal to the number of vertices. We present
Banerji, Christopher R. S.   +2 more
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Are Wednesday's Children Full of Woe? Children's Differences in Personality Are Independent of Day of Birth

open access: yesJournal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Nursery rhymes, which are rich in literary devices, benefit children's language learning. Less is known about the influence that nursery rhymes' messages may have on children's development. We focused on “Monday's Child,” a popular nursery rhyme that alleges children's day of the week of birth forecasts their differences in ...
Emily Wood   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making the Old New Again Through the Process of Recombinant Innovation

open access: yesJournal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Academic Summary Recombinant innovation—the process through which atypical and unexpected combinations of knowledge generate novel outcomes—is a critical driver of organizational distinctiveness and market transformation. While prior research has focused on firm‐ and industry‐level mechanisms, less attention has been given to multilevel ...
Vittoria Magrelli   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pelaksanaan Perlindungan Hukum terhadap Folklore Motif Batik Khas Blitar [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Pada skripsi ini mengangkat permasalahan Pelaksanaan Perlindungan Hukum TerhadapFolklore Motif Batik Khas Blitar. Hal tersebut dilatar belakangi kekayaan budayatradisional dalam bentuk folklore salah satunya adalah motif batik mutlak harus ...
Adyadnya, W. Y. (Wahyu)
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Information systems and digitization of traditional knowledge: Trends in cultural heritage and memory institutions and the WIPO Genetic Resources Treaty*

open access: yesThe Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract Understanding the role of information communication technologies (ICTs) in development, especially in relation to marginalized populations, has been the focus of many related disciplinary categories within the broader ecosystem of information sciences.
Chidi Oguamanam
wiley   +1 more source

Information Technology for Preserving the Bulgarian Folklore Heritage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Folk songs are an important and essential part of the Bulgarian cultural heritage. Following the traditions of the 20th century in publishing Bulgarian folk songs, we prepared the book “Folk Songs from Thrace” [3] with scores and lyrics recorded from ...
Kirov, Nikolay, Peycheva, Lozanka
core  

Pippo: An Italian Folklore Mystery of World War II

open access: yes, 2003
During the German occupation of Northern Italy (1943-45), the Italian populace lived under the grip of fear as Allied bombardments pummeled towns, Nazifascists raided villages looking for partisans, and food grew ever more scarce.
Perry, Alan R.
core   +1 more source

Ancestral Irrigation and Women's Political Empowerment

open access: yesKyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the adoption of irrigation agriculture during the preindustrial period is a predictor of contemporary cross‐country variation in women's political empowerment. Countries whose populations historically relied on irrigation agriculture as their primary subsistence mode tend to ...
Roberto Ezcurra
wiley   +1 more source

The Great War in Lithuanian Literature and Memoirs

open access: yesActa Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2017
Works of fiction and memoirs relating to the First World War written in the Lithuanian language or by Lithuanian authors have so far not been a preoccupation of Lithuanian literary scholars.
Eugenijus Žmuida
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Speeding up parallel processing [PDF]

open access: yes
In 1967 Amdahl expressed doubts about the ultimate utility of multiprocessors. The formulation, now called Amdahl's law, became part of the computing folklore and has inspired much skepticism about the ability of the current generation of massively ...
Denning, Peter J.
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