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Das Computer-Dilemma: Menschliche Antworten auf die KI in Frank Herberts Werk "Dune"

open access: yesMedienimpulse
Frank Herberts „Dune“-Zyklus gilt als wegweisendes literarisches Opus der Science-Fiction und führt weit über traditionelle Genregrenzen hinaus. Im Zentrum steht die detaillierte Analyse des Wüstenplaneten Arrakis und der rivalisierenden Adelshäuser ...
Dominik Irtenkauf
doaj   +1 more source

Planeta-deserto e seres ambissexuais: o estranhamento da ficção científica na discussão de conteúdos CTS

open access: yesIndagatio Didactica, 2016
Amparados em estudos teóricos realizados em trabalhos anteriores e nas experiências de campo do nosso grupo de pesquisa, buscamos investigar em que dimensão é possível utilizar a Ficção Científica na educação em ciências, dentro de um enfoque CTS.
Luís Paulo Piassi, Rafael Kobata Kimura
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The Blackness of Liet-Kynes: Reading Frank Herbert’s Dune Through James Cone

open access: yesReligions, 2018
Frank Herbert’s landmark science fiction novel Dune has received numerous sequels, prequels, and film treatments. Detailing the saga of humanity’s far future beyond our present solar system, the work plays successfully with religious ...
Peter Herman
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Public Inquiries and UK Press Regulation: A Case of ‘Fading into Forgetfulness’?

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Why were the proposals for reform of UK press regulation made by Lord Leveson in 2012 not implemented in full, despite popular and parliamentary support for the report's recommendations, and despite the creation of the legal framework for the reformed system of regulation?
John Street   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
wiley   +1 more source

TinkerCell: modular CAD tool for synthetic biology

open access: yesJournal of Biological Engineering, 2009
Background Synthetic biology brings together concepts and techniques from engineering and biology. In this field, computer-aided design (CAD) is necessary in order to bridge the gap between computational modeling and biological data.
Bergmann Frank T   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Acid-base and electrolyte status during normovolemic hemodilution with succinylated gelatin or HES-containing volume replacement solutions in rats. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
BACKGROUND: In the past, several studies have compared different colloidal replacement solutions, whereby the focus was usually on the respective colloid.
Johanna K Teloh   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
wiley   +1 more source

The Engineered Messiah: Islamic Theology as Source Code in the Post-Cybernetic Universe of Dune

open access: yesReligions
Frank Herbert’s Dune (1965) establishes a universe defined by the “Butlerian Jihad”, a historical crusade that banned artificial intelligence and created a vacuum filled by religious engineering.
Nimetullah Aldemir, Emrullah Ataseven
doaj   +1 more source

Cortical Thickness Related to Compensatory Viewing Strategies in Patients With Macular Degeneration

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2021
Retinal diseases like age-related macular degeneration (AMD) or hereditary juvenile macular dystrophies (JMD) lead to a loss of central vision. Many patients compensate for this loss with a pseudo fovea in the intact peripheral retina, the so-called ...
Tina Plank   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

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