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Social InclusionGrassroots urban horticultural plots (hortas), part of the Porto Metropolitan Area in Northern Portugal, are presented as liminal spaces that hold a richness of community life and a “gift economy.” Often in existence for several decades and encompassing ...
Paula Mota Santos
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Metal‐free carbon catalysts enable the sustainable synthesis of hydrogen peroxide via two‐electron oxygen reduction; however, active site complexity continues to hinder reliable interpretation. This review critiques correlation‐based approaches and highlights the importance of orthogonal experimental designs, standardized catalyst passports ...
Dayu Zhu +3 more
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“To fulfill a private obligation”: Marianne Moore, Her Patrons, and the Social Economy of the Gift
NANO, 2017 This paper focuses on material and financial gifts received by the American modernist poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972) under the auspices of patronage.
Síofra McSherry
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Self‐Cooling Molecular Spin Qudits
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.A material made of [GdEr] molecular dimers can encode a qudit and perform as a magnetic refrigerant. Microwave resonant pulses coherently manipulate its 16 spin states, while direct demagnetization measurements cool the material and a device down to temperatures below 1 K.
Elías Palacios +12 more
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Female-centered fan fiction as homoaffection in fan communities
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2017 In the scholarship of fan studies, a lot has been said about why female fan communities enjoy writing about male characters and relationships in fan fiction.
Ria Narai
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Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, 2012 The post-2008 economic crisis in Portugal has been particularly severe in the neighborhoods in which many of the country’s Cape Verdean labor immigrants live.
Samuel Weeks
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.In this work, low bandgap (≈1.55 eV) semitransparent perovskite solar cells (ST‐PSCs) having thin (thickness < ≈100 nm) perovskite layers and transparent conductive oxide‐based rear electrodes are fabricated using vacuum‐deposition methods. Two different ST‐PSCs demonstrated a high light utilization efficiency value of 4.2 (PCE: 9.26% and AVT: 45.3 ...
Abhyuday Paliwal +9 more
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Gift Exchange as Communal Resistance in Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying
NANO, 2017 This article examines the representation of gift exchange in Ernest Gaines’s novel, A Lesson Before Dying. Drawing upon sociological and anthropological theories of the gift, it argues that gift exchange among the black community in the fictional town of
Scott Thomas Gibson
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The Politics of Objects: Eliza Cook’s Biographies of Things
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2016 Eliza Cook’s poetry of daily life is intertwined with her Chartist engagement. While her poems often denounce the forces of oppression that threaten social peace and the daily life of simple people, her biographies or fictitious autobiographies of things
Fabienne Moine
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