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THE HISTORY OF AUTISM IN THE FIRST HALF CENTURY OF THE 20TH CENTURY: NEW AND REVISED
This paper examines the prehistory and history of autism in the first half of the 20th century. The prehistory focuses on Heller’s dementia Infantilis and Bleuler’s autism and schizophrenia. The more formal history begins with Tramer (1924), and continues with Ssucharewa (1926), which still contains some of the best descriptions of autism, although she
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Reining-in a Rogue Policy: The Imperative of Immigration Reform [PDF]
It was Napoleon who said, Policy is destiny. There are few better examples of the direct link between the change-creating influences of public policies on subsequent societal outcomes than immigration policy.
Briggs, Vernon M., Jr.
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Abstract The trigeminus nerve (cranial nerve V) is a large and significant conduit of sensory information from the face to the brain, with its three branches extending over the head to innervate a wide variety of integumentary sensory receptors, primarily tactile.
Juri A. Miyamae+4 more
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From Poland to "Petersburg": The Banach-Tarski Paradox in Bely's Modernist Novel [PDF]
Andrei Bely's novel "Petersburg," first published in 1913, was declared by Vladimir Nabokov one of the four greatest masterpieces of 20th-century prose. The Banach-Tarski Paradox, published in 1924, is one of the most striking and well-known results in 20th-century mathematics.
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Abstract Hybodontiformes was a diverse, successful, and important group of shark‐like chondrichthyans known from a variety of ecosystems. Some representatives of the order had a wide palaeogeographic distribution, as is the case with Priohybodus arambourgi. With a multicuspidate crown, P. arambourgi was the first hybodontiform to develop fully serrated
Estevan Eltink+5 more
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The Pendulum in the 21st Century--Relic or Trendsetter [PDF]
When identifying instruments that have had great influence on the history of physics, none comes to mind more quickly than the pendulum. Though 'birthed' by Galileo in the 16th century, and in some respects nearly 'dead' by the middle of the 20th century; the pendulum experienced 'rebirth' by becoming an archetype of chaos.
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Roman Jackiw: A Beacon in a Golden Period of Theoretical Physics [PDF]
This text offers reminiscences of my personal interactions with Roman Jackiw as a way of looking back at the very fertile period in theoretical physics in the last quarter of the 20th century.
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Culturally Imbued Trees: Physical and Metaphysical Connections
ABSTRACT Australian Aboriginal song‐lines and Dreaming tracks follow the movement and interactions of ancestral beings and are marked by physical features associated with those ancestral beings at culturally significant places, often termed ‘sacred sites’.
Ken Mulvaney, David Cooper
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Do the terms “modernism” and “postmodernism” objectively characterize the trends in the music history of the 20th century or are they merely theoretical abstractions?
Jānis Kudiņš
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Average word length dynamics as indicator of cultural changes in society [PDF]
Dynamics of average length of words in Russian and English is analysed in the article. Words belonging to the diachronic text corpus Google Books Ngram and dated back to the last two centuries are studied. It was found out that average word length slightly increased in the 19th century, and then it was growing rapidly most of the 20th century and ...
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