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Circumstellar Disks at White Dwarfs: Observations [PDF]
, 2011 The current picture painted by the observations of circumstellar dust at white dwarfs, and the consequent atmospheric pollution, is of a surviving planetary system. This chapter recounts in detail both the discovery and empirical characterization of dust disks at single white dwarfs, including all observational data available up to early 2011 ...
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Campaign Knowledge Network: Building Knowledge for Campaign Efficiency [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 In the landscape of exascale computing collaborative research campaigns are conducted as co-design activities of loosely coordinated experiments. But the higher level context and the knowledge of individual experimental activity is lost over time. We undertook a knowledge capture and representation aid called Campaign Knowledge Network(CKN), a co ...
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Meaning in hoarding: perspectives of people who hoard on clutter, culture, and agency [PDF]
, 2017 Hoarding has become increasingly prominent in clinical practice and popular culture in recent years, giving rise to extensive research and commentary.
Allen F. +24 more
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Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging, 2018 Hoarding disorder can be defined as a persistent difficulty in discarding items, due to distress associated with such disposal or a perceived need to save items regardless of their actual value. Such behavior must result in the accumulation of clutter, which significantly compromises living conditions, causing distress and/or functional impairment. The
Stumpf,Bárbara Perdigão +2 more
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Green Grease: Environmental Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a theoretical and empirical analysis that shows how corruption can be a ‘green grease’ that facilitates both environmental crimes and money laundering. Corruption can be an accelerator that amplifies the multiplier effect on illegal revenues.
Raffaella Barone, Donato Masciandaro
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Hoarding disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder
European Psychiatry, 2016 IntroductionHoarding disorder is described in the DSM-5 as a new clinical entity whose essential characteristic is the persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of their actual value, arguing reasons of utility, aesthetics, attachment or strong fear of losing Information.ObjectivesWe present the case of an 11-year-old ...
A. Duque Domínguez +7 more
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Seasonality in Reproduction and Reproductive Physiology of Caviomorphs
Mammal Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Animals experience seasonal fluctuations of photoperiod, food availability, temperature and precipitation. This affects their energy budget, often leading to seasonal reproduction. We review available literature and (re)‐analyse existing datasets on seasonal reproduction of South American caviomorph rodents that are characterised by long ...
Anja Guenther +5 more
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Collateral Unchained: Rehypothecation networks, concentration and systemic effects [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 We study how network structure affects the dynamics of collateral in presence of rehypothecation. We build a simple model wherein banks interact via chains of repo contracts and use their proprietary collateral or re-use the collateral obtained by other banks via reverse repos.
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Group And Individual Treatment of Compulsive Hoarding: a Pilot Study [PDF]
, 2000 Treatment of compulsive hoarding has rarely been described in the literature, apart from standard treatments for obsessive compulsive disorder of which hoarding is thought to be a subset.
Douglass, Heidi +4 more
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Hoarding the intangible: Language as an object of colonial collecting
Museum Anthropology, Volume 48, Issue 1, Spring 2025.Abstract This commentary builds on the concept of “colonial hoarding” by considering how it applies to intangible cultural practices, such as language. The central processes and practices that allow language to fit within this system are its artefactualization—its ontological transformation into something tangible—and its subsequent circulation through
Sarah Shulist
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