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Bertha’s Intuitive Quest:

Crossings, 2018
This article puts light on the unmasking of Bertha’s unawake self in Katherine Mansfield’s short story “Bliss” published in 1918. Mansfield unlocks the shackled and entangled experiences of sexuality and femininity in the narration of the story.
Keya Chakraborty, Nellufar Yeasmin
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A novel that swirls around: Parallel reading of Karahasan's "Eastern Diwan" and "Simon the Miracle Worker" by Danilo Kiš [PDF]

Baština, 2023
The paper draws attention to the intertextual connections between Karahasan's novel "Eastern Diwan" and Kiš's story "Simon the Miracle Worker," the first in the thematic collection "Encyclopedia of the Dead," based on thematic, motive and structural ...
Selmanović Rejhana I.
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Omnidirectional thermal-electric signatures of functional illusion device with anisotropic geometry

iScience, 2023
Summary: The omnidirectional thermal-electric signatures induced by the anisotropic functional illusion device and the corresponding camouflage device are reported. We first theoretically derive the anisotropic effective parameters of confocal elliptical
Huolei Feng, Xingwei Zhang, Yushan Ni
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Illusion Media: Generating Virtual Objects Using Realizable Metamaterials

, 2010
We propose a class of optical transformation media, illusion media, which render the enclosed object invisible and generate one or more virtual objects as desired.
Cheng, Qiang, Cui, Tie Jun, Jiang, Wei Xiang, Ma, Hui Feng   +3 more
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The Proficiency Illusion [PDF]

, 2007
Examines the tests states use to measure academic progress under the No Child Left Behind Act.
Deborah Adkins, G. Gage Kingsbury, John Cronin, Michael Dahlin   +3 more
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Procedural priming of a numerical cognitive illusion [PDF]

Judgment and Decision Making, 2016
A strategy activated in one task may be transferred to subsequent tasks and prevent activation of other strategies that would otherwise come to mind, a mechanism referred to as procedural priming.
Kimmo Eriksson, Fredrik Jansson
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Dynamic Amodal Completion Through the Magic Wand Illusion [PDF]

, 2019
In the Magic Wand effect, an overlying figure of the same color as its background is revealed by the motion of a wand behind it. The occluding figure is inferred by integration of the occluding edge information over time.
Tyler, Christopher W
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Brain representations of motion and position in the double-drift illusion

eLife
In the ‘double-drift’ illusion, local motion within a window moving in the periphery of the visual field alters the window’s perceived path. The illusion is strong even when the eyes track a target whose motion matches the window so that the stimulus ...
Noah J Steinberg, Zvi N Roth, J Anthony Movshon, Elisha Merriam   +3 more
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Law in Transition and Development: The Case of Russia [PDF]

, 2004
The rise of barter and non-cash payments has become a dominant feature of the Russian transition to a market economy. This paper confronts with empirical evidence two approaches to explain barter in Russia: the ’illusion view’ and the ’trust view’ of ...
Marin, Dalia
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Freeform Manufacturing of Plant‐Based Structural Colors for Scalable Photonic and Mechanochromic Devices

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A green, freeform manufacturing approach that utilizes robust aqueous two‐phase systems to create intricate and scalable photonic structures and non‐planar mechanochromic hydrogel actuators from plant‐based hydroxypropyl cellulose. This approach broadens the structural possibilities of sustainable photonic devices and mechanochromic systems, offering ...
Xiao Song, Peiqi Niu, Wenxi Gu, Chun Lam Clement Chan, Jiuhong Yi, Xu Liu, Peng Tan, Chon In Haydn Cheong, Qingwen Guan, Dan Fang, Bingpu Zhou, Zi Liang Wu, Ji Liu, Yan Yan Shery Huang, Iek Man Lei   +14 more
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