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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016 Diverse forms of matter around us can simply be classified as those that flow and those that don’t and exhibit rigidity, a resistance to deform when a force is applied. This elementary distinction informs our ability to comprehend their properties and to manipulate them. It is easy enough to pick up a spoon, a solid that pushes back against our fingers,
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Desiring Futures: Hope, Technoscience, and Utopian Dystopia in Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2020 In this paper, I analyze the animated television series Puella Magi Madoka Magica based on a variety of literary critical methods: neo-noir criticism, feminist epistemology and studies of technoscience, and discussion of utopia/dystopia imagination.
Leo Chu
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Why Here? Why Now? Why JAMS?: A Welcome from the Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2020 A Welcome from the Editor-in-Chief and a history of JAMS.
Billy Tringali
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Nanowire Gas Sensor to Support Optical and Volatile Changes in the Production Chain of Fruit Jams
Chemosensors, 2022 The marmalade and jam market is growing worldwide, with the European countries being the main producers in this sector. The market has ancient origins and the production is aimed at conserving the surplus fruits during some period of the year.
Estefanía Núñez-Carmona +7 more
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Haunted Psychologies: The Specter of Postmodern Trauma in Bakemonogatari
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2021 The anime adaptation of the light novel franchise Bakemonogatari was released in 2009. The story revolves around the character Araragi Koyomi, a high school student in his senior year who encounters a powerful vampire during a school break and is ...
Barbara Greene
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Physical Review E, 1995 We study a single-lane traffic model that is based on human driving behavior. The outflow from a traffic jam self-organizes to a critical state of maximum throughput. Small perturbations of the outflow far downstream create emergent traffic jams with a power law distribution $P(t) \sim t^{-3/2}$ of lifetimes, $t$.
Nagel, Kai, Paczuski, Maya
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Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2020 Little scholarly attention has been given to the visual representations of the Ainu people in popular culture, even though media images have a significant role in forging stereotypes of indigeneity. This article investigates the role of representation in
Christina Spiker
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Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2020 This essay examines an alternative eco-familial reading of Mamoru Hosoda’s manga film, Wolf Children (2012) through an analysis of Japanese extinction anxieties further exacerbated by 3/11. By reading the film through a minor history of the extinction of
David John Boyd
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Book Review: Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyôshi of Edo Japan
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2020 Review of Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyôshi of Edo Japan (2nd ed.) by Adam L. Kern.
Andrea Horbinski
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Antioxidants, 2019 Being delicious and containing strong disease-fighting agents, berries represent an increasing proportion of fruits consumed nowadays in our diet. However, berries are highly perishable as fresh and, therefore, they are usually processed into various ...
Zoriţa Diaconeasa +9 more
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