'The History of Heroes is the History of Youth': The Construct of the Youthful Hero in the work of G.A. Henty and George MacDonald [PDF]
, 2009 The following article is an examination of the hero figure in the work of G.A. Henty (1832-1902) and George MacDonald (1824-1905) in order to reassess the current critique of their writing as oppositional and to demonstrate that their work reflects some ...
Johnson, Rachel
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Otto Stern (1888-1969): The founding father of experimental atomic physics
, 2011 We review the work and life of Otto Stern who developed the molecular beam technique and with its aid laid the foundations of experimental atomic physics.
Friedrich, Bretislav +3 more
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Innocent Initiations: Female Agency in Eroticized Fairy Tales [PDF]
, 2008 Bawdy folktales have generated controversy and scholarship for centuries, and their literary, sexually explicit descendants, eroticized fairy tales, are also deserving of attention.
Jorgensen, Jeana
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Modelling European winter wind storm losses in current and future climate [PDF]
, 2018 Severe wind storms are one of the major natural hazards in the extratropics and inflict substantial economic damages and even casualties. Insured storm-related losses depend on (i) the frequency, nature and dynamics of storms, (ii) the vulnerability of ...
Bresch, David +6 more
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The Black and the White Bride: Dualism, Gender, and Bodies in European Fairy Tales [PDF]
, 2013 Fairy tales are one of the most important folklore genres in Western culture, spanning literary and oral cultures, folk and elite cultures, and print and mass media forms. As Jack Zipes observes: ‘The cultural evolution of the fairy tale is closely bound
Jorgensen, Jeana
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Interrater agreement of multi-professional case review as reference standard for specialist palliative care need: a mixed-methods study. [PDF]
BMC Palliat Care, 2023 Müller E +8 more
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Darwin au pays des fées: Une approche naturaliste du conte merveilleux [PDF]
, 2007 International audienceThe concept of "convergence" appeared in paléo-anthropology in reaction to the diffusionnist thesis which reduced the evolution of the living things to the schema of a tree: according to this theory, the similia which are observed ...
Darnis, Pierre
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Heterogeneous plasticity of amygdala interneurons in associative learning and extinction. [PDF]
Nat CommunFavila N +8 more
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Cranial reconstruction evaluation - comparison of European statistical shape model performance on Chinese dataset. [PDF]
Bone Rep, 2022 Fuessinger MA +4 more
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