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The Crimean War of 1853-1856 in the light of the "memorial turn": reflecting on the book by the English historian Orlando Figes "Crimea. The Last Crusade"

open access: yesИсторический журнал: научные исследования, 2022
The article reviews O. Figes' monograph "Crimea, The Last Crusade", dedicated to the Crimean War of 1853-56, published in Russia in 2021. The work of the English historian is considered primarily in the light of approaches to the study of historical memory developed in modern historical science.
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Hurricane Risk, Happiness and Life Satisfaction. Some Empirical Evidence on the Indirect Effects of Natural Disasters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
As a consequence of climate change, certain types of natural disasters become either more likely or more severe. While disasters might have numerous direct (typically negative) e ects, the e ect of an increase of natural disaster risk on individual well ...
Berlemann, Michael
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Seeing Colors: Cultural and Environmental Influences on Episodic Memory

open access: yesi-Perception, 2017
Expectations learned from our perceptual experiences, culture, and language can shape how we perceive, interact with, and remember features of the past. Here, we questioned whether environment also plays a role.
Kimele Persaud   +3 more
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Comorbid Learning Difficulties in Reading and Mathematics: The Role of Intelligence and In-Class Attentive Behavior

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
The goal was to identify the domain-general cognitive abilities and academic attitudes that are common and unique to reading and mathematics learning difficulties that in turn will have implications for intervention development. Across seventh and eighth
David C. Geary   +4 more
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Functional Central Limit Theorem for Heavy Tailed Stationary Infinitely Divisible Processes Generated by Conservative Flows [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
We establish a new class of functional central limit theorems for partial sum of certain symmetric stationary infinitely divisible processes with regularly varying Levy measures.
Owada, Takashi, Samorodnitsky, Gennady
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Cultural Memory Studies and the Idea of Literature: A Cosmopolitan Critique [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Humanistic and Social Studies, 2018
This essay examines the implications of a turn to cosmopolitanism in humanities and social sciences for cultural memory studies. The essentialistculturalist assumptions of cultural memory studies regarding identity and belonging are criticized from a ...
Seyyed Mehdi Mousavi   +2 more
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Mag de radio uit? Hoe achtergrondmuziek het oudere brein belast

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Gerontologie en Geriatrie, 2017
bespreking: Reaves S, Graham B, Grahn J, Rabannifard P, Duarte A (2016). Turn off the music! Music impairs visual associative memory performance in older adults. The Gerontologist. 56:569–577.
Han F. A. Diesfeldt
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An Overview of MOOS-IvP and a Brief Users Guide to the IvP Helm Autonomy Software [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This document describes the IvP Helm - an Open Source behavior-based autonomy application for unmanned vehicles. IvP is short for interval programming - a technique for representing and solving multi-objective optimizations problems. Behaviors in the IvP
Benjamin, Michael R.   +3 more
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Visions of transnational memory

open access: yesJournal of Aesthetics & Culture, 2011
The paper is a short introduction to the “global turn” in memory studies and to transnational memory in particular. Both culturalist and normative positions are presented.
John Sundholm
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An interactive method for digitizing zone maps [PDF]

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A method is presented for digitizing maps that consist of zones, such as contour or climatic zone maps. A color-coded map is prepared by any convenient process.
Giddings, L. E., Thompson, E. J.
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