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Mental set and mental arithmetic [PDF]
State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14226 Ss performed mental arithmetic problems in which they added, subtracted, or multiplied two one-digit numbers. The presentation order of the operator symbol and the digits was varied. With three possible operators, presentation of the operator prior to the digits (OD) led to faster RTs.
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Remaining an Outsider. An Eighteenth-Century Diary of a Hungarian Nobleman
György Nagy was an eighteenth-century merchant and nobleman in the Jászság region, and his diary for the period 1759 to 1769 gives insights into his selfidentity.
Gábor Csikós
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Contrabando, ilegalidade e medidas políticas no Rio de Janeiro do século XVIII
O presente artigo estuda o contrabando no século XVIII, em especial em relação ao Rio de Janeiro e ao Atlântico Sul. Neste artigo discuto não apenas a mecânica do contrabando e os participantes deste comércio ilegal, mas os vários fatores que ocasionaram
Ernst Pijning
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Modernizing peasants and 'master farmers': all-India crop competitions and the politics of progressive agriculture in early independent India [PDF]
In the years following independence, looking toward agricultural self-sufficiency, India's national leadership sought to identify cultivators endowed with the daring, grit, and experimental character needed to actualize the promise of plenty.
Siegel, Benjamin
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Four women, two mestizas and two zambas were accused of superstition and witchcraft before the highest court of appeal of the Real Audiencia de Charcas in La Plata the year 1824, which means, some months before the formal birth of Bolivia as an ...
Paola A. Revilla Orías
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'A woman like any other' : female sodomy, hermaphroditism and witchcraft in seventeenth-century Bruges [PDF]
This article discusses the official and popular responses to a particular sodomy trial held at Bruges in 1618 during which two women, Mayken and Magdaleene, were accused of several sexual and moral transgressions. The interrogation records of the accused
Roelens, Jonas
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My paper discusses the methodical question of the cultural unconscious, taking up the concept of “mentalities” by the Annales school of historiography, and Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of “habituality”. The scope is to describe contemporary manifestations in
Beat Wyss
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SACRED PROTECTORS IN THE OLD REALM OF ROMANIAN IMAGINATION – SAINT PARASCHEVA [PDF]
Saint Parascheva or Saint Friday (Saint Petca) entered the realm of imagination in old Romanian culture through canonical literature. The passage of this character from canonical to apocryphal literature is part of a transfer facilitated by the absence
Laura Bădescu
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Branding and strategic maneuvering in the Romanian presidential election of 2004: A critical discourse-analytical and pragma-dialectical perspective [PDF]
In this paper I analyse differences in the legitimation strategies used by and on behalf of the two presidential candidates in the elections of December 2004 in Romania, using a combination of Critical Discourse Analysis and pragma-dialectics.
Ietcu-Fairclough, Isabela
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