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Sirens Chanting in Auvergne-Velay: A Story of Exegetical Pilgrimage on the "Via Podiensis"
Ad Limina, 2013 Migrating from Greek mythology to scripture and ecclesiastical writing, sirens are best known for the perils they put on the road of Odysseus, and conversely, on that of the crucified Christ and on that of the pilgrim, two significations that Odysseus ...
Avital Heyman
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Yes, We Khan—Diversity and De-Monsterization of Muslim Identities in Ms. Marvel (2014–)
Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2019 In 2014, Marvel comics introduced a new character to take over the mantle of the superhero identity Ms. Marvel. The new heroine is Kamala Khan, a 16-year-old girl born and raised in New Jersey.
Anja Borg Andreassen
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Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.The article overviews past and current efforts on caloric materials and systems, highlighting the contributions of Ames National Laboratory to the field. Solid‐state caloric heat pumping is an innovative method that can be implemented in a wide range of cooling and heating applications.
Agata Czernuszewicz +5 more
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Figurations of Alterity: an Encounter with the Archive
Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2021 In this work I ponder about the archive based on three images from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the drawing of a monster from the Teratology collection of the Museo Nacional de México preserved today in the Biblioteca Nacional de ...
Frida Gorbach
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Kon Satoshi and Japan’s Monsters in the City
Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2019 This article offers an analysis of Kon Satoshi’s use of monsters in his 2004 animated television series Paranoia Agent (Mōsō Dairinin). Focussing on the bat-wielding figure of Shōnen Batto and a cuddly pink doll called Maromi, it is shown how Kon Satoshi
Chris Perkins
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Interlayer sliding in the RuO2Zn2F2 bilayer induces ferroelectricity and enables reversible valley polarization switching. The electric dipole and valley‐resolved band edges are intimately coupled, revealing sliding ferroelectricity as a powerful mechanism for electrical control of valley degrees of freedom in 2D materials.
Djamel Bezzerga +3 more
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Flexoelectricity in Photoconversion: Fundamentals, Materials, and Outlooks
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Mechanical bending of a flexible cantilever induces a strain gradient in the photoactive material. The resulting flexoelectric field couples with photovoltaic and photoconductive effects, modulating charge generation, separation, and collection. A comparative analysis of oxide perovskites, halide perovskites, and two‐dimensional materials is presented,
Xiang Huang, Feng Li, Rongkun Zheng
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Other Ethics: Decentering the Human in Weird Horror
Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, 2017 Margrit Shildrick has argued that the monster’s ability to disturb and unsettle arises from its position as simultaneously same and different, both self and other at the same time.
Marianne Gunderson
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