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La China gótica de Alfonso Hernández Catá

Perífrasis. Revista de Literatura, Teoría y Crítica, 2014
Este artículo analiza dos cuentos del escritor cubano Alfonso Hernández Catá (1885-1940), “Los chinos” (1924) y “El gato” (1933), cuyos personajes asiáticos son descritos como seres grotescos y monstruosos tal como y ocurre en el género gótico.
Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno
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Inside the Mind of McMillen [PDF]

, 2017
The paper discusses how Edmund McMillen created “The Binding of Isaac”. It goes into his inspirations, influences, and his background leading up to the game.
Duong, Tina
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The Impact of Learner Characteristics and AI Utilization on Learning Experiences in a Smart Nutrition Education Platform

Future in Educational Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigated the relationships between learner characteristics, AI utilization, and learning outcomes in an intelligent nutrition education platform. By examining 109 university students, we explored how prior nutrition literacy, motivational factors, task anxiety, and critical thinking abilities influenced learners' interactions ...
Shan Li, Guozhu Ding
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Interview with \u3cem\u3eMonsters of the Midway\u3c/em\u3e author Jeff Rasley [PDF]

, 2012
Interview with John Warner for Indie BookSpot about the author’s experience writing, publishing, and marketing his ...
Rasley, Jeff, Warner, John
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(Intending) Migrants and Occupational Downgrading: Investigating the Willingness to Leave the Health Sector Post‐Migration

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The unquenched thirst for emigration in Nigeria‐ and the increasing cost of migrating to the West‐has been established in the literature. Professionals, such as healthcare workers (HCWs), are poorly paid in Nigeria, making many seek better employment abroad.
Tunde A. Alabi, Oluwaseun Badru, Fatai A. Badru, Oluwafemi Adeagbo   +3 more
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Strongly omnipresent operators: general conditions and applications to composition operators [PDF]

, 2002
This paper studies the concept of strongly omnipresent operators that was recently introduced by the first two authors. An operator T on the space H(G) of holomorphic functions on a complex domain G is called strongly omnipresent whenever the set of T ...
Bernal González, Luis, Calderón Moreno, María del Carmen, Grosse-Erdmann, Karl-Goswin   +2 more
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In The Neighbourhood of Tame Monsters: A study of galaxies near low-redshift quasars

, 2012
The impact of quasars on their galaxy neighbours is an important factor in the understanding of galaxy evolution models. The aim of this work is to characterize the intermediate-scale environments of quasars at low redshift (z $
Abazajian, Aihara, Almeida, Arnol, B. Villarroel, Babul, Baldwin, Barnes, Barnes, Bergvall, Bergvall, Boroson, Brinchmann, Bushouse, Canalizo, Canalizo, Charlot, Cho, Coldwell, Connolly, Donzelli, Efron, Ellison, Gehren, Grcevich, Gunn, Hao, Hopkins, Hopkins, Hutchings, Kauffmann, Kennefick, Kennicutt, Kewley, Kewley, Lamastra, Li, Lietzen, Lintott, Lintott, Lintott, Liu, Lynden-Bell, Martig, Moustakas, Nikolic, Park, Petrosian, Press, Raimann, Raymond, Rees, Reyes, Rogers, Scannapieco, Schmidt, Schneider, Schneider, Schneider, Searle, Serber, Shen, Shields, Sijacki, Silk, Stoughton, Strand, Strateva, Strauss, Sutherland, Tabor, Toomre, Way, Way, Whitford, Yee, Yin, York   +77 more
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Bank Income Smoothing, Societal Patriarchy and Policy Uncertainty

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a sample of 745 banks from 26 OECD countries over the period 1997–2023, we investigate the moderating effects of societal patriarchy on bank income smoothing (IS), amidst policy uncertainty (PU). Results indicate that in periods of high PU, banks operating in highly patriarchal societies tend to curtail the use of loan loss provisions ...
Tanveer Ahsan, Saqib Aziz, Akanksha Jalan, Fazal Muhammad, Dhoha Trabelsi   +4 more
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Always Already Monsters—BioShock’s (2007) ‘Splicers’ as Computational Others

Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2019
The article explores the manufacturing of monsters in video games, using the case of the influential 2007 first-person shooter BioShock, and ‘splicers’—its most numerous, zombie-like enemies.
Jaroslav Švelch
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Republican Monsters: The Cultural Construction of American Positivist Criminology, 1767-1920 [PDF]

, 2019
This dissertation examines the history of and cultural influences on positivist criminology in the United States. From Benjamin Rush to the present day, the U.S.
Burton, Chase Smith
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