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A view on the iconic turn from a semiotic perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Media are not only a means of communication. From a cognitive perspective, they may be viewed as components of an external, auxiliary memory system (Schönpflug 1997), and contemporary cognitive science “construes cognition as a complex system in which ...
Fenk, August
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FACTS OF THE IMAGINATION (FROM THE INSIDE OUT) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Growing up in a bicultural household, navigating the F train as well as mountain creeks, studying culture and then participating in its production, these are some of the idiosyncrasies that I bring to my work.
Iglesias, Janelle Ann
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Seeing like an Inuit family: The relationship between house form and culture in northern Canada [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Dans son classique Esssai sur les variations saisonnières des sociétés Eskimos, Marcel Mauss a demontré qu’un fort rapport existe entre l’organisation spatiale des formes traditionnelles des maisons des Inuit et la morphologie sociale des familles qu ...
Dawson, Peter C.
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Space‐use strategies drive diet composition of Baffin Bay polar bears

open access: yesEcosphere
Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) depend on sea ice to hunt their ice‐associated prey. However, climate‐induced sea ice loss is leading to changes in space‐use strategies of polar bears, with bears in some subpopulations spending more time on land or ...
Jennifer H. Stern   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Report of the workshop on age estimation in beluga: Beaufort, North Carolina, US 5-9 December 2011

open access: yesNAMMCO Scientific Publications, 2016
A workshop convened by C. Lockyer and A. A. Hohn to examine variation among readers in estimating beluga ages was held in Beaufort, North Carolina, US. Terms of Reference for the workshop included the following: 1.
Christina Lockyer   +3 more
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Temporal and spatial distributions of delphinid species in Massachusetts Bay (USA) using passive acoustics from ocean gliders [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
© The Author(s), 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Silva, T. L., Mooney, T. A., Sayigh, L. S., & Baumgartner, M. F.
Baumgartner, Mark F.   +3 more
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Co-management institutions, knowledge, and learning: Adapting to change in the Arctic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
How vulnerable are Arctic Indigenous peoples to climate change? What are their relevant adaptations, and what are the prospects for increasing their ability to deal with further change?
Armitage, Derek, Berkes, Fikret
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Research highlight: how to cage a unicorn—confining light in a tiny volume

open access: yeseLight
Overcoming the diffraction limit in optics is challenging and demands a profound understanding of light behavior under extreme confinement. The newly developed framework, termed singulonics, demonstrates the formation of sub-diffraction limit narwhal ...
Jacob B. Khurgin
doaj   +1 more source

The Evolution of American Microtargeting: An Examination of Modern Electoral Messaging [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The original intent of this work was slightly different than what follows. In an effort to provide information on the current state of micro targeting, 1 had planned to research the campaign tactics of the 2012 Obama and Romney presidential campaigns in ...
Bunting, Luke Dietrik
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Hybrid Narwhale Optimization with Super Modified Simplex and Runge–Kutta Enhancements: Benchmark Validation and Application to Fuzzy Aggregate Production Planning

open access: yesAlgorithms
Aggregate production planning (APP) helps medium-term production, manpower, inventory, and subcontracting decisions match expected demand. Deterministic planning models are generally ineffective in manufacturing due to demand and operational variability.
Pasura Aungkulanon   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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