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The Impact of an Old Fleet on the Demand for Air Transportation: The Case of VASP Brazilian Airlines [PDF]

In 05/25/1982, the VASP aircraft broke in two after a hard landing killing 2 people. The pilot's misuse of rain repellant, caused an optical illusion leading to the hard landing. Since that day, VASP started to have constant problems.
Bruno José Marques Pinto
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The cutaneous 'rabbit' illusion affects human primary sensory cortex somatopically [PDF]

, 2006
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study neural correlates of a robust somatosensory illusion that can dissociate tactile perception from physical stimulation.
Blankenburg, F., Deichmann, R., Driver, J., Rees, G., Ruff, C.C.   +4 more
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“Excluded Participation”: Some Observations of Non‐Reciprocal Interaction in a Danish Fifth Grade Classroom

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article introduces the concept of excluded participation to examine how inclusion and exclusion are negotiated in real time within a Danish fifth‐grade classroom. Using a micro‐sociological framework, particularly the work of Erving Goffman, the study focuses on the case of Anders, a student whose participation is symbolically recognized yet ...
Jørn Bjerre
wiley   +1 more source

Beware of Optical Illusion of the Alar Base in Unilateral Cleft Lip Nasal Deformity. [PDF]

Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open, 2021
Sakamoto Y, Miyamoyo J, Kishi K.
europepmc   +1 more source

Transformation elastodynamics and active exterior acoustic cloaking

, 2011
This chapter consists of three parts. In the first part we recall the elastodynamic equations under coordinate transformations. The idea is to use coordinate transformations to manipulate waves propagating in an elastic material. Then we study the effect
A. Alú, A. Greenleaf, A. Greenleaf, A. Greenleaf, A. Greenleaf, A. Serdikukov, A.N. Norris, A.N. Norris, D. Colton, D. Schurig, D.A.B. Miller, F. Guevara Vasquez, F. Guevara Vasquez, F. Guevara Vasquez, F. Guevara Vasquez, F. Guevara Vasquez, G. Bouchitté, G.W. Milton, G.W. Milton, G.W. Milton, G.W. Milton, G.W. Milton, G.W. Milton, G.W. Milton, H. Chen, H. Chen, H. Chen, H.H. Zheng, J. Stoer, J.B. Pendry, J.B. Pendry, J.E. Ffowcs Williams, J.R. Driscoll, J.R. Willis, L.C. Evans, M. Brun, M. Kadic, M. Rahm, M. Schoenberg, M.J.M. Jessel, N.A. Nicorovici, N.A.P. Nicorovici, R.V. Kohn, R.V. Kohn, S.A. Cummer, S.J. Gardiner, T. Yang, T.G. Feeman, U. Leonhardt, U. Leonhardt, U. Leonhardt, W. Cai, Y. Lai   +52 more
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The contribution of the humanities to the theory and practice of public administration in the 21st century

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro, Wolfgang Drechsler, Fabienne Maron, Albert Meijer, Hiroko Shimada‐Logie, Michele Tantardini   +5 more
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Ombres et transparences, de Vinci aux calques numériques

Sillages Critiques, 2012
Shadows, which are a form of imitation, combine contiguity and similarity. Sfumato as recommended by Leonardo, shadows ‘explaining’ objects according to Hogarth, entail contextualisation; they imply partial transparency, still required in digital image ...
Marie-Madeleine Martinet
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The Savage Worlds of Henry Drummond (1851–1897): Science, Racism and Religion in the Work of a Popular Evolutionist

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
wiley   +1 more source

Review of Studies on Visual Perception in Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus): The Muller-Lyer Illusion, Amodal and Modal Completion

Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2017
Few avian studies on optical illusions are directly comparable to those with humans. Grey parrots that have some referential use of English speech, however, allow for such comparative studies, as these birds can be tested just as are humans, by asking ...
Irene M. Pepperberg
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Spatial Transfiguration: Anamorphic Mixed-Reality in the Virtual Reality Panorama [PDF]

, 2007
Spatial illusion and immersion was achieved in Renaissance painting through the manipulation of linear perspective’s pictorial conventions and painterly technique.
Brisbin, Christopher
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