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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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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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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.
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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Spectres of Dada: from Man Ray to Marker and Godard [PDF]
, 2012 An analysis of early Dada experimental practice in photography and film with reference to Roland Barthes's <i>Camera lucida</i> and Derrida's theory of spectrality.
Fotiade, R.
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
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Engineering the accurate distortion of an object's temperature-distribution signature
, 2015 It is up to now a challenge to control the conduction of heat. Here we develop a method to distort the temperature distribution signature of an object at will.
Chen, Y. X., Huang, J. P., Shen, X. Y.
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article engages signage as a medium through which urban stakeholders negotiate the politics of housing redevelopment and gentrification in cities. Focusing on Toronto, we examine housing‐related signage in three neighbourhoods where social mix approaches to redevelopment have ushered in gentrification: Parkdale, Regent Park, and Moss Park.
Lindi Jahiu +2 more
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Quantum-tunneling deep neural network for optical illusion recognition
APL Machine LearningThe discovery of the quantum tunneling (QT) effect—the transmission of particles through a high potential barrier—was one of the most impressive achievements of quantum mechanics made in the 1920s. Responding to the contemporary challenges, I introduce a
Ivan S. Maksymov
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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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