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L’émergence d’une forme de nanopunk au Japon : Gunnm (Ganmu 銃夢) de Kishiro Yukito

open access: yesReS Futurae, 2017
Focusing on the manga Battle Angel Alita (Ganmu) by Kishiro Yukito (1991-95), this paper examines how Japanese science fiction rapidly integrated the most representative elements of the nanotechnological imagination.
Denis Taillandier
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Perfect and Essentially Perfect Authentication Schemes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Suppose that A wants to send a message M to B. It is important that B receives the message without any alteration. On the other hand, a bad guy X looks for his chance to alter M in his favour. In order t o make the bad guy's life difficult, A authenticates the message M.
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Perfect hashing as an almost perfect subtype test [PDF]

open access: yesACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 2008
Subtype tests are an important issue in the implementation of object-oriented programming languages. Many techniques have been proposed, but none of them perfectly fulfills the five requirements that we have identified: constant-time, linear-space, multiple inheritance, dynamic loading and inlining.
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Theoretical Framework of Performance Consistency Index and Its Application in Operational Diagnostics for Air-Source Heat Pumps

open access: yesZhileng xuebao
In the operational diagnosis of air-source heat pumps, the conventional coefficient of performance faces limitations in distinguishing environmental effects from equipment performance degradation due to its dependency on operating conditions.
Yang Qiang   +7 more
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Addressing the age-old question of human perfectibility in Daniel Defoe's Mere Nature Delineated: or, a Body without a Soul

open access: yes, 2014
This article discusses the concern with the improvement or perfectibility of human nature in eighteenth-century English society and the necessity of its encouragement considering the prevalence of human degeneration at different levels: intellectual ...
Culea, Mihaela
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Justice, fairness and juridical perfectibility [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Aristotle had already underlined the importance of the relationship between justice and equity (a term I interpret as synonomous to fairness), which he analysed in great detail.
PETRILLI, Susan Angela
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When the Cave Becomes Home: From Mixed Signals to Crossed Wires in the Digital World

open access: yesAcademicus International Scientific Journal
This paper explores the intersection of human psychology and advanced technology, focusing on how intelligent and emotive technology influences human behavior and emotional intelligence, and in the process, might impact our ability to show and feel ...
Carin-Isabel Knoop   +3 more
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Ordre de la Resemblance: ett bidrag till Nordenflychtforskningen

open access: yesSjuttonhundratal, 2011
This article treats an episode in the life and work of one of the most prominent Swedish female poets of the eighteenth century, Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht (1718-1763).
Andreas Önnerfors
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The free animal: free will and perfectibility in Rousseau's Discourse on inequality

open access: yes, 2002
In his Discourse on Inequality Jean Jacques Rousseau proposes two different interpretations of what distinguishes men from the animals. Firstly he suggests that man is separated from the other animals through his freedom of will.
MacLean, Lee Margaret
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The free animal: free will and perfectibility in Rousseau's Discourse on inequality

open access: yes, 2002
In his Discourse on Inequality Jean Jacques Rousseau proposes two different interpretations of what distinguishes men from the animals. Firstly he suggests that man is separated from the other animals through his freedom of will.
MacLean, Lee Margaret
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