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Diatom‐Inspired 1D Immobile Robots Capable of 2D Collective Mobility
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.This study presents a diatom‐inspired robotic system that explores group coordination through limited physical interactions. The researchers tune groups of Barbots, simple robotic agents that possess neither individual mobility nor explicit communication capabilities, to achieve complex and adaptive collaboration based on environmental light.
Tianyi Hu +4 more
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Demandable debt as a means of payment: banknotes versus checks [PDF]
We examine the question of whether transactable forms of privately issued, demandable debt are better used as "banknotes" or "checks." The distinction between the two is that a check must be redeemed by the issuing bank with each use, whereas a banknote ...
Charles M. Kahn, William Roberds
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Race, Sex, and Redemption in Monster\u27s Ball [PDF]
, 2003 In this paper, we explore the way that interracial relationships between blacks and whites come to be represented as problematic for mainstream audiences.
Fisher, Celeste, Wiebe, Carole
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra +3 more
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Thinking the Future. Death and Redemption. Heidegger and Rosenzweig
Daimon, 2010 Embedded within the leading issue of the thinking of the future, Heideggerian Death and Rosenzweigian Redemption represent two different reference-points which can shed light on human existence.
Beniamino Fortis
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Slave Redemption When it Takes Time to Redeem Slaves [PDF]
We analyze slave redemption programs—the buying of slaves to give them their freedom--in a simple matching model, i.e., under the assumption that it takes time to find slaves to buy or sell.
Carol Ann Rogers, Kenneth A Swinnerton
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AMIR’S REDEMPTION IN THE KITE RUNNER MOVIE DIRECTED BY MARC FOSTER: A HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH [PDF]
, 2010 The major problem of this study is how a person redeems himself or herself by his fault in the past. This research is aimed to analyze The Kite Runner movie based on the Humanistic Psychology perspective related to how redemption was represented by the ...
MUHSIN , AHMAD
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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The Crucifixion of Christ in its milieu and its spiritual significance today [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2019 A large preponderance of scholars agree on the historicity of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The earliest accounts of the death of Jesus are contained in the four canonical gospels. There are also other references in the New Testament epistles.
Angelique C. Nicolaides (Presbytera) +1 more
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Social Hierarchies and the Formation of Customary Property Law in Pre-Industrial China and England [PDF]
, 2014 Comparative lawyers and economists have often assumed that traditional Chinese laws and customs reinforced the economic and political dominance of elites and, therefore, were unusually “despotic” towards the poor. Such assumptions are highly questionable:
Zhang, Taisu
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