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Of how the Father of Heaven, the Easter bunny, Santa and the angels were living together in the sky!
Zero-a-seis, 2002 This text refers to the following question: After all, where was that the children took the idea that the Father of Heaven, the Easter Rabbit, the angels and Santa Claus live together in heaven?
Ana Beatriz Cerisara
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Santa Claus Schedules Jobs on Unrelated Machines
, 2010 One of the classic results in scheduling theory is the 2-approximation algorithm by Lenstra, Shmoys, and Tardos for the problem of scheduling jobs to minimize makespan on unrelated machines, i.e., job j requires time p_{ij} if processed on machine i ...
Svensson, Ola
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EDIS, 2013 Santa Claus, Winnie the Pooh®, and Shrek® … what do these three characters have in common? You probably know them for being jolly and for having extra fat around their waists, also known as “abdominal obesity.” Although this may be cute in fairy tales or
Erica Bub, Karla Shelnutt, Gail Kauwell
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Frontiers in Communication, 2023 IntroductionFrom the high-stakes operating room of a Seattle hospital, to the shattered remains of a planet in a galaxy far, far away, Hollywood is often critiqued for its representations of scientific knowledge, methods, and/or technology.
Jessica L. Davis +2 more
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Cultural codes in the iconography of St Nicholas (Santa Claus)
Sign Systems Studies, 2011 This paper examines some aspects of the cultural codes implied in the iconography of St Nicholas (Santa Claus). The argument posits the iconography of St Nicholas as a vessel for capturing meanings and accumulating them in the construction of public ...
Małgorzata Haładewicz-Grzelak
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Propositionalism without propositions, objectualism without objects [PDF]
, 2018 Propositionalism is the view that all intentional states are propositional states, which are states with a propositional content, while objectualism is the view that at least some intentional states are objectual states, which are states with objectual ...
Daniel J Salkeld +6 more
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The McKinleys of Punch: Politics and the Press in Melbourne, 1870s to 1920s
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.This article re‐examines the Melbourne Punch (1855–1925; known simply as Punch from 1900) as a political weapon in the cut‐and‐thrust of Victorian, local, and national politics, in the hands of its longest‐serving, but least‐known proprietor, Alexander McKinley (1848–1927).
Richard Scully
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The child's pantheon: Children's hierarchical belief structure in real and non-real figures.
PLoS ONE, 2020 To what extent do children believe in real, unreal, natural and supernatural figures relative to each other, and to what extent are features of culture responsible for belief?
Rohan Kapitány +3 more
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As a rapidly evolving sub‐field of computer‐assisted language learning, informal digital learning of English (IDLE) has become a significant catalyst for linguistic, affective, and pedagogical development among English as a second language (L2) learners.
Yue Zhang
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