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IEEE Photonics Journal, 2022 In visible light communication systems, the ability to suppress interference caused by other light sources is a major benefit towards performance improvements.
Adrian Krohn +4 more
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, 2011 Happy end-of-the-year evening and night events provide good opportunities to explain the phases of the moon. The need for such moon phase education is once again demonstrated, through an investigation of illustrations on Santa Claus and Christmas gift ...
Barthel, Peter
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An EPTAS for Scheduling on Unrelated Machines of Few Different Types
, 2017 In the classical problem of scheduling on unrelated parallel machines, a set of jobs has to be assigned to a set of machines. The jobs have a processing time depending on the machine and the goal is to minimize the makespan, that is the maximum machine ...
A Asadpour +13 more
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The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tim Burton's Christmas trilogy, Batman Returns, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands are all characterized by his trademark features. These include characters with ambiguous identities, apparently “normal” worlds adjacent to spaces associated with difference and exclusion, and the inevitable intrusion of the latter into the ...
Fran Pheasant‐Kelly
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Theorizing Family Rituals: A Family Systems Model
Journal of Family Theory &Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Family rituals are universal and spontaneous events carried out by families worldwide. The meaning associated with family rituals can greatly benefit individuals and families. A robust body of research, coupled with ongoing theoretical developments, has paved the way for family rituals to become a well‐established construct within family ...
Carla Crespo
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R-matrix Methods with an application to 12C(alpha,gamma)16O
, 2010 We review some aspects of R-matrix theory and its application to the semi-empirical analysis of nuclear reactions. Important applications for nuclear astrophysics and recent results for the ${}^{12}{\rm C}(\alpha,\gamma){}^{16}{\rm O}$ reaction are ...
Brune, Carl R.
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Moral certainty and the wrongness of killing: A non‐propositional view
Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.Abstract In 2008 I published a paper making the case that Wittgenstein's On Certainty reflections can be fruitfully extended to cast light on the foundations of our moral lives and practices. My primary example was that the wrongness of killing is a basic moral certainty.
Nigel Pleasants
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Protocol-Safe Workflow Support for Santa Claus [PDF]
, 1999 Practical software analysis techniques exploit a form a process description, mostly in some \ud avour of state diagram. Unlike typing information, these process structures are usually not passed down to the implementation level, and neither are they ...
Rein, H. van
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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Santa Claus, place branding and competition
Fennia: International Journal of Geography, 2008 Santa Claus has been described as the world’s strongest brand. Although Santa Claus has been examined in the context of product and retail branding, the Santa mythology has been little discussed with respect to place branding.
C. Michael Hall
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