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Science Fiction as Legal Imaginary
This book examines how science fiction informs the legal imagination of technological futures. Science fiction, the contributors to this book argue, is a storehouse of images, tropes, concepts and memes that inform the legal imagination of the future ...
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The good parodist: beyond images of escape in the fiction of Doris lessing [PDF]
, 1997 In her earlier fiction, Doris Leasing presents images of escape from what Cohen and Taylor term "everyday life”. These images of escape, such as the vision of the "noble city, set four-square" in Martha Quest and Martha's plunge into the muddy veld ...
Ridout, Alice Rachel
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Le hasard dans la science-fiction
Cahiers de Narratologie, 2010 Chance plays a major part in many works of science-fiction. This paper tries to study the main themes to which it is connected, while focusing on some texts and relating its use to some important issues of history and philosophy of probability theory.
Jean-Luc Gautero
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.This review highlights advances in lightweight, lead‐free polymer nanocomposites for diagnostic X‐ray shielding. By linking filler chemistry, dispersion, architecture, and photon interaction mechanisms, it establishes structure–performance relationships guiding material design.
Aklilu G. Messele +2 more
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Short science fiction writer's thinking in the Dewan Kosmik magazine from January to June 2021 [PDF]
This article discusses the thinking of science fiction short story writers in Dewan Kosmik magazine published by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka from January to June 2021.
Nik Muhamad Affendi, Nik Rafidah +1 more
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Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2019 The relationships between science and fiction are the object of epistemocriticism which is interested in the meeting points between literary works and fields of knowledge in a general way and between science and fiction in particular.
Annie Escuret
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Precipitation Simulations of the O‐Phase in Ti2AlNb Alloys Processed by Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Simulated and experimental evolution of the O‐phase volume fraction during postprocessing of a Ti‐21Al‐25Nb (at.%) alloy processed by laser powder bed fusion. With results of sensitivity to input parameters from a thorough and quantified analysis, the interfacial energy matrix/precipitate is the most relevant input parameter for the simulation of the O‐
Silvana Tumminello +7 more
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Informaticology: combining Computer Science, Data Science, and Fiction Science
, 2012 Motivated by an intention to remedy current complications with Dutch terminology concerning informatics, the term informaticology is positioned to denote an academic counterpart of informatics where informatics is conceived of as a container for a ...
Bergstra, J.A.
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Cyberpunk cities: science fiction meets urban theory
, 2007 The science fiction subgenre of cyberpunk developed in the 1980s and 1990s with a strong interest in urban settings. A reading of important cyberpunk novels shows the way in which the ideas of formal urban theory, such as the idea of global cities ...
Carl Abbott, Abbott, Carl
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A Dislocation Perspective on Strength and Toughness in Ceramics
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Dislocations in ceramics enjoy a long but yet under‐appreciated history. The three research waves for dislocations in ceramics highlight the topic evolution over the last 90 years. This review focuses on the impact of dislocation on strength and toughness in ceramics.
Xufei Fang
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