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“A Little History Here, a Little Hollywood There”: (Counter-) Identifying with the Spanish Fantasy in Carlos Morton’s Rancho Hollywood and Theresa Chavez’s L.A. Real [PDF]
, 2014 Often considered the final conquest and ultimate summation of Manifest Destiny, California holds a unique place in the American imaginary. While the popular mythology of the Spanish fantasy has served to obscure the use of violence and racialized ...
Mohler, Courtney
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Advanced NanoBiomed Research, EarlyView.An injectable CNC–PNIPAM hydrogel is developed for intrauterine co‐delivery of levonorgestrel and botropase. This platform reprograms uterine natural killer cells toward an immune–tolerant phenotype and enhances endometrial receptivity marker expression. The results demonstrate a promising strategy to counteract endometriosis–associated infertility and
Zhou Liang +9 more
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Medieval Christian Dualist Perceptions and Conceptions of Biblical Paradise [PDF]
, 2013 The article intends to draw attention to some of the most significant and telling appropriations of traditional themes of Biblical paradise in medieval Christian dualism (namely, Paulicianism, Bogomilism and related groups in Eastern Christendom and ...
Stoyanov, Yuri
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EnergiesThe High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) is characterized by a high output temperature and inherent safety due to its fuel design. However, the double heterogeneity of the reactor component structure poses a challenge in thermal analyses, where ...
Michał Górkiewicz, Jakub Sierchuła
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Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Merchant’s Tale, Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Tale of the Enchanted Pear-Tree, and Sir Orfeo Viewed as Eroticized Versions of the Folktales about Supernatural Wives [PDF]
, 2013 Two of the tales mentioned in the title are in many ways typical of the great collections of stories (The Canterbury Tales and Il Decamerone) to which they belong.
Wicher, Andrzej
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Twins in Mesoamerica as a Symbol of Contrasting Duality [PDF]
, 2015 In cultures across the Mesoamerican subcontinent, there are examples in the archaeological and ethnographic record of myths concerned with twins and sibling pairs (Minneci, 1999).
Rideout, Benjamin
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Functional morphology of the pharyngeal teeth of the ocean sunfish, Mola mola
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Many fish use a set of pharyngeal jaws in their throat to aid in prey capture and processing, particularly of large or complex prey. In this study—combining dissection, CT scanning, histology, and performance testing—we demonstrate a novel use of pharyngeal teeth in the ocean sunfish (Mola mola), a species for which pharyngeal jaw anatomy had ...
Benjamin Flaum +3 more
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Benchmark Comparison of the Oregon State TRIGA® Reactor Between MCNP® and Serpent 2
Journal of Nuclear EngineeringThe results of a recently developed Serpent 2 model of the Oregon State TRIGA® Reactor (OSTR) are compared to the results from the OSTR MCNP® model and measured values for reactor steady state behavior.
Tyler Law, Tracey Spoerer, Steven Reese
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Sources of Chicano Art: Our Lady of Guadalupe [PDF]
, 1992 There have been two main streams of influence on Chicano artists aside from the obvious one that is the result of their artistic training, education and development in the United States.
Quirarte, Jacinto
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Stages of embryonic development for reptiles have been presented in tables that may include all or part of embryonic development. When oviposition occurs in some lizards, embryos are already in the later stages of development; likewise, the size of the eggs increases as incubation time progresses.
Nivia Rocio Antonio‐Rubio +3 more
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