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Queen Anne's Wardrobe: Fashion, Sartorial Politics, and the Representational Strategies of the Last Stuart Queen

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
wiley   +1 more source

Efficient Shape Retrieval Using Elliptical Shape Coding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
[[abstract]]This paper presents a novel shape representation, called elliptical shape coding, and uses it to develop an efficient shape retrieval algorithm.
WEI-YANG LIN;JIA-MING LI
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Predicting thermal shape recovery of crosslinked polymer networks from linear viscoelasticity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The viscoelastic behavior of an amorphous shape-memory polymer network and its dependence on time and temperature were measured by dynamic mechanical analysis.
GILORMINI, Pierre   +7 more
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Making, Unmaking and Remaking Home: Foster Carers' Home Practices Within Australia's Child Protection System

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper draws from interviews with 16 foster carers to explore their efforts to make and remake a sense of home for young people in out‐of‐home care. Our findings highlight home as an important idea and a challenge for carers. Home was a deliberate achievement, created through practices that responded to each young person as an individual ...
Sharyn Goudie   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characteristics for the implementation of changeability in complex systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
: Changeability has become increasingly relevant in the development of complex systems. The definition of system changeability is determined by the ability of the system to change from one state to another in order to overcome encountered changes to ...
Rossi M.   +3 more
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Learning with a Warmer World: Climate Change Education for Forms of Life*

open access: yesEducational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract Climate change poses a threat to young people's capacity to flourish both now and in the future. In response, Aristotelian Climate Change Education (CCE) aims to cultivate radicalized climate virtues in students and give them structured opportunities to contemplate Socrates's question—“How should one live?”—amidst conditions of unprecedented ...
Melissa Diamond, Tomas Rocha
wiley   +1 more source

Spinoza on Humans as Social Animals

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Spinoza repeatedly suggests that humans are set apart from other animals by their rational and moral abilities. Yet he disparages the traditional definition of the human as a ‘rational animal’ and several of his other views suggest that these abilities are not sufficient by themselves to characterize human nature.
Ruben Noorloos
wiley   +1 more source

Changeability of development networks

open access: yes, 2011
Automobilhersteller und -zulieferer arbeiten verstärkt in Unternehmensnetzwerken zusammen, in denen die Produktentwicklung in einem eng vernetzten Zusammenspiel unterschiedlicher Unternehmen erfolgt.
Keijzer, Willem
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Measurement of Package-changeability by Mining Change-history

open access: yes, 2015
During the development of object-oriented software system; huge amount of software-development data especially change-history is stored in software-repositories. This change-history can be mined to measure the quality of the software systems.
Chhabra, Jitender Kumar, Parashar, Anshu
core   +1 more source

Retrieving Your Concepts: Iris Murdoch on Original Sin

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract In The Sovereignty of Good, Iris Murdoch argues that our moral thinking will be impoverished until it possesses a secular conception of original sin. Such a notion would need to remove unacceptable Christian baggage while retaining a genuine claim to be a descendant of the original Christian concept.
Samuel Filby
wiley   +1 more source

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