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Translation and Bilingualism in Monica Ali’s and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Marginalized Identities [PDF]
, 2012 This investigation seeks to demonstrate how Ali and Lahiri represent two different migrant experiences, Muslim and Indian, each of which functioning within a multicultural Anglo-American context.
Rizzo, Alessandra
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Black Fugitivity in the Sporting Workplace: The Story of Eniola Aluko
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Being a Black fugitive involves constant movement: to find and cultivate spaces of safety and hope. In this paper, I curate a sporting archive about the UK Black women's elite football player Eniola Aluko to read her as a Black fugitive. I demonstrate how she traversed a racist and anti‐Black sporting workplace—where she was unfairly demonized
Aarti Ratna
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EARLY SPORT SPECIALIZATION IN YOUNG FEMALE FIGURE SKATERS
Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, 2020 BACKGROUND: Understanding the association between sport specialization in young athletes and injury continues to be an important goal of sports medicine specialists. However, studies focused on females were scarce.
D Sugimoto PhD, ATC +5 more
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Controlling Output Length in Neural Encoder-Decoders
, 2016 Neural encoder-decoder models have shown great success in many sequence generation tasks. However, previous work has not investigated situations in which we would like to control the length of encoder-decoder outputs.
Kikuchi, Yuta +4 more
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Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Fewer than 50 of the over 30,000 extant species of fishes have developed anatomical specializations facilitating endothermy in specific body regions. The plankton‐feeding basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), traditionally classified as an ectotherm, was recently shown to have regionally endothermic traits such as centralized red muscle (RM ...
C. Antonia Klöcker +9 more
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Women in the 2006 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games: An Analysis of Participation, Leadership and Media Coverage [PDF]
, 2006 Increasing women's participation in the Olympic Movement as participants and leaders has been a slow and challenging process. While the number of "events" open to female athletes has increased steadily during the past 30 years, the actual number of ...
Donna A. Lopiano +2 more
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Hidden partnerships in the dark: Cold‐water coral–fish associations in Fiordland, New Zealand
Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.Abstract The ichthyofauna of the Fiordland ecosystems of southern Aotearoa New Zealand was documented during four remotely operating vehicle (ROV) dives between 100 and 350 m depth. A total of 26 fish species were documented within two fiord basins.
Alexander H. Knorrn +3 more
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Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Knowledge on the ecology and life‐history traits of coastal marine species is vital to inform their conservation and management, especially as their coastal habitats come under increasing threats. However, such data have never been collated for four of the five families in the suborder Syngnathoidei—the close relatives of the better‐studied ...
Syd J. Ascione +3 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2013 The ability to efficiently utilize metabolic energy to produce work is a key factor for endurance performance. The present study investigated the effects of incline, performance level and gender on the gross mechanical efficiency during roller ski ...
Øyvind eSandbakk +2 more
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Do skin suits increase average skating speed? [PDF]
We analyze the effectiveness of speedskating suits to increase average skating speed at the 2002 Olympic winter games of Salt Lake City. We model the average skating speed of male and female speed skaters at distances from 500 to 10000 meters.
Kuper, Gerard H., Sterken, Elmer
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