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High Voltage, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The problem of gas–solid interface charge accumulation is an important reason for distorting the surface electric field and then inducing surface discharge. The temperature gradient distribution formed on the spacer during the operation of a gas‐insulated transmission line (GIL) will aggravate the surface charge accumulation, further ...
Jianyi Xue +6 more
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Star Trek and World Government Federation, Empire, or Neoliberalism
As outlined in Chapter 2, humanity is desperately in need of world government. Global political/military tension and upheaval among nation-states suggests the very real possibility of the outbreak of a planetary conflagration—even involving nuclear ...
Gonzalez, George A
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Artificial Life, Divinity, and Mythology in Star Trek
ReligionsThe Star Trek franchise’s depiction of artificial intelligence (AI) and affiliated technologies—namely, supercomputers, androids, and holograms—evokes common themes and motifs from the myths of the ancient Mediterranean.
Amy L. Norgard
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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Homophobia, heteronormativity, and slash fan fiction
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2016 I analyze the relationship between homophobia/heteronormativity and slash fan fiction. Through reading and coding almost 6,000 pages of Kirk/Spock fan fiction written from 1978 to 2014, I illuminate shifts in how normative gender and sexuality are ...
April S. Callis
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"Cultural acupuncture": Fan activism and the Harry Potter Alliance
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2012 Fan activists have struggled to defend series from cancellation, defend themselves from cease and desist orders, promote alternative representations, and raise money for charity.
Henry Jenkins
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Responses to Sarcasm in Three Star Trek Movies
Lexicon, 2019 Sarcasm has been widely studied in various disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, neurology, sociology, and even cross-cultural studies. Its aggravating nature, however, often elicits various responses by the hearer.
Shafira Sherin, Adi Sutrisno
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
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Star Trek (the Original Series) An Anti-Cold War Narrative
The field of Star Trek studies (to coin a phrase) has been maligned by two hugely flawed assumptions: (1) that the original series is a metaphor for the Cold War (professor of US television history, Rick Worland: “The Klingons and the Federation were ...
Gonzalez, George A
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Constructed representation: Finding autism in Star Trek
Transformative Works and CulturesAutistic representation in media is often restricted by stereotyped, negative portrayals of autistic traits. Autistic fans frequently create their own representation through methodical and creative interpretations of characters that were not originally ...
Dana Brand
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