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Distortion in transformation groups [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
We exhibit rigid rotations of spheres as distortion elements in groups of diffeomorphisms, thereby answering a question of J Franks and M Handel. We also show that every homeomorphism of a sphere is, in a suitable sense, as distorted as possible in the ...
Calegari, Danny   +2 more
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Mountain Movers: Mining, Sustainability and the Agents of Change

open access: yesMountain Research and Development, 2018
Review of: Daniel M. Franks. 2015. Mountain Movers: Mining, Sustainability and the Agents of Change. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2015. xv + 178 pp. Hardback: US$ 165.00, ISBN 978-0-415-71170-8. Paperback: US$ 56.95, ISBN 978-0-415-71171-5. E-book:
Norman R. Moles
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A Dragon Out of Breath? Monitoring High-velocity Outflows from the High-mass Gamma-Ray Binary LS 2883/PSR B1259–63 During the 2017–2021 Binary Cycle

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2023
Observations of the high-mass gamma-ray binary LS 2883/PSR B1259–63 with the Chandra X-ray Observatory during the 2011–2014 and 2014–2017 binary cycles have shown X-ray-emitting clumps, presumably ejected from the binary during periastron passages. These
Jeremy Hare   +3 more
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L’emploi des foederati en bataille rangée: le cas de la Bataille des Champs Catalauniques (20 juin 451)

open access: yesNuova Antologia Militare, 2021
The present study shows how the Battle of the Calataunian Fields (June 451) illustrates the operational and tactical efficiency of an imperial army capable of using the foederati (Goths, Franks, etc.) and their tactical specialties (infantry, cavalry ...
Guillaume Sartor
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Approaches to Community in the Frankish Kingdoms c.650-800: Continuity and Change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper considers how the narratives composed by seventh- and eighth-century authors reflect conceptions of one of the communities of which the authors were a part; the community of the regnum Francorum.
Ricky Broome
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Prevalence of the Frank's sign by aetiopathogenic stroke subtype: A prospective analysis.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
Background and purposeThe Frank's sign is a diagonal earlobe crease running from the tragus to the edge of the auricle at an angle of 45°. Many studies have associated this sign with coronary artery disease and some with cerebrovascular disease.
Laura Sánchez-Cirera   +7 more
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On cobordisms between knots, braid index, and the Upsilon-invariant [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
We use Ozsv\'ath, Stipsicz, and Szab\'o's Upsilon-invariant to provide bounds on cobordisms between knots that `contain full-twists'. In particular, we recover and generalize a classical consequence of the Morton-Franks-Williams inequality for knots ...
Feller, Peter, Krcatovich, David
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Rapprochement between Sunnīs and Imāmīs during the Crusades

open access: yesمجلة كلية الشريعة والدراسات الإسلامية, 2018
The Imāmī Shī‘a of Syria stood along with the Sunnīs as one group against the Franks, rather than as followers of different religious traditions. This article traces the rapprochement between the Sunnī and the Imāmī Shī‘a in the face of the Franks ...
محمد المختار الشنقيطي
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A Man in the Depths of Meaning (Three S. Frank's Lectures Notes) [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2017
The article represents three Simon Frank’s lecture notes, written in the 1920–30s — “The Meaning of Life”, ‘The Meaning of Love” and “The Meaning of Suff ering”, — which shed some more light on Simon Frank’s activity as a lecturer of Russian immigrant ...
Aliaev Gennadii
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Archaeology in the eastern part of the Tarraconensis province in the times of the Visigothic kings [PDF]

open access: yesCatalan Historical Review, 2020
The presence of the Visigoths on the Iberian Peninsula went through certain crucial junctures in which the Tarraconensis province was the site of the manoeuvres of a people seeking a place to settle within the Roman Empire.
Cristina Godoy Fernández
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