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PLoS Biology, 2006 The tiny hominid bones, which a joint Australian-Indonesian team unearthed in 2003 on the Indonesian island of Flores, have quickly become as celebrated (and derided) as any find in the tempestuous history of human paleontology.
Tabitha M Powledge
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The Hob Proteins: Putative, Novel Lipid Transfer Proteins at ER-PM Contact Sites [PDF]
Contact, 2021 Nonvesicular transfer of lipids at membrane contact sites (MCS) has recently emerged as a critical process for cellular function. Lipid transfer proteins (LTPs) mediate this unique transport mechanism, and although several LTPs are known, the cellular ...
Sarah D. Neuman +2 more
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Wymysorys revitalisation theatre: identity and community (re)building [PDF]
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThe small town of Wilamowice in southwestern Poland is home to the ethnic group of Vilamovians who speak their own endangered language: Wymysiöeryś. Amateur theatre created by the troupe Ufa fisa has been one of the most important and outwardly visible ...
Justyna Majerska-Sznajder +2 more
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ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 Computer Animation Festival, 2015 "The Battle of the Five Armies" showcases the cutting-edge tools and techniques used by Weta to create VFX of astounding scope and diversity. From the fiery destruction of Lake-town to the epic battlefields of Middle-earth, this is how it all came together in the dramatic conclusion of The Hobbit.
Young, Nathan, artist +1 more
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Three Versions of "The Hobbit": Strategies of Authentication and their Translation into Romanian
Linguaculture, 2022 A classic such as The Hobbit has occasioned three published versions in Romanian, which raises the question of progress in retranslation. Inspired by Kruger’s proposal that narratological translation shifts do occur in translation, we intend to check ...
Nadina Visan
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Movie-Induced Tourism: New Zealand and the UK, an EEG case study
Dos Algarves, 2022 This study on film tourism aims to evaluate the impact of films on the attractiveness of tourist destinations, namely on the intention of spectators to visit, leading to the following research question: Which film/country arises the greatest interest in ...
Isa Neves, Nuno Almeida
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HOBBIT: A platform for benchmarking Big Linked Data
Data Science, 2020 An increasing number of solutions aim to support the steady increase of the number of requirements and requests for Linked Data at scale. This plethora of solutions leads to a growing need for objective means that facilitate the selection of adequate ...
Michael Röder +2 more
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The hobbit — an unexpected deficiency [PDF]
Medical Journal of Australia, 2013 Vitamin D has been proposed to have beneficial effects in a wide range of contexts. We investigate the hypothesis that vitamin D deficiency, caused by both aversion to sunlight and unwholesome diet, could also be a significant contributor to the triumph of good over evil in fantasy literature.Data on the dietary habits, moral attributes and martial ...
Joseph A, Hopkinson +1 more
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“I’m just being a difficult LoTR hardcore fan”
Fafnir, 2022 Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy has been debated and discussed widely. Fans of J.R.R. Tolkien have had strong opinions about the films, and I believe that their online conversations about the movies call for a closer look.
Minna Siikilä-Laitila
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