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Toys in Trade: Playfully Poetic Technology in Qing Dynasty Canton

Journal of Early Modern History, 2022
Abstract The article explores how an artisan community in Canton adapted European clock-making technology to the making of automata in a Chinese aesthetic style. Moreover, it positions a unique automaton from the National Museum of Denmark in relation to a Chinese story and connected drinking game.
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Adsorption Characteristics and Mechanisms of Dibutyl Phthalate on Nanomaterials

Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Dibutyl phthalate (DBP) is a widely used plasticizer whose environmental release poses significant risks to ecosystems and human health. This study systematically investigated DBP adsorption on three common nanomaterials—titanium dioxide nanoparticles (n‐TiO2), multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), and carboxylated MWCNTs (MWCNTs‐COOH)—using ...
Ying Wang, Haiyue Chen, Hongbao Liang, Hongwu Liang   +3 more
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The cost-effectiveness of increasing hepatitis Delta testing for individuals co-infected with HBV and HIV in the Netherlands

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Objectives: Chronic hepatitis D virus (HDV) infection accelerates liver‐related morbidity and mortality in people living with HIV and hepatitis B virus (HBV). In the Netherlands, HDV testing among HIV/HBV-coinfected adults is currently limited.
Shyevon Marchena, Mehlika Toy
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Mind the gap – bridging the divide between the worlds of design education and commerce [PDF]

, 2011
A presentation on how the gap between design education and commerce is bridged at The University of Northampton at a conference focusing on teaching and learning in Ufa, Bashkortostan ...
Thomas, Vicki
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Exact time-dependent density functional theory for impurity models

, 2012
We employ the density matrix renormalization group to construct the exact time-dependent exchange correlation potential for an impurity model with an applied transport voltage.
Baer, Bergfield, Bohr, Bohr, Borda, Boulat, Boulat, Branschädel, Branschädel, Carr, Daley, Dzierzawa, Filyov, Gunnarsson, Karrasch, Koentopp, Li, Lima, Lindsay, Mehta, Mera, Mera, Michael Dzierzawa, Moliner, Perfetto, Peter Schmitteckert, Peter Schwab, Ruggenthaler, Runge, Schenk, Schenk, Schmitteckert, Schmitteckert, Schönhammer, Schönhammer, Stefanucci, Stefanucci, Tokatly, Tröster, Uimonen, van Leeuwen, Verdozzi, White, Wiegmann   +43 more
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Beyond Kahoot! Reflections and guidelines from a serial gamifying educator on when and how to effectively use games and game elements in anatomical education

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract According to Nietzsche, “In every real [adult], a child is hidden that wants to play.” In everyday life, playfulness and competition can make routine or dull tasks more engaging and can offer educators opportunities to engage a learner in a more entertaining or interactive manner.
Judi Laprade
wiley   +1 more source

“Basic human things”: Investigating vehicle residents' continually fractured (information) landscapes

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This ethnographic study explores vehicle residents' information practices in the United States (US). Vehicle residents are people whose primary means of housing is a vehicle. This work builds on previous research encompassing transitions and fractured (information) landscapes. Using fractured information landscapes as the theoretical framework,
Kaitlin E. Montague
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Percolation Model of Insider Threats to Assess the Optimum Number of Rules

, 2014
Rules, regulations, and policies are the basis of civilized society and are used to coordinate the activities of individuals who have a variety of goals and purposes.
Gadepally, Vijay, Kepner, Jeremy, Michaleas, Pete   +2 more
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Signifier of Kiwi Identity [PDF]

, 2019
Contested myths of origin surround one of New Zealand’s best-loved cultural icons, or ‘kiwiana’: a pull-along children’s toy called the Buzzy Bee. This paper clarifies those domains by presenting new information gleaned from Betty Schlesinger, widow of ...
Neill, Lindsay, Waring, Marilyn
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Toy-Based Technologies for Children with Disabilities Simultaneously Supporting Self-Directed Mobility, Participation, and Function: A Tech Report

Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2017
Go Baby Go is a community-based outreach, research, and clinical treatment program that works with families, clinicians, service providers and industry to provide pediatric equipment to children with disabilities for movement, mobility and socialization.
S. Logan, H. Feldner, Kathleen R. Bogart, Brianna Goodwin, S. Ross, M. Catena, Austin A. Whitesell, Zachary J. Sefton, W. Smart, J. C. Galloway   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source