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Tidsskrift for Islamforskning, 2023 The term koranskole has a prominent place in the public discourse on Islam and Muslim life in Norway. Despite being empirically imprecise, it is by far the most frequently used term in reference to non-formal Islamic religious education (IRE), but it is
Nora Sunniva Eggen
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Aggressive Encounters & White Fragility: Deconstructing the Trope of the Angry Black Woman [PDF]
, 2017 Black women in the United States are the frequent targets of bias-filled interactions in which aggressors: (1) denigrate Black women; and (2) blame those women who elect to challenge the aggressor’s acts and the bias that fuels them.
Jones, Trina, Norwood, Kimberly Jade
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TreeSpider: In‐Canopy Exploration With Tether‐Based Aerial Modular Arms
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.A tethered drone with perching arms and a 360° ring enables unprecedented maneuverability within dense forest canopies. By dynamically adjusting tether length and decoupling pitch from the frame, it navigates between branches, senses multiple trees, and interacts physically with foliage.
Luca Romanello +7 more
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The Rhetorical Algorithm: WikiLeaks and the Elliptical Secrets of Donald J. Trump [PDF]
, 2018 Algorithms were a generative force behind many of the leaks and secrets that dominated the 2016 election season. Taking the form of the identity-anonymizing Tor software that protected the identity of leakers, mathematical protocols occupied a prominent ...
Hallsby, Atilla
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Thermal Plasticity is Regulated by a Key MicroRNA During Range Expansion of an Invasive Fruit Fly
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Populations at the invasion front of Bactrocera dorsalis adapt through reduced phenotypic and gene expression plasticity, a phenomenon likely to be driven by genetic assimilation. We identify a key miRNA‐mediated regulatory axis, in which miR‐276b post‐transcriptionally represses thw, a conserved chitin‐binding gene critical to the cold‐tolerance ...
Yan Zhao +5 more
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The Theoretical Virtues of Theism
Philosophies, 2023 In this article, I seek to assess the extent to which a ‘trope-theoretic’ version of Theism is a better theory than that of a theory of Atheism, as posited by Graham Oppy.
Joshua R. Sijuwade
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The Perpetual Invasion : Past as Prologue in Constitutional Immigration Law [PDF]
, 2018 Donald Trump ascended to the presidency largely on the promise to protect the American people—their physical and financial security, their culture and language, even the integrity of their electoral system—against an invading foreign menace.
Lindsay, Matthew J
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Our promising smart window exhibits exceptional optical properties, enabling the indoor temperature reduction of 12°C during summer and delivering the annual energy savings of 14.2%–24.4% across mid–to–low latitudes. ABSTRACT Building energy consumption accounts for 20%–40% of global energy usage, with windows among the least energy–efficient ...
Cheng Wang +11 more
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Tropes, Causal Processes, and Functional Laws [PDF]
, 2014 My earlier attempt to develop a trope nominalist account of the relation between tropes and causal processes. In accordance with weak dispositional essentialism (Hendry & Rowbottom 2009), I remain uncommitted to full-blown necessity of causal functional ...
Keinänen, Markku
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, 2017 We present derivations of the contagion condition for a range of spreading mechanisms on families of generalized random networks and bipartite random networks.
Dodds, Peter Sheridan
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