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A Tropic Understanding of Street Art as Political and Social Advocacy [PDF]

, 2018
Graffiti and street art has been prevalent in the past few decades taking stances toward social and political adversity, but there lacks discussion about how dialogue is provoked within street artwork.
Kosel, Lindsay K.
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Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
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White reading Giambattista Vico: the false in the true and the ironic conditions of historiographic liberty

Práticas da História, 2018
This article deals with Hayden White’s chapter on Giambattista Vico’s tropological model of historical transformation, which is part of his seminal collection of essays Tropics of Discourse.
Maria-Benedita Basto
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Corpus Troporum Dataset: A Digital Catalog of Trope Elements in Medieval Chant

Journal of Open Humanities Data
We present a dataset of occurrences of so-called trope elements in manuscripts of European medieval chant. Trope elements are short melodic phrases interpolated in a fixed liturgical music repertoire and reflect changes and additions to liturgical chants
Tim Eipert, Corinna Bongartz, Fabian C. Moss   +2 more
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Matching a Trope Ontology to the Basic Formal Ontology

Philosophies, 2019
Applied ontology, at the foundational level, is as much philosophy as engineering and as such provides a different aspect of contemporary natural philosophy. A prominent foundational ontology in this field is the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO).
Richard de Rozario
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Black Feminism: Dismantling Tropes and Embracing Sisterhood

, 2018
This paper examines the usage of films like Set it off (1996) and Girl’s Trip (2017) and their sisterhood as friends as a way to dismantle tropes typically used towards Black Women.
Negron, Elaine
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Instantiation in Trope Theory [PDF]

, 2018
The concept of instantiation is realized differently across a variety of metaphysical theories. A certain realization of the concept in a given theory depends on what roles are specified and associated with the concept and its corresponding term as well ...
Fisher, A. R. J.
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A simple person's approach to understanding the contagion condition for spreading processes on generalized random networks

, 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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Change and the Poetics of Plenitude in Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery [PDF]

, 2015
The essay attends to a paradox found in some crucial poetic efforts by Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery. In some of their most important poetic works Stevens and Ashbery take on the task of positioning the poem toward the plurality of reality, the ...
Bartczak, Kacper
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The Bitter Taste of Brazil's Temporary Import Ban on Robusta Coffee

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Brazil, a leading Robusta coffee producer and exporter, faced a significant drought in 2016–2017, which drastically reduced production and depleted stocks. Consequently, Brazil temporarily permitted the import of one million 60‐kg bags of Robusta coffee in the spring 2017. An import ban was imposed shortly afterward due to lobbying by domestic
Hanifi Otgun, John Beghin, Fernando Maximiliano   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source