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Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2005
This discussion addresses a number of urban legends about concurrency in an attempt to separate the myth from the fact. These legends are as follows: 1concurrent = parallel; 2coroutining = concurrency; 3synchronization = mutual exclusion; 4Dekker < Peterson; 5concurrency = library; 6inheritance anomaly = major concurrency problem; 7signalling
Peter A. Buhr, Ashif S. Harji
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This discussion addresses a number of urban legends about concurrency in an attempt to separate the myth from the fact. These legends are as follows: 1concurrent = parallel; 2coroutining = concurrency; 3synchronization = mutual exclusion; 4Dekker < Peterson; 5concurrency = library; 6inheritance anomaly = major concurrency problem; 7signalling
Peter A. Buhr, Ashif S. Harji
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The American Journal of Psychology, 2007
Abstract We explored factors influencing the retelling of urban legends. As predicted by prior work, people retold truthful and scary stories. But people also retold well-known stories. This contrasts with the expectation that people would not pass on a story that everyone already knew.
Jean E, Fox Tree, Mary Susan, Weldon
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Abstract We explored factors influencing the retelling of urban legends. As predicted by prior work, people retold truthful and scary stories. But people also retold well-known stories. This contrasts with the expectation that people would not pass on a story that everyone already knew.
Jean E, Fox Tree, Mary Susan, Weldon
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2021
Abstract Everyday talk is central to how places become stigmatized and how asymmetric borders enter the popular imagination. This chapter explores the tales about Tijuana that proliferate in neighboring San Diego, based on a set of forty-five qualitative interviews conducted in six San Diego County communities between 2006 and 2008.
Kristen Hill Maher, David Carruthers
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Abstract Everyday talk is central to how places become stigmatized and how asymmetric borders enter the popular imagination. This chapter explores the tales about Tijuana that proliferate in neighboring San Diego, based on a set of forty-five qualitative interviews conducted in six San Diego County communities between 2006 and 2008.
Kristen Hill Maher, David Carruthers
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Nature Chemistry, 2010
Michelle Francl reminds us that even a rigorous scientific discipline such as chemistry has its own myths and legends — and explains why this isn't such a bad thing.
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Michelle Francl reminds us that even a rigorous scientific discipline such as chemistry has its own myths and legends — and explains why this isn't such a bad thing.
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Race and Justice, 2013
Elijah Anderson’s subcultural explanation for the adoption of the “code of the street” has directed scholarly attention toward specific cultural norms and scripts that encourage or sanction violence in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods. We provide an explicit test of the general assumption that the code of the street is predominantly endorsed by youth ...
Shelley Keith, Elizabeth Griffiths
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Elijah Anderson’s subcultural explanation for the adoption of the “code of the street” has directed scholarly attention toward specific cultural norms and scripts that encourage or sanction violence in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods. We provide an explicit test of the general assumption that the code of the street is predominantly endorsed by youth ...
Shelley Keith, Elizabeth Griffiths
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Urban legends: pemphigus vulgaris
Oral Diseases, 2012Oral Diseases (2012) 18, 442–458Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is the most common type of pemphigus. PV pathogenesis is still debated, and treatment remains challenging. We investigated five controversial topics: (1) What are the target antigens in PV? (2) Do desmogleins adequately address PV pathophysiology? (3) How does acantholysis occur in PV?
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Urban legends series: Sjögren’s syndrome
Oral Diseases, 2012Oral Diseases(2012)19, 46–58Sjögren’s syndrome (SjS) is one of the most common autoimmune rheumatic diseases, clinically characterized by xerostomia and keratoconjunctivitis sicca. We investigated the following controversial topics: (i) Do we have reliable ways of assessing saliva production?
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Parenteral nutrition and urban legends
Current Opinion in Gastroenterology, 2008To assess the recent literature regarding parenteral nutrition to identify publications that have purported to support various beliefs about the utility of parenteral nutrition, and then to critically evaluate the data presented in those (as well as prior) publications.Artificial nutrition improves nutritional markers but not clinical outcomes ...
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