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Big stories about big squids: The story of the Britannia and the birth of a wartime urban legend
, 2020A popular urban legend from World War II involves the survivors of a sunken British troopship being attacked by a giant squid. The story of R.E.G. Cox and the giant squid he claimed that attacked him can be found in a wide variety of written and online ...
J. Dyer
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An Urban Legend (Myth) about A.S. Pushkin’s Visit to Mozdok
Vestnik of North-Ossetian State UniversityMozdok’s history contains significant, yet little-explored, chapters that generate widespread public interest. These chapters provide fertile ground for various speculations and popular myths, often rooted in plausible urban legends.
Ruslan G. Kukiev
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The backrooms and liminal spaces: Explorations of a digital urban legend
New Media & SocietyUrban legends form an important part of socio-cultural narratives of shared fears and anxieties, and their presence online has developed similarly. This contribution explores the online urban legend the backrooms and examines its narrative construction ...
Bradley E. Wiggins
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Is ‘There is no science where there is religion and there is no religion where there is science’ an urban legend?
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Is ‘There is no science where there is religion and there is no religion where there is science’ an urban legend?
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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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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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Urban legends series: oral leukoplakia
Oral Diseases, 2013To date, the term oral leukoplakia (OL) should be used to recognize ‘predominantly white plaques of questionable risk, having excluded (other) known diseases or disorders that carry no increased risk of cancer’.In this review, we addressed four controversial topics regarding oral leukoplakias (OLs): (i) Do tobacco and alcohol causeOLs?, (ii) What ...
ARDUINO, PAOLO GIACOMO +3 more
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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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Urban legends series: oral candidosis
Oral Diseases, 2012Candida species (spp) are commensal yeast that can only instigate oral infection (oral candidosis – OC) when there is an underlying predisposing condition in the host. We investigated four controversial topics on OC: (i) How can a microbiological determination of OC be made as Candida spp.
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Urban legends series: lichen planus
Oral Diseases, 2012Oral Diseases (2012)Lichen planus (LP) is a common disorder affecting the oral cavity (OLP) and skin. Despite intensive research, LP/OLP etiology and treatment remain controversial. We investigated four controversial topics: (i) Is hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection associated with LP and involved in its pathogenesis? (ii) Should all patients with LP be
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