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Ai shen mi ma: Min jian nian hua zhong de qian li yin yuan = The code of the god of love : long distance romantic in new year pictures. Hangzhou Shi: Zhejiang gu ji chu ban she, 2011.
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Coke stop in Emo: Adventures of a long-distance paddler. Toronto, Ont: Key Porter Books, 1995.
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Lizak, Pawel. Minimum distance bounds for linear codes over GF(3) and GF(4). Salford: University of Salford, 1992.
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Bullough, Edward. La distanza psichica come fattore artistico e principio estetico. [Palermo]: Centro internazionale studi di estetica, 1997.
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Kuznecov, Sergey, and Konstantin Rogozin. All of physics on your palm. Interactive reference. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/501810.
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This is a unique visual book created by the best techniques of modern education. It presents the basic laws and formulas for all sections of physics with a huge number of interactive additions, explanations, illustrations, charts, graphs, tables, and drawings, allowing you to learn the material more efficiently. A clear and concise style of writing focuses the reader's attention in the target material, and numerous exercises, control questions and tasks allow you to securely fix in the memory the knowledge.
Additional materials for all sections of General physics course available to You on the Internet in ABS Znanium.com. Using your mobile device, scan the QR code and get it on your smartphone or tablet access to comprehensive information throughout the course of physics in the media formats.
In addition, on the YouTube channels "Salisylate and Isminimal from rocky" (from "the Russian Creative Internet") hosted a large number of additional training materials and videos used in this book.
Interactive Handbook is intended for use in the educational activities of teachers and students of technical specialties of full-time and distance learning forms, as well as students of technical schools and secondary schools.
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Jernigan, Jack D. An investigation of the utility and accuracy of the table of speed and stopping distances specified in the Code of Virginia. Charlottesville, Va: Virginia Transportation Research Council, 2001.
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Distant desire: Homoerotic codes and the subversion of the English novel in E.M. Forster's fiction. New York: P. Lang, 1996.
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Mario, Costa. L' estetica della comunicazione: Come il medium ha polverizzato il messaggio : sull'uso estetico della simultaneità a distanza. Roma: Castelvecchi, 1999.
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Mario, Costa. L' estetica della comunicazione: Come il medium ha polverizzato il messaggio : sull'uso estetico della simultaneità a distanza. Roma: Castelvecchi, 1999.
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Badon, Cristina, ed. «Ti lascio con la penna, non col cuore». Lettere di Eleonora Rinuccini al marito Neri dei principi Corsini. 1835-1858. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-132-4.
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Published here are two hundred of the approximately seven hundred unpublished letters that Eleonora Rinuccini, the last representative of her dynasty, wrote to her husband, Neri Corsini, Marquis of Lajatico. A daily correspondence over twenty-five years of a marriage lived mostly at a distance on account of his numerous political and administrative commitments and her family and social duties. The letters, which are conserved in the Corsini archive in Florence, bear witness among other things, to a marital relationship characterised by great affection. They also reveal to us a woman who was in many respects ahead of her time, in terms of her moral codes, her behaviour and her vision of society and the people who moved in it in the crucial years of the Italian Risorgimento.
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Pratolini, Vasco. L’ammuina. Edited by Maria Carla Papini. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-529-6.
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È alla fine degli anni Quaranta che Vasco Pratolini inizia a concepire il progetto di quel “romanzo napoletano” che persegue almeno sino al gennaio del 1952. Ripetutamente annunciato all’editore Vallecchi come imminente, il romanzo, a più riprese e in vario modo ideato, non fu mai pubblicato e, forse, come tale, neppure scritto. Tuttavia quel progetto torna ad affiorare e perfino a realizzarsi nel testo de L’ammuina, il trattamento che Pratolini scrive, agli inizi degli anni Sessanta, per il film di Nanni Loy, Le quattro giornate di Napoli. Ulteriore esempio dell’attività dello scrittore nel mondo del cinema, L’ammuina, a distanza di oltre cinquant’anni dalla sua stesura e dall’uscita del film, assume una dimensione del tutto autonoma rispetto alla sua originaria destinazione, tanto da poter apparire come il “romanzo napoletano” di Pratolini, quello che l’autore di Cronache di poveri amanti, di Metello, Lo scialo, Allegoria e derisione, e di tanti altri romanzi e racconti che hanno dato lustro alla nostra narrativa, aveva vagheggiato e che ora ci appare, sia pure in altra forma, nelle pagine de L’ammuina.
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Macrí, Oreste, and Vittorio Pagano. Lettere 1942-1978. Edited by Dario Collini. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-369-8.
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Sullo sfondo delle ‘dimore vitali’ di Lecce, Parma e Firenze tra gli anni Quaranta e Settanta del secolo scorso, spiccano in primo piano un autore pressoché dimenticato (poeta, traduttore dal francese, narratore) e il suo «maestro», tra i critici più agguerriti del nostro Novecento. Sono molte le storie che si intrecciano nei 142 pezzi epistolari raccolti in questo volume, accuratamente trascritti e annotati da Dario Collini. Storie personali – alle lettere è in primis affidato l’inedito e intrigante ritratto di un Pagano poliedrico, complesso, sfuggente – e storie collettive, come quelle di «Libera Voce» e del «Critone», tra le imprese culturali che contribuirono ad avvicinare la periferica realtà salentina ai maggiori centri letterari della penisola. Lungo un ampio arco cronologico, a palesarsi è anche la storia di una profonda amicizia, che senza la pretesa di annullare le distanze fra i due corrispondenti avrebbe continuato nel tempo ad alimentarsi di «gratitudine», «stima», «fiducia».
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Council, Virginia Transportation Research. Report of the Virginia Transportation Research Council on tables of speed and stopping distances contained in [section] 46.2-880 of the Code of Virginia to the Governor and the General Assembly of Virginia. Richmond: Commonwealth of Virginia, 2001.
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France. Code Napoléon: Conforme à l'édition originale de l'Imprimerie impériale; à laquelle on a ajouté les lois transitoires, le tableau des distances de Paris aux chefs-lieux des départements, et une table analytique et raisonnée des matières. Holmes Beach, FL: Gaunt, 2001.
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Code Book Area Code Directory, 1989: For Fast Long Distance Dialing. VIP Intl, 1989.
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Bendix, Regina F., Kilian Bizer, and Dorothy Noyes. Coda. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040894.003.0008.
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We began this book on a hiking trip, and mountains are conducive to allegory. Thus we could map interdisciplinarity in yet another way.We are coming from different places and distances to assemble at the trail-head. We are not quite clear about our destination: is it there, well-signed and...
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Forster, Chris. Coda. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190840860.003.0008.
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This brief coda compares two related Parisian anglophone publishers and their most notable publications: Jack Kahane’s Obelisk Press, publisher of Henry Miller’s The Tropic Cancer; and Maurice Girodias’s Olympia Press, publisher of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. It argues that the similarities and differences between these presses, and these novels, illustrate how the “end of obscenity” for books obsolesced the role of the transgressive continental English-language publisher. In both cases, the work published was at odds with how the publisher imagined its role—Miller actively sought to distance himself from the modernism that Kahane took as the justification of his press, whereas Nabokov took exception to being published alongside the pornography that Girodias celebrated. Each captures a tension between modernism, obscenity, and print as a medium.
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Doran, Colleen. A Distant Soil: Coda (Book 4). Image Comics, 2006.
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Doran, Colleen. A Distant Soil Volume 4: Coda Library Edition. Image Comics, 2006.
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Doran, Colleen. A Distant Soil: Coda (Book 4) Hardcover Limited Edition. Image Comics, 2006.
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Allen, Richard C. Quakers. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198702245.003.0005.
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Although the Toleration Act (1689) eased the position of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in many ways, the path towards full tolerance and acceptance remained rough. Their refusal to take oaths of allegiance meant that another expedient to demonstrate loyalty had to be found. Likewise, the refusal to pay tithes or to serve in the militia were also areas of contention. In an attempt to distance themselves from radical seventeenth-century associations, they sought to develop frameworks to provide for the internal regulation of the behaviour of their members. A number of popular customs, such as drinking and gambling, were regarded as inappropriate and there was a growing emphasis on the importance of marrying within the community. Although the enforcement of this code had an impact on the size of the membership, from the middle of the eighteenth century, Friends were increasingly involved in ‘respectable’ business and often did well within this context.
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Vedral, Vlatko. Decoding Reality. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815433.001.0001.
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For a physicist, all the world is information. The Universe and its workings are the ebb and flow of information. We are all transient patterns of information, passing on the recipe for our basic forms to future generations using a four-letter digital code called DNA. In this engaging and mind-stretching account, Vlatko Vedral considers some of the deepest questions about the Universe and considers the implications of interpreting it in terms of information. He explains the nature of information, the idea of entropy, and the roots of this thinking in thermodynamics. He describes the bizarre effects of quantum behaviour -- effects such as 'entanglement', which Einstein called 'spooky action at a distance', and explores cutting edge work on harnessing quantum effects in hyperfast quantum computers, and how recent evidence suggests that the weirdness of the quantum world, once thought limited to the tiniest scales, may reach into the macro world. Vedral finishes by considering the answer to the ultimate question: where did all of the information in the Universe come from? The answers he considers are exhilarating, drawing upon the work of distinguished physicist John Wheeler. The ideas challenge our concept of the nature of particles, of time, of determinism, and of reality itself. This edition includes a new foreword from the author, reflecting on changes in the world of quantum information since first publication. Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.
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de Guzman, Maria Rosario T., Jill Brown, and Carolyn Pope Edwards, eds. Parenting From Afar and the Reconfiguration of Family Across Distance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190265076.001.0001.
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The definition of family as a conjugal group consisting of parents and children living in the same household is in the process of a profound reworking, one that includes the constellation of family life that exists around the world. Increased migration and mobility have challenged traditional notions of what constitutes a family, yet much mainstream research relies on past notions of a cohesive unit under one domicile. Many families today are separated across distance and maintain ties in a multitude of ways. And although researchers have increasingly paid attention to this new picture of the family, much of this work has focused on transnational families separated in the context of overseas economic migration. In fact, family separation and long-distance parenting result from a multitude of reasons undertaken in various circumstances. This volume presents work from scholars who collectively show reasons that motivate parenting across distance, how families cope with separation and maintain ties, the impact of separation on family members, and how family is redefined and reconfigured in these various settings. By better understanding how we parent from a distance, this volume synthesizes ideas of kinship, relationships, and bonding and helps readers broaden their own ideas of parenting and family life.
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della Cananea, Giacinto, and Mauro Bussani. Judicial Review of Administration in Europe. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198867609.001.0001.
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This book is about judicial review of public administration. Many have regarded this as dividing European legal orders, with judicial review of administrative action in the general courts or specialized administrative courts, or with different distance from the executive. There has been considerably less comparison of the basic procedural and substantive principles. The comparative study in this book of procedural fairness and propriety in the courts reveal not only differences but also some common and connecting elements, in a ‘common core’ perspective. The book is divided into four parts. The first explains the nature and purpose of a comparison to understand the relevance and significance of commonality and diversity between the legal systems of Europe, and which considers other legal systems which are more or less distant and distinct from Europe, such as China and Latin America. The second part contains an overview of the systems of judicial review in these legal orders. The third part, which is the heart of the ‘common core’ method, contains both a set of hypothetical cases and the solutions, according to the experts of the legal systems selected for our comparison, to the cases. The fourth part serves to examine the answers in comparative terms to ascertain not so much whether a ‘common core’ exists, but how it is shaped and evolves, also in response to the influence of supranational legal orders as the European Union and the Council of Europe.
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Swim Lessons: Ten Secrets for Making Any Dream Come True. Clydesdale Press, LLC, 2003.
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Hermans, Hubert J. M. Positioning and Democracy in Teams and Organizations. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190687793.003.0004.
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On the basis of a review of literature, the impact of groupthink and the importance of a democratic atmosphere in teams are discussed. An example of leadership in teams is provided by the interaction between a successful coach and his team during a soccer world championship. Leadership on the level of the organization is explored by giving the example of two merging organizations and their problematic cooperation. Leadership on the level of a world organization is exemplified by an analysis of the successes and failures of the United Nations. At the end of this chapter the concept of “flexible democracy” is presented. In this concept two lines of exploration come together, one referring to the movements on the dimensions of power distance and emotional distance and the other referring to the connection between self, team, and organization.
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Tarsis, Mikos, Piero Nigra, and Enrico Galavotti - Piero Nigra. Dialogo a Distanza Sui Massimi Sistemi: Come Conciliare il Sistema Federativo Col Socialismo Democratico. Independently Published, 2018.
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Kulkarni, Kunal, James Harrison, Mohamed Baguneid, and Bernard Prendergast, eds. Intensive care. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198729426.003.0024.
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In the last two decades, intensive care has progressed significantly. The phenomenal developments clinically, academically, organizationally, and professionally during this relatively short space of time have all helped to define a specialty that has not only come of age, but also has established a distinct distance from its parent specialties. Intensive care in the UK now has an established Faculty and continues to forge ahead in expanding an independent research and evidence base. The field is rapidly changing, with cutting-edge ideas driving clinical progress. Through the papers considered in this chapter, various innovations are described that have had a direct impact on everyday clinical practice.
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Succi, Sauro. Transport Phenomena. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199592357.003.0004.
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The previous Chapter presented a discussion of the notion of local and global equilibria and shown that these equilibria represent the special forms taken by the distribution function once direct and inverse collisions come into balance. This Chapter provides an elementary introduction to transport phenomena and discusses their intimate relation to non-equilibrium processes at the microscopic scale. In particular it shall deal with the connection between the transport coefficients, such as mass, momentum and energy diffusivity with the molecular mean free path, namely the distance traveled by a representative molecules between two subsequent collisions. The discussion also highlights the fundamental role of inhomogeneity in fueling non-equilibrium processes.
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Rez, Peter. Transportation: Fuel Energies. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802297.003.0009.
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Transportation efficiency can be measured in terms of the energy needed to move a person or a tonne of freight over a given distance. For passengers, journey time is important, so an equally useful measure is the product of the energy used and the time taken for the journey. Transportation requires storage of energy. Rechargeable systems such as batteries have very low energy densities as compared to fossil fuels. The highest energy densities come from nuclear fuels, although, because of shielding requirements, these are not practical for most forms of transportation. Liquid hydrocarbons represent a nice compromise between high energy density and ease of use.
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Gelman, Andrew, and Deborah Nolan. Statistics diaries. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198785699.003.0015.
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Personal diaries typically contain many of the most important things in our lives. These are private reflections, and it can be hard to write down these things even to ourselves, let alone to share to others. In contrast, statistical topics are usually less private. Indeed, even when a topic is highly personal, a statistical framing can provide some comfortable emotional distance. This chapter provides examples of how to incorporate the use of statistics diaries into a course. It includes excerpts from students’ diaries, and shows how they can make each student come to life. We have experience using diaries for classes on statistical communication and graphics and on the design and analysis of sample surveys.
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Rez, Peter. Electrical Power Distribution. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802297.003.0006.
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It is very difficult to store electrical energy in sufficient quantities, and transmission over long distances results in unacceptable losses. Generation of electrical power therefore has to match demand. The peaks in electrical demand usually come from domestic rather than industrial consumers. Generating systems that are best left running continuously, such as nuclear, are used to meet the base load, which is the demand that does not change with time of day or season. Generally, anything involving a steam cycle is better suited to meeting base load demand. Gas turbines that can respond quickly are used to meet demand peaks.
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Faust, Avraham. The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841630.001.0001.
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The Neo-Assyrian empire—the first large empire of the ancient world—had attracted a great deal of public attention ever since the spectacular discoveries of the nineteenth century. The southwestern part of this empire, located in the lands of the Bible, is archaeologically speaking the best-known region in the world, and its history is also described in a plethora of texts, including the Hebrew Bible. Using a bottom-up approach, this book utilizes this unparalleled information to reconstruct the outcomes of the Assyrian conquest of the region, and how it impacted the diverse political units and ecological zones that comprised it, forcing the reader to appreciate the transformations the imperial takeover brought in its wake. The analysis reveals the marginality of the annexed territories in the southwest, and that the empire focused its activities in small border areas, facing the prospering clients. A comparison of this surprising picture to the information available from other parts of the empire suggests that the distance of these provinces from the imperial core is responsible for their fate, leading to a better appreciation of factors influencing imperial expansion, the considerations leading to annexation, and the imperial methods of control, challenging some old conventions about the development of the Assyrian empire and its rule. The detailed information also enables an examination of the Assyrian empire within the context of other ancient Near Eastern empires, and of imperialism at large, shedding a new light on the nature of Assyrian domination, and the reasons for the harsh treatment of the distant provinces. The book also examines what set the limits on the Assyrian empire, and highlights the historical development of imperial control in antiquity, and how later empires were able to overcome these limitations, paving the way to much larger and longer-lasting polities.
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Brown, Kathleen M. Gender Frontiers and Early Encounters. Edited by Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor and Lisa G. Materson. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190222628.013.8.
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Gender frontiers are but one starting point for comparing cultural contact zones and analyzing imperialism and racial formation in the early modern Atlantic. Recent scholarship on Native American and African encounters with Europeans suggests a need for a more complex analytical framework. Africans and Native Americans participated actively in creating this cultural frontier—by persisting in, adjusting, or transforming precontact practices or by assuming that the uninvited newcomers might share enough core beliefs and desires to be incorporated or vanquished. Europeans who participated in producing colonialism engaged in creative and destructive processes, but they remained connected to elite people in imperial centers that were buffered—by distance, money, and power—from such changes. The significance of gender frontiers is best understood as one phase in the longer historical processes they gave rise to: the emergence of new, syncretic cultures and populations, and the racialized and reactive cultures that quickly followed.
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Mills, M. G. L., and M. E. J. Mills. Socio-spatial organization and spatial ecology. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198712145.003.0010.
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Home ranges of males (1204 km2) and females (1510 km2) were similar. Female home range size was positively related to the dispersion of prey and generally, but not exclusively, they displayed home range fidelity. Overlap between female home ranges was extensive, although they rarely met up. Male home ranges overlapped extensively and there was no difference in size between coalition and single males. Males overcame the problem of scent marking a large home range by concentrating scent marks in core areas. Generally female cheetah home range size is affected by resource productivity, although where prey are migratory, or in fenced reserves where movements are constricted, and areas where disturbance is severe, this may be different. Southern Kalahari males apparently need large home ranges to increase the likelihood of locating wide-ranging and sporadically receptive females. Mean dispersal distance for subadult males (96 km) was further than for females (39 km).
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Ferrari, G. R. F. Storytelling as Intimation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198798422.003.0004.
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The chapter argues against a ‘conversational’ model of the relation between storyteller and audience, on the grounds that it puts the storyteller at too little distance from the audience. Although more overt than intimation at the half-on position (since the transmission is required to come across by recognition of the intention of the transmitting party), the storyteller’s intimation still lacks the complete overtness of full-on communication (since that recognition is only partial); hence its ‘three-quarters-on’ position. Contrast the full covertness of the quarter-on position, whose underlying form is: I want you to know (something), but I also want you not to know that I want you to know (that thing). Lyric poetry, which comes alive for us by masking its own artificiality, belongs here. A derivation is then proposed that makes mimicry fundamental to storytelling’s manner of intimation, rendering theoretical appeal to make-believe, imagination, or the authorial ‘persona’ unnecessary.
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Nelson, Ben A., Paul R. Fish, and Suzanne K. Fish. Mesoamerican Connections. Edited by Barbara Mills and Severin Fowles. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199978427.013.24.
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This chapter reviews the evidence for Mesoamerican presence or influence in the U.S. Southwest. Objects, symbols, and practices of apparent Mesoamerican origin, especially in the Hohokam region, include copper bells, macaws, shell trumpets, and other similar objects. The explanations that archaeologists have proposed for such presence come down to agricultural displacement, trade, and coercive domination. The review shows that Mesoamerican connections are of several different kinds, suggesting that there may be several different explanations. One explanation that is strongly indicated is the acquisition by local leaders of distant objects and symbols of supernatural power in order certify their ritual competence.
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Cabalquinto, Earvin Charles B. (Im)mobile Homes. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197524831.001.0001.
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The home is at the forefront of rapid transformation brought upon the expansion of globalizing economies, transnational migration, and the widespread uptake of ubiquitous digital communication technologies. This book unravels how geographically dispersed family members use smartphones, social media, and mobile applications in forging and sustaining long-distance relationships. It foregrounds the diverse, personalized, intimate, and creative mobile practices of fragmented family members in the enactment of everyday household interactions, festivities, homeland connections, and crisis management. On the one hand, mobile device use facilitates transnational connectivity, paving the way for enabling intimate ties, care expressions, and homeland linkages. Yet, communicative tensions also arise when digital routines are shaped by uneven familial expectations, differential financial conditions, asymmetrical technological access and capacities, work conditions, and migration policies and processes. It is by deploying various strategies that transnational family members cope with an often unstable, unsettling, and ambivalent networked environment. Ultimately, this book provides a nuanced perspective on examining the mobilization of a home from afar in the age of smartphones and mobile applications.
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Stone, Diane. Global Governance Depoliticized. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198748977.003.0005.
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In the diverse ecosystem of global governance, this chapter focuses upon networks and partnerships as depoliticizing tactics of global governance. Global and regional public–private partnerships alongside transnational knowledge networks of experts, scientists, and other professionals have emerged from dissatisfaction with the limited policy capacities of traditional institutions—states, intergovernmental organizations, and multilateral agreements—to cope with global policy problems. As new governance institutions, these networks and partnerships are not only tools of depoliticization that take the management of global problems to distant and technocratic administrative realms. Viewed as a type of ‘experimentalist governance’, these networks also represent venues of creativity and innovation on the global governance landscape.
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Carmo, Leide Silva do, and Nelson Iguimar Valerio. Psicologia & saúde treino de habilidades de vida e saúde mental em universitários. Brazil Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-87836-06-5.
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Several factors can cause damage to the mental health of university students, e.g. academic adaptation, housing change, distance from family and friends, and dealing with stressors regarding new requirements, which need some resources to cope with such situations. The content of this book, from the Master's Dissertation developed by the authors at the Stricto-Sensu Psychology and Health Post-Graduation Program at the Medical School of São José do Rio Preto - FAMERP, aims at describing the presence of mental disorders and demonstrating the implementation of a life-skills training in university students (Medicine and Nursing), randomly chosen in a teaching institution in a medium-sized city, interior of São Paulo state. The participants expressed high symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress in the initial evaluation, however, after the training of group life skills, they showed significant improvements with maintenance of these rates during the follow-up. This training can be stood out to improve the mental health and life skills of the students. It is likely that the intervention group may have helped these students to cope with negative pressures, avoiding risky behaviors, communicating effectively; moreover, coping with adaptations and changes in such academic process. It is worthwhile to point out that this study may encourage further research in relation to mental health and life-skills in university students, and that it will encourage the insertion of programs with these skills training, due to their effectiveness, low cost, the participants´ acceptance, improvement in mental health, and provide increasing academic performance.
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Schrijver, Karel. One of Ten Billion Earths. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198799894.001.0001.
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Illustrated with breathtaking images of the Solar System and of the Universe around it, this book explores how the discoveries within the Solar System and of distant exoplanets come together to aid understanding of the habitability of Earth, and how this guides the search for exoplanets that could support life. The author recounts how, within two decades of the discovery of the first planets outside the Solar System in the 1990s, scientists concluded that planets are so common that most stars are orbited by them. The twelve chapters highlight what we have learned about exoplanets and how the lives of exoplanets and their stars are inextricably interwoven. Stars are the seeds around which planetary systems form. Stars provide their planets with light and warmth for as long as they shine. At the end of their lives, stars expel massive amounts of newly forged elements into deep space. That ejected material is incorporated into subsequent generations of planets. How do we learn about these distant worlds? What does the exploration of other planets tell us about the history of Earth? Can we find out what the distant future may have in store for us? What do we know about exoworlds and starbirth, and where do migrating hot Jupiters, polluted white dwarfs, and free-roaming nomad planets fit in? What does all that have to do with the habitability of Earth and the possibility of finding extraterrestrial life? And how did the globe-spanning network of the sciences begin to answer all these questions?
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Staffel, Julia. Unsettled Thoughts. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198833710.001.0001.
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How should thinkers cope with uncertainty? What makes their degrees of belief rational, and how should they reason about uncertain matters? Recent research in epistemology has attempted to answer these questions by developing formal models of ideally rational credences. However, we know from psychological research that ideal rationality is unattainable for human thinkers. This raises the question of how rational ideals can apply to human thinkers. A popular reply is that the more a thinker’s imperfectly rational credences approximate compliance with norms of ideal rationality, the better. But what exactly does this mean? Why is it better to be less irrational, if we can’t ever be completely rational? And what does being closer to ideally rational amount to? If ideal models of rationality are supposed to help us understand the rationality of human, imperfect thinkers, we need answers to these questions. Unsettled Thoughts offers these answers: we can explain why it’s better to be less irrational, because less irrational degrees of belief are generally more accurate, and better at guiding our actions. Moreover, the way in which approximating ideal rationality is beneficial can be made formally precise by using a variety of distance measures that track the benefits of being more rational.
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Magnuson, Doug, Mikael Jansson, and Cecilia Benoit. The Experience of Emerging Adulthood Among Street-Involved Youth. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190624934.001.0001.
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The Experience of Emerging Adulthood Among Street-Involved Youth tells the story of young people who were street-involved from their early to middle teens and into their 20s, particularly their experiences of emerging adulthood while struggling toward young adulthood and independence. These youth experienced emerging and early adulthood earlier than other youth while living independently of guardians, detached from formal education, and working in the underground economy. After leaving their guardians they were choosing how to be different than their family, learning to cope with instability, and enjoying and protecting their independence, and they experienced some satisfaction with their ability to manage. As one youth stated, “away from my family, I learned that I was not stupid.” Their success was facilitated by harm reduction services, like access to shelter and food, that gave them time to experiment with living independently and to practice being responsible for themselves and others. Later they began to prefer nonstreet identities, and they began to think about their desires for the future. The distance between their current lives and those aspirations was the experience of feeling “in-between,” and progress toward their aspirations was often complicated by past experiences of trauma, current experiences of exclusion, coping with substances, and the mismatch between their needs and available services.
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Hay, John. Jack London’s Sci-Fi Finale. Edited by Jay Williams. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199315178.013.22.
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Jack London is often pigeonholed as a literary naturalist, but his interests aligned with a science fiction tradition. Over the course of his career, London increasingly set his narratives in the ancient past and the distant future. These fictional temporal environments provided him with new vantage points with which to explore the political relationship between individualism and nationalism, an exploration that intensified in his later work. His little-known 1912 novella The Scarlet Plague, one of the earliest examples of postapocalyptic fiction, reimagined the western frontier in a new age. Its combination of a doomed heroic individual and a struggling Darwinian population set the tone for American postapocalyptic tales to come. An examination of this novella in its historical and compositional context reveals it to be a significant step forward in London’s literary development.
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Barrett, James H. Medieval Fishing and Fish Trade. Edited by Christopher Gerrard and Alejandra Gutiérrez. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744719.013.5.
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This article discusses major developments in British marine (and to a lesser degree freshwater) fishing and fish trade between ad 1050 and 1550. Much information derives from study of fish bones recovered by archaeological excavation. Historical evidence is also important, as is information regarding human diet based on stable isotope analysis of skeletal remains. By combining these sources it is possible to infer the initial growth of marine fishing (especially of herring, cod, and related species), the emergence of long-range fish trade, and the late-medieval reorientation of traditional fisheries to harvest ever more distant grounds. Concurrently, it is possible to document a declining catch of freshwater fish, as they became more exclusively associated with elite consumption.
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and, Bruno. Spaces. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198725022.003.0007.
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To our introspection, space appears as a unitary, continuous, and uniform container for objects and events. In this chapter, we show that behind this impression are in fact multiple representations of space tied to multisensory and motor processes. Information about space is coded in profoundly different ways within visual, auditory, and somatosensory channels, yielding a multitude of spatial maps in the brain with completely different frames of reference. These maps need to be coordinated and brought into register within and across sensory channels to yield separate representations for personal, peripersonal, and distant space. The boundaries of these spatial representations are plastic, and can be modified by multisensory and sensorimotor processes and by the use of tools. Data from psychophysics, neurophysiology, and neurological patients are now beginning to identify the brain mechanisms behind these fascinating perceptual mechanisms at the subcortical and cortical levels.
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Fioriglio, Gianluigi. Il diritto alla privacy. Bononia University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30682/sg243.
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Nell’era di Internet il diritto alla privacy ha un ruolo fondamentale nel proteggere l’uomo dagli indiscreti sguardi della Società dell’informazione. I suoi dati personali possono essere acquisiti e trattati in modo sempre più perfezionato e invasivo grazie ai prodotti della ricerca scientifica e tecnologica, il cui incedere è molto più rapido di quello del diritto, che è oggi caratterizzato da molteplici criticità e dall’avvento di un ciberspazio che annulla le distanze e muta il concetto stesso di tempo. L’individuo, talvolta privo di strumenti giuridici che consentano di tutelare i propri diritti, si trova spesso solo nei meandri di una rete controllata da soggetti pubblici e privati nonchè di un mondo sorvegliato e informatizzato. In questo volume sono analizzate le problematiche che appaiono maggiormente idonee a incidere negativamente sulla riservatezza individuale e collettiva, nell’ottica di una società globale pervasa dalla tecnologia in quasi ogni suo aspetto. Nell’opera si mostra come sia necessario garantire il rispetto del diritto alla riservatezza, sovente proclamato quale diritto fondamentale eppure sempre più soggetto a violazioni in un numero crescente di fattispecie nuove ed estremamente delicate sia dal punto di vista etico che giuridico.
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Healey, Richard. The Quantum Revolution in Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198714057.001.0001.
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Quantum theory launched a revolution in twentieth-century physics. But we have yet to appreciate the revolution’s significance for philosophy. Most studies of the conceptual foundations of quantum theory first try to interpret the theory—to say how the world could possibly be the way the theory says it is. But, though fundamental, quantum theory is enormously successful without describing the world in its own terms. When properly applied, models of quantum theory offer good advice on the significance and credibility of claims about the world expressed in other terms. This first of several philosophical lessons of the quantum revolution dissolves the quantum measurement problem. Pragmatist treatments of probability and causation show how quantum theory may be used to explain the non-localized correlations that have been thought to involve ‘spooky’ instantaneous action at a distance. Given environmental decoherence, a pragmatist inferentialist approach to content shows when talk of quantum probabilities is licensed, resolves any residual worries about whether a quantum measurement has a determinate outcome, and solves a dilemma about the ontology of a quantum field theory. This approach to meaning and reference also reveals the nature and limits of objective description in the light of quantum theory. While these pragmatist approaches to probability, causation, explanation, and content may be independently motivated by philosophical argument, their successful application here illustrates their practical importance in helping philosophers come to terms with the quantum revolution.
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Porras, Ileana M. The Doctrine of the Providential Function of Commerce in International Law. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805878.003.0014.
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This chapter explores the doctrine of the providential function of commerce in the work of Francisco de Vitoria (c. 1492–1546), Alberico Gentili (1552–1608), and Hugo Grotius (1583–1645). In this chapter, I argue that the doctrine’s persuasive power lies in the interplay between two factors. First is the fact that while the doctrine is not in origin a religious doctrine, its elements and its narrative logic carried an unmistakable religious sensibility that became indissolubly associated with international trade. But the doctrine’s true efficacy lies in a more subtle internal effect. In essence, the doctrine, which holds at its core an act of exchange among distant peoples, allowed its adherents to idealize international trade by blurring the distinction between the act of commercial exchange and that of gift-exchange. In this manner, international exchange came to be portrayed as an act of friendship and community recognition, rather than a commercial act between strangers.
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Trotter, David. The Literature of Connection. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198850472.001.0001.
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This book is about some of the ways in which the world got ready to be connected, long before the advent of the technologies and the concentrations of capital necessary to implement a global ‘network society’. It investigates the prehistory not of the communications ‘revolution’ brought about by advances in electronic digital computing from 1950 onwards, but of the principle of connectivity which was to provide that revolution with its justification and rallying cry. Connectivity’s core principle is that what matters most in any act of telecommunication, and sometimes all that matters, is the fact of its having happened. During the nineteenth century, the principle gained steadily increasing traction by means not only of formal systems such as the telegraph, but of an array of improvised methods and signalling devices. These methods and devices fulfilled not just an ever more urgent need, but a fundamental recurring desire, for near-instantaneous real-time communication at a distance. Connectivity became an end in itself: a complex, vivid, unpredictable romance woven through the enduring human desire and need for remote intimacy. Its magical enhancements are the stuff of tragedy, comedy, satire, elegy, lyric, melodrama, and plain description; of literature, in short. The book develops the concepts of signal, medium, and interface to offer, in its first part, an alternative view of writing in Britain from the Victorian era to modernism; and, in its second, case studies of European and African-American fiction, and of interwar British cinema, designed to open the topic up for further enquiry.