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Antarctic Marine Biodiversity
Animals living in the Southern Ocean have evolved in a singular environment. It shares many of its attributes with the high Arctic, namely low, stable temperatures, the pervading effect of ice in its many forms and extreme seasonality of light and phytobiont productivity. Antarctica is, however, the most isolated continent on Earth and is the only one that lacks a continental shelf connecti…
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Analytical Sociology amidst a Computational Social Science Revolution
As CSS and AS have matured, obvious connections between them have emerged. Both are keenly interested in complexity and emergence, whereby “the behavior of entities at one ‘scale’ of reality is not easily traced to the properties of the entities at the scale below” (Watts, 2013, p. 6; see also Anderson, 1972)
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American Anchor Artists and Festivals
Both intersected significantly with the Ohnos: Laage through Kazuo as the doppelganger of her dying mother and Fleming through both Kazuo and Yoshito but perhaps most significantly through Yoshito when he created and performed a duet with her in New York in 1991 (see Figure 3.1).
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Alternative Food Politics
In many cities, new uses of space for the purpose of growing food have emerged in the fi rst two decades of the new millennium. They can’t be classifi ed into any traditional spatial category.
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Bootstrapping Information from Corpora in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective
The achievements of Romance language corpus-driven studies deserve more attention from the scientific community at the world level for both their quantity and quality. This book contains papers given at the 3rd International LABLITA Workshop in Corpus Linguistics (Italian Department, University of Florence, June 4th-5th 2008 ), and it aims at integrating new ideas and results derived from Roman…
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K-pop Trans/nationalism
The Asian region not only constitutes one of the largest diasporic populations in the world but also the most diversified diasporas in terms of their historical trajectories of emigration, geographical spread, economic and political strength, socio-cultural integration in the host country, and transnational engagement with the homeland.
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Chapter 4 Obesity Is a Disease
Obesity is a subcortical brain disease characterised by the pathognomonic symptoms of excessive hunger and/or reduced satiation after a meal. Distinct subtypes of obesity are recognised, although the rising incidence of polygenic obesity resulting from incompletely elucidated gene-environment interactions is of greatest public health concern. Obesity complications are well documented; their rev…
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Chapter 4 Nursing a plague: nurses’ perspectives on their work during the U…
As part of the United Kingdom’s response to the escalating HIV/AIDS crisis during the 1980s, special wards and community-based services were established to care for people living with HIV/AIDS (PWHA). Much of the pioneering and innovative care developed at these centres can be attributed to nurses. However, UK nursing history has hitherto neglected to tell their stories. This chapter…
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Chapter 4 Numerical Modelling of Industrial Induction
Induction heating is a physical process extensively used in the metallurgical industry for different applications involving metal melting. The main components of an induction heating system are an induction coil connected to a power-supply providing an alternating electric current and a conductive workpiece to be heated, placed inside the coil. The alternating current traversing the coil genera…
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Chapter 4 'Now, back to our Virchow': German Medical and Political Traditions…
When the war was over in 1945, Germany was a country with no government, little functioning infrastructure, millions of refugees and homeless people, and huge foreign armies living largely off the land. Large parts of the country were covered in rubble, with no clean drinking water, electricity, or gas. Hospitals overflowed with patients, but were short of beds, medicines, and medical personnel…
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