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Chapter Releasing the Prisoners of Hope: Dante’s Purgatorio Breaks the Chai…
Beginning with a tribute to the late Chris 'Zithulele' Mann, a poet and activist who was deeply immersed in Dante, this chapter comments on some of the patterns that emerge from the creative contributions of the Dantessa students.
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Breast Cancer Imaging and Therapy
In Canada, survival from breast cancer has steadily increased since 1989, and breast cancer mortality has decreased by 48%. While 82% of women with breast cancer are diagnosed at stage 1 or 2, there are still 18% who present at a late stage and 25% who develop metastatic disease. Improved survival has been achieved through early diagnosis of breast cancer with screening, allowing for more effec…
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Chapter Relationship between shoreline evolution and sediment wear
Many factors can influence the shoreline retreat, such as: the maritime climate, anthropogenic actions like the construction of ports, dams, etc. To overcome this problem, it is necessary to understand the influence of each of the factors involved in beach erosion
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Chapter Reinventing the gastronomic experience
Food is a resource that provides a multi-sensory experience. It is experiential and becomes emotional, ritualistic, and symbolic. A two-way cultural exchange exists between food and people. On one hand, each culture’s cuisine is part of society, and gastronomy can influence the way we perceive food and society.
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Chapter Regret for the Time of Heroes and Existential Toska in Vladimir Vysockij
In the poetic legacy of Vladimir Vysockij, feelings of nostalgia are expressed in diverse ways, conveying various shades of boredom, longing, and melancholy.
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Chapter Regional-Scale Assessment of the Climatic Role of Forests Under Futur…
Chapter Regional-Scale Assessment of the Climatic Role of Forests Under Future Climate Conditions
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Chapter Regional variation in the distribution of property rights over land i…
Concentrating on the Western Anatolian district of Manisa and employing tax surveys dating 1575, this study points to the regional variation in property rights institutions, which resulted in different inequality regimes across space
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Chapter Referencing Conventions
The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to accommodate, seemingly without friction, the notion that cancer was a disease with humoral origins alongside the conviction that the malady was in some sense ontologically indep…
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Chapter Re-fashioning Industrial Revolution. Fibres, fashion and technical in…
The early years of the British Industrial Revolution were dominated by mechanical innovations in cotton spinning. They emerged at a time when raw cotton prices were unprecedentedly high and the supply of all-cotton fabrics from India, the world’s principal producer of cotton textiles, had contracted dramatically.
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Chapter Reducing inconsistency in AHP by combining Delphi and Nudge theory an…
A big issue of the AHP regards the inconsistency of the pairwise comparison matrices and here we propose a new method to reduce the inconsistency. As a solution we exploit the Nudge theory (Thaler and Sunstein, 2008) and from the second round of the Delphi survey, we calculate and circulate a Nudge to “gentle push” the experts towards more consistent evaluations
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