Soul-foods as pharmaka: female bodies and poisons in the Upper Rio Negro by Pedro Lolli, Geraldo Andrello

“…Setting out from the mythical genesis of tobacco, coca, paricá, and caapi (ayahuasca), we examine the relationship between these substances and diverse aspects of female bodies and their reproductive powers, suggesting that these psychoactives can be conceived as pharmaka in the classic sense of the term, acting both to increase a person’s vital force and/or to harm and kill. …”
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Virtual Immersive Models for Viewing Social Science Fiction in European Cinema by Federico O. Oppedisano, Daniele Rossi

“…In particular the study focuses on the enhancement of some European sociological science fiction movies. In this sense, immersive virtual reality, experimentally, has been used to realize and explore models capable of representing the quality of the space and emotional conditions present in the selected movies. …”
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Language in Flight: Memorial, Narrative and History in David Copperfield by Cathy Caruth

“…Yet if the novel thus dramatizes how traumatic origins can be represented in writing, it also asks what it means for autobiographical language to originate in a trauma. In this sense the novel is not only about the orphan who becomes an autobiographer, but about the emergence of a literary language when the self can no longer tell its own story. …”
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Knowledge as Film vs. Knowledge as Photo: Alternative Models in Early Soviet Thought by Steila Daniela

“…In particular, while discussing Einstein’s relativity, Bogdanov considers sense organs, memory, and all the apparatus of human knowledge ‘as a certain kind of cinematographic device’. …”
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Houses, Objects and Architects. Architectural Drawing in Children’s Literature by Alessandro Luigini

“…The historical-critical investigation has its scope of observation the strict contemporaneity and aims to organize taxonomically the works collected and observed, proposing a textual analysis (in a graphic sense) of categories identified through the description and exegesis of some emblematic cases. …”
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Convergence and Stability of the Split-Step θ-Milstein Method for Stochastic Delay Hopfield Neural Networks by Qian Guo, Wenwen Xie, Taketomo Mitsui

“…Under Lipschitz and linear growth conditions, this split-step θ-Milstein method is proved to have a strong convergence of order 1 in mean-square sense, which is higher than that of existing split-step θ-method. …”
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Optimal Stroke Path for Reciprocating Heat Engines by Mahmoud Huleihil

“…The purpose of this study is to determine piston trajectories that are optimal for noncombustion strokes in reciprocating engines, in the sense of minimizing frictional dissipation and hence maximizing efficiency and power. …”
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A Stochastic Restricted Principal Components Regression Estimator in the Linear Model by Daojiang He, Yan Wu

“…Necessary and sufficient conditions for the superiority of the SRPC estimator over the OME and the PCR estimator are derived in the sense of the mean squared error matrix criterion. …”
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Integrodifferential Equations of the Vector Problem of Electromagnetic Wave Diffraction by a System of Nonintersecting Screens and Inhomogeneous Bodies by Y. G. Smirnov, A. A. Tsupak

“…The solution is sought in the classical sense but is defined not in the entire space R3 but rather everywhere except for the screen edges. …”
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Le désert des héros : récits de vies solitaires dans les séries américaines de fiction by Joseph Belletante

“…For the last twenty years, American television series have left aside the topic of adventure in the sense of evasion in order to produce a new kind of hero. …”
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A Note on the Newman-Unti Group and the BMS Charge Algebra in Terms of Newman-Penrose Coefficients by Glenn Barnich, Pierre-Henry Lambert

“…The symmetry algebra of asymptotically flat spacetimes at null infinity in four dimensions in the sense of Newman and Unti is revisited. As in the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs gauge, it is shown to be isomorphic to the direct sum of the abelian algebra of infinitesimal conformal rescalings with 𝔟𝔪𝔰4. …”
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La culture, terreau de la nature by Hélène Melin

“…The Calanques of Marseille and Cassis constitute, in this sense, a shining example.…”
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Construction of Planar Harmonic Functions by Jay M. Jahangiri, Herb Silverman, Evelyn M. Silvia

“…Complex-valued harmonic functions that are univalent and sense-preserving in the open unit disk can be written in the form f=h+g¯, where h and g are analytic in the open unit disk. …”
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On the Ecology of Faith by Wiesław Sztumski

“…It concerns faith in a broad sense here, not only religious but also faith in ideals, in ourselves, and the confidence to other people and to different social institutions. …”
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Existence of Solutions for Singular Second-Order Ordinary Differential Equations with Periodic and Deviated Nonlocal Multipoint Boundary Conditions by Ahmed M. A. El-Sayed, Fatma M. Gaafar

“…This paper studies the existence of continuous solutions for a class of nonlinear singular second-order ordinary differential equations subject to one of the following boundary conditions: periodic-deviated multipoint boundary conditions, periodic-integral boundary conditions, and periodic-nonlocal integral conditions in the Riemann-Stieltjes sense. An existence result based on the Schauder fixed point theorem and Leray-Schauder continuation principle is used to obtain at least one continuous solution for the singular second-order ordinary differential problems. …”
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Polish mathematicians and mathematics in World War I by Stanisław Domoradzki, Małgorzata Stawiska

“… In the second part of our article we continue presentation of individual fates of Polish mathematicians (in a broad sense) and the formation of modern Polish mathematical community against the background of the events of World War I. …”
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John McHale, l’Amérique passée à la machine by Juliette Bessette

“…From this material, he produced several collages, twisting the iconographical sense of the fragments chosen by reusing them in new compositions. …”
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Analytic and Approximate Solutions of the Space-Time Fractional Schrödinger Equations by Homotopy Perturbation Sumudu Transform Method by Sara H. M. Hamed, Eltayeb A. Yousif, Arbab I. Arbab

“…The fractional derivatives are described in the Caputo sense. The solutions are given in the form of convergent series with easily computable components. …”
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The Lagrangian Stability for a Class of Second-Order Quasi-Periodic Reversible Systems by Yanling Shi, Jia Li

“…Then all solutions for the above equations are bounded in the sense of supt∈R|x′(t)|<+∞.…”
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End of the INF Treaty: Are We Entering a New Cold War Era? by Şafak OĞUZ, Mehmet Seyfettin EROL

“…The article argues that termination of the treaty would result in a conventional and especially a nuclear arms race as during the Cold War, and might trigger scrapping further agreements, although common sense in both parties enabled extending of the New START Treaty for 5 years. …”
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