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From:Anthropological Quarterly (Vol. 89, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe "ontological turn" presents an opportunity to re-examine anthropological engagements with various phenomena across multiple modes of existence. One possible terrain for engagement is the acute ward of a psychiatric...
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From:School Librarian (Vol. 61, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCremer, Andrea and Levithan, David Invisibility Penguin, 2013, pp358, 7.99 [pounds sterling] 978 0 141 34887 2 Stephen is invisible. He has always been invisible. He was born invisible. He doesn't know why....
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 86, Issue 3)O loveliness. O lucky beauty. I wanted it and I couldn't bear it. Back in the days before self-serve gas, when the attendant leaned over my windshield, I didn't know where to look. I could feel his damp rag rubbing the...
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From:The Science Teacher (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSkull Discovery Changes View of Early Humans Researchers from the University of Zurich have uncovered an intact skull of a human ancestor that is changing assumptions in paleoanthropology: Diversity two million years...
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From:American Scientist (Vol. 103, Issue 5)Almost a decade ago, the first scientific research on optical invisibility cloaking was unveiled, but in spite of a furious amount of theoretical and experimental effort, there are still numerous obstacles to overcome...
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From:Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSchool history atlases are used almost exclusively as required textbooks in Central and Eastern Europe, where the model of the ethnolinguistic nation-state rules supreme. My hypothesis is that these atlases are used in...
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From:Refuge (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Education plays a significant role in informing the way people develop gender values, identities, relationships, and stereotypes. The education of refugees, however, takes place in multiple and diverse...
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From:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 165, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTwo samples of hydroxyl-clinohumite, sample SZ0407B with approximate composition Mg8674(14) [Fe0.374.sub.(4)][([Si.sub.0.99(1)][O.sub.4]).sub.4][(OH).sub.2] and sample SZ0411B with composition...
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From:Michigan Academician (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Essential Is Invisible to the Eye: A Matter of Viewpoint in Mark Osborne's Little Prince. Sonia Badenas, Andrews University What if "the essential was invisible to the eye" just because you were not in the right...
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From:Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Vol. 116, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedA methodology for using a calibrated filter radiometer to measure and monitor the spectral radiance of calibration sources is described. An example is presented using the NIST calibration sphere source that is used to...
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From:Advanced Materials & Processes (Vol. 171, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedSeven years ago, Duke University, Durham, N.C., engineers demonstrated the first working invisibility cloak in complex laboratory experiments. Now it appears creating a simple cloak is a lot simpler thanks to advances...
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From:Mosaic: An interdisciplinary critical journal (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedConsidering "invisibility" as both subject matter and aestheticizing mode of experience, this essay uses the case studies of two American novels--Teju Cole's Open City and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man--to explore how a...
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From:Nature (Vol. 498, Issue 7455) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Ulf Leonhardt (corresponding author) [1] Over the past decade, invisibility has turned from fiction into science [1]. Yet invisibility cloaking is still a long way from being a practical technology. Ideas...
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From:Broken Pencil (Issue 80)GRETINGS! IT IS A FORTUNATE COINCIDENCE FOR YOU TO FIND ME AT THIS VERY MOMENT IN TIME. FOR I'M DR. FABULA AND I'M ABOUT TO ACTIVATE MY GREATEST CREATION. I HAVE BEEN EXPERIMENTING WITH TURNING THINGS INVISIBLE By...
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From:Advanced Materials & Processes (Vol. 168, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedHarry Potter's magical invisibility cloak may become a reality thanks to scientists at Michigan Technological University and Pennsylvania State University. They describe developing a nonmetallic cloak that uses...
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From:Critical Studies in Television (Vol. 5, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed'Chris Lilley gets "angry" with ABC television' announces the over-excited press release concerning writer/performer Lilley's latest comedy project which arrived on my desktop this morning (2 October 2009) direct from...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedVisibility and invisibility are fundamentally social categories that reflect and shape social acknowledgement, acceptance, and interaction. The relevance of intervisibility between urban dwellers as a mode of...
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From:Indian Journal of Surgery (Vol. 75, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPerforation peritonitis is the most common surgical emergency encountered by surgeons all over the world as well in India. The spectrum of etiology of perforation peritonitis in tropical countries continues to differ...
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From:Scientia Magna (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIf [lambda] is a nonzero isolated point of the spectrum of [k.sup.*]-paranormal operator T for a positive integer fc, then the Riesz idempotent operator E of T with respect to [lambda] satisfies [E.sub.[lambda]] H =...
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From:Critical Studies in Television (Vol. 5, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn this essay, I want to address, and complicate, an emerging body of work which has begun to consider how scholars' tastes impact on what gets studied in television studies. It has been argued that academia, as a...