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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Polymorphous"”.
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Application of Disorder-Induced Melting Concept to Fracture
… a comparison of the composition dependencies for polymorphous melting and intergranular fracture. The composition dependence for polymorphous melting is determined by sulfur implantation into nickel; Rutherford backscattering spectrometry is used to determine the implantation profile in thin-film …
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L'aîné vulnérable et la maltraitance à domicile : une problématique complexe
… We discuss a few generalities of this polymorphous phenomenon while criticizing it. Case detection is laborious because, in addition to the difficulties faced by professionals, the fact that general portraits of the protagonists remain to be clarified makes screening and protection of …
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An examination of the antecedents to small and medium enterprise co-operation, and their effect on network propensity and behaviour.
… to their propensity to co-operate with others. A polymorphous definition of SME sector co-operation is adopted in which it is possible for actors to co-operate with varying parties and in a number of capacities. Extensive use is made of univariate chi-square and multivariate logistic regression …
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Tourists' voices : a sociological analysis of tourists' experiences in Chalkidiki, Northern Greece
… from Chalkidiki suggests that the tourist is a polymorphous consumer, and that different types of tourists experience the same host community in different ways. Analysis of qualitative data obtained from eighty-six participants have been clustered into five types - the Cultural Heritage, the …
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Roberto Valcárcel: Renaming Repression and Rehearsing Liberation in Contemporary Bolivian Art
… that Marcuse attributes to art (via phantasy, polymorphous eroticism, and Orphic paradigm). On the other hand, it explores the strategies devised by Valcárcel against repression, such as self-promotion, multiple texts, play, humour and unmasking certain repressive truths. The reading of …
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Cryptic Secrets: Phantoms of the Haitian Revolution in the American Imaginary
… event, but as a complex, multivalent, and polymorphous phenomenon, with a circular, repeating energy. This ‘circular’ revolution is shown to resonate with different ‘American’ anxieties—anxieties regarding race, class, gender, sexuality, creolization, nationhood, and diaspora. Drawing upon …
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Poe's rhetoric of farce: protean language in the comic tales
… and crypto-kaleidoscopic features of his polymorphous prose. The method and scope of this study proposes a thoroughgoing analysis of his comic and <em>arabesque</em> fiction. These tales have been generally ignored by previous critics or else they have received insufficient documentation …
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True love stories : the tropical production and authorization of meaning
… sense of love. Love becomes open to all the polymorphous movement and play of the poststructuralist sign. Yet modern love is the tropical discourse that denies its tropicality, for modern love is love that claims that it is real. The credibility of this fiction can only be maintained through …
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Collective Action and the Production of Alternatives in the Crisis-ridden European South: Understanding the Politics of Commoning and Solidarity through the Greek Experience
… were contested by large protest events and polymorphous social movements. These expressions of collective action, most notably the so-called movements of the squares (Indignants), have played a crucial role in challenging the prevailing neoliberal crisis’ politics and opened up the way for …
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In vivo confocal microscopy of the cornea in health and disease
… Analysis of the corneal endothelium in posterior polymorphous dystrophy revealed that endothelial density does not correlate with the clinical severity of this dystrophy. Key observations included hyper-reflective endothelial nuclei and apparent aggregation of keratocytes around the endothelial …
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The head of chief Mkwawa and the transnational history of colonial violence, 1898-2019
… and internal movements of the skull, and the polymorphous quality imposed onto the head through a myriad of perspectives. In this dissertation, I argue that, as an artefact, Mkwawa’s skull shifted in meaning and significance as it transformed from a trophy of colonial conquest to a political …
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Establishing Nourishing Food Networks in an Era of Global-local Tensions: An Interdisciplinary Ethnography in Turkey
… to AFNs. They conceptualize this work as a polymorphous phenomenon of fragmented communities and a culture of dependency; but they show fortitude by negotiating multi-phasic actions and multi-vocal resistance messaging. By way of this study I illustrate that their cultural politics take …
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The design and analysis of sugar-based carrier systems for the protection of nucleic acids
… variability. This can affect authenticity of polymorphous and amorphous forms identified. Secondly, addition of raffinose and trehalose to amorphous sucrose formulations improved the predicted amorphous stability of the formulations however; these co-spray dried samples offered less protection …
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Investigating lesions of Langerhans cells and their role in Lymphoproliferative diseases
… using an X inactivation assay based on the polymorphous region of the Human Androgen Receptor. To improve understanding of the assay, a study on post-mortem material was undertaken. This demonstrated a unique insight into patterns of X inactivation across different tissues of the same …
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The Informal Economy in Lebanon: Dangers and Benefits
… associations. The informal economy is a polymorphous entity, and in order to determine its versatile contribution, has been separated into four different variables or key drivers. The four key drivers constitute the determinant variables of the informal economy. The main method used to …
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On-Demand Relay Communication Infrastructure for Base Station Connectivity
… none of the relay placement algorithms consider polymorphous networks with multiple topologies, due to terminal movement, unsynchronized wakeup schedule and packet forwarding policy; (b) all the prior work on relay deployment problems drop more relays than what is necessary, because they follow …
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Sexual Fantasy: A Hermeneutic Literature Review
Freud (1900/1977, 1905/1977) based his theories of unconscious and psychosexual development on the link between the undischarged libidinal (sexual) tensions and neurosis. He postulated that when a conscious imaginary wish fulfilment (fantasy) was unacceptable to the fantasiser, it became repressed. …
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Modeling of controlled-release drug delivery from autocatalytically degrading polymer microspheres
A mathematical model is developed for the simultaneous treatment of PLGA degradation and erosion and diffusive drug release with autocatalytic effects and nonconstant effective diffusivity of the drug. A mechanistic reaction-diffusion model with pore evolution coupled to hydrolysis and related to …