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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"disguises"”.
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The Many Disguises of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Doyle (Sherlock Holmes, Fairies, and the Symbolist Movements in Art and Literature)
While fairies and Sherlock Holmes may not seem to have much in common, both were thought to be real by many Victorians. Most people are unaware that in addition to the Sherlock Holmes series, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote what he considered a non-fiction book expressing his belief in supernatural …
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The Science of Disguise
… and in the diversity and consistency of disguises applied to each subject. We provide an analysis of disguise performance based on both a highly-rated commercial face recognition system and an open-source algorithm available to the FR community. Finally, we put forth hypothetical models …
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Kalabari Masquerade and the gaze: identity and spectatorship in the sculptures of Sokari Douglass Camp
… are centered around a core male performer, who disguises himself by wearing an intricate costume. The costume propels the dancer into the mystical spiritual realm, where through the effectiveness of his performance he is believed to temporarily be possessed by a higher spirit. The single …
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Life Expectancy as a Development Indicator: Liaoning Province, China, 2000
… policy implication, because its numeric value disguises differences in education, economics, and health. It is likely for this reason, as well as due to the expense and unavailability of data, that China’s Liaoning province has been using GDP per capita as the main indicator of regional …
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In the Labyrinths of Deceit: Culture, Modernity and Disidentity in the Nineteenth Century
… self which is characterised by masks, disguises, madness, pathological behaviour, criminality and addiction. Examples of such paradigms for disidentity can be found in a variety of cultural texts and genres throughout the century, from the self-consciously 'high' poetry of Matthew …
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Flexible Privacy via Disguising and Revealing
… who owns 1% of all application data continuously disguises and reveals their account.
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"Ne canstu me noght knowe?": Disguise, Exile and Medieval Romance
… episode from the Tristan romances where Tristan disguises himself as a leper in order to create a conceivable story for Isolde to tell when she is brought to trial for adultery. Tristan and Isolde manipulate Mark and deceive him in order to keep their affair a secret, but in doing so, they also …
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Trust in Water: An Institutional Analysis of China's Urban Tap Water Provision System
… Matrix, arguing that such normalisation has disguises and justified not only the existence of the aforementioned concepts, but also the existence of the latent social injustice and consumer’s powerlessness. All of these analyses contribute to the form of consumer’s institutional distrust in …
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Sustaining Threat Narratives about Muslims and Arabs in Germany in The Post 9/11 Era: An Analysis of Showtime?s Homeland
… Extremism, and imperial feminism which disguises western violence. While the Dark Americana genre, a concept developed by David Martin Jones and M.L.R. Smith, supposedly questions state violence, my analysis of Homeland season one found that it reinforces justifications for state …
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Foreign direct investment & indigenization in zimbabwe's platinum sector: is the indigenization and economic empowerment act a deterrent to foreign investors?
… findings establish that the current framework disguises the regulation and implementation of state participation as indigenization. By doing so the State conflates two policies whose objectives are fundamentally divergent. One seeks to foster restorative justice and the other to enhance the …
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The Effects of Native Advertising Disclosure and Advertising Recognition on Perceptions of News Story and News Website Credibility: A Consumer Neuroscience Approach
… its definition - a paid form of advertising that disguises persuasive communications as the editorial content of the publishing media outlet. The growing popularity of Native Advertising practices over the past decade in online news publishing has contributed towards the increasingly blurred lines …
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The accessibility of English academic texts that were rewritten in plain language and according to document design principles: A Stellenbosch University case study
… of English as instruction medium preserves and disguises how language continues to be used as an exclusionary mechanism. The premise of the current study was therefore to propose an intralingual translation of academic English into plain language without compromising the content and accuracy of …
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Understanding the mentoring relationships of women in higher education administration
… second point is that Mentor was only one of the disguises Athena wore in order to provide advice and guidance to Odysseus, Penelope, and Telemachus. The second point may be interpreted to suggest that it takes more than one kind of person or relationship to provide the full range of support that …
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Is Talk Cheap in High Stake Trust Games? An Experimental Analysis of Decentralized Cooperation
… of strategically deceptive behavior that disguises intent or conveys unreliable information can lead to a disruption in cooperation. In order to investigate the nature of “cheap talk” (commitment signaling absent formal enforcement) in high stakes collaborative decision-making, we …
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Universal Burdens : Stories of (Un)Freedom from the Unitarian Universalist Association, The MOVE Organization, and Taqwacore
… Focus on “freedom” contra “unfreedom” obscures, disguises, or denies those “unfreedoms” upon which “freedom” is necessarily bound. Once those “unfreedoms” are exposed or recognized (whether violence, obligation, responsibility, dependency and interdependency, equality and inequality, needs, …
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The Use of Disguise in Shakespearean Drama
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Studies of lipoic acid and biotin metabolism in bacteria and higher eukaryotes
… required for this. The BioC methyltransferase disguises the substrate to allow entry into the fatty acid synthesis pathway by methylating the free carboxyl of malonyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP). When chain has been elongated to seven carbons, the disguise is removed the BioH esterase. Although …
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Inter-limb asymmetry: longitudinal monitoring and associations with speed and change of direction speed in elite academy soccer players
… ii) monitoring the group mean value (magnitude) disguises the inherent variability associated with asymmetry; iii) monitoring the direction of asymmetry allows practitioners to account for individual variation; iv) although relationships between asymmetry and speed/CODS/in-game soccer actions do …