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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"hoax"”.
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Monte Carlo simulations of a physical cryptographic warhead verification protocol using nuclear resonance fluorescence
… a template warhead is interrogated. Several hoax geometries are also compared against the template to show the protocol's robustness against cheating. Isotopic hoaxes in which weapons-grade plutonium is replaced with reactor-grade plutonium or depleted uranium are shown to be detectable in …
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Journalism's Revolution: Understanding Sience to Escape the Politicial Manipulation of Public Discourse on Scientific nd Environmental Issues
… real and caused by man" vs. "global warming is a hoax/naturally occurring phenomenon". The proposed theory requires an increased level of intervention on the part of the journalist that is both controversial and, in my view, justified. That intervention should be limited and based on the …
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A combined radiographic and time-of-flight method for zero-knowledge warhead verification
… method seeks to remedy information security and hoax resistance issues inherent in previously proposed zero-knowledge verification methods such as fast neutron radiography with preloaded detector arrays and NRF based methods. By using a combination of epithermal neutron radiography and …
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International economic effects of halting the voyage of CSAV RIO PUELO
… the government response later proved to be a hoax, the economic damage to particular businesses was quite real. This thesis explores the broad range of costs - direct, indirect and intangible - incurred by businesses up and down supply chains within the shipping industry. Because the United …
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Modern art for middle America : American abstraction in mass magazines, 1946-1960
… whether it was art at all or actually a highbrow hoax on middle America. As American abstraction gained support from art institutions and markets in the 1950s, magazines depicted modern art as commonplace consumer object, a stylistic choice that demonstrated both the consumer’s personality and …
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The Ubume Challenge: A Digital Environmental Humanities Project
… While this challenge is one of many recent viral hoaxes, “Momo” is not simply a product of our digital age. Known as the <em>ubume</em> (“birthing-woman”), the figure who provides the face for “Momo” has lived for centuries in Japanese folklore where <em>yokai</em> (supernatural creatures) often …
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Beneath Mark Twain: Judgments of Justice and Gender in Twain's Early Western Writing, 1861-1873
… and crafting what he called the “sensation hoax” for Virginia City’s Territorial Enterprise in 1862, Americans had been devouring sensational novels and journalism by such American writers as George Lippard, George Thompson, Ned Buntline, Emerson Bennett, and John Rollin Ridge for two …
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Contemporary art and the search for history—the emergence of the artist-historian
… truthiness, and then discusses those terms—from hoax to plausibility, from less true to truer—in the context of Zaatari’s and Park’s works. To contextualize the fictional narratives employed by the two artists, I use the terms docu-fiction (for Zaatari) and imaginary-documenting (for Park) to …
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FINDING VOICE: NARRATING TEACHER POWERLESSNESS IN AN AGE OF NEOLIBERAL SCHOOL REFORMS
… Oxford. Ravitch, D. (2013). Reign of error: The hoax of the privatization movement and the danger to America’s public schools. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Books. Scott, J. C. (1985). Weapons of the weak: Everyday forms of peasant resistance. New Haven: Yale University Press. Scott, J.C. (1998). …
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Fauxtopia
To all who come to this fictitious place:Welcome.Fauxtopia is your land. Here, age relives distorted memories of the past, and here, youth may savor the challenge of trying to understand the present. Fauxtopia is made up of the ideals, the dreams and the fuzzy facts which have re-created reality... …