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Showing 1 to 20 of 494 for “"strange"”.
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Strange Skies
… Wednesday," and a novel in progress, titled "Strange Skies."</p>
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Strange Measure
… proportion, symmetry and the meander. Allowing a strange measure, indeed, cultivating this irregular growth, a graphing of impulse, an impulse to graph.
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With Strange Aeons
With Strange Aeons is a contemporary diaspora story of alienation and stark choices. Wome, a quiet Cameroonian university graduate has just moved to New York City from Rhode Island to take up a job. There, he meets Shokare, a combative nonconformist who challenges him to break free of the "African …
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Functionalism and Strange Minds
This Paper details arguements surrounding the functionalism thesis in philosophy of mind, seeking to expand, critique, and clarify sections of the arguement with a special attention made to the physical constraints on what constitutes a sufficient realizer, the difficulties in multiple …
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Strange Attitudes on Top
This dissertation investigates how attitude verbs of belief and desire engage with embedded material of a similar nature. Chapter 1 looks at the (cross-linguistically unusual) Slovenian existential doxastic attitude verb dopuščati (‘allow for the possibility’) and the embedding of epistemic modal …
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Confinement in a Strange Hour
A collection of verse and prose poetry.
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Confinement in a Strange Hour
A collection of verse and prose poetry.
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Stories: Strange Men and Thinking Girls
What is the boundary between fiction and nonfiction? What happens if the line between the two is crossed? Can we possibly recall events in our lives exactly as they happened? In creative nonfiction, such as memoir, the audience expects the writer to recall things exactly as they happened, with no …
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"Strange Attractors" for orchestra
In mathematics, a strange attractor is a self-referencing, dynamical system which evolves over time into a subtle, complex pattern. It walks a fine line between complete regularity and utter chaos, never repeating itself exactly but always cyclically haunting the same paths. Like these transient …
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Sentimentalism Made Strange: Shklovsky, Karamzin, Rousseau
… meet to enact what I callSentimentalism made strange. Using estrangement (ostranenie), the literary device identified by Shklovsky, as an organizing principle, I investigate the cultural shift towards an underlying crude, elemental, and ultimately `savage' aesthetic that is treated in the work …
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The mass of the strange quark
… transform sum rules are used to determine the strange-quark mass. We use improved QCD input and experimental data to obtain for the invariant mass: mₛ= 266 ± 29 MeV, or for the running mass at 1 GeV: mₛ(1 GeV) = 194 ± 4 MeV.
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Things made strange : de︠st︡abilizing habitual perception
Technology mediates our perception of the world. The tools of contemporary society's digital habit aim for transparency, creating an inextricable link between the human body, perception and life-world. The resulting entanglement between humans and technology challenges the sensorium: illusion and …
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Strange duality on elliptic and K3 surfaces
The Strange Duality is a conjectural duality between two spaces of global sections of natural line bundles on moduli spaces of sheaves on a fixed variety. It has been proved in full generality on curves by Marian and Oprea, and by Belkale. There have been ongoing work on the Strange Duality on …
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Thinking Safety: Making the Familiar Strange and the Strange Familiar: Body/Space Investigations of Womens Safety in Cape Town
In this mini-dissertation, I investigate the manifestation of the political is personal, or rather the structural as personal, by examining what women's experiences within the city of Cape Town reveals about structural, social, and political structures as they relate to safety. This is done through …
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A Stranger in a Not So Strange Land
Fiction collection
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