Real-time shadow casting using fake soft shadow volume by Lee, Kong Weng, Daman, Daut

“…Since the introduction of shadow volume by Crow (1977), shadow map by William (1978) and then fake shadows by Blinn (1988, 1996), a lot of development has been done to improve shadow algorithm in real-time graphic application. …”
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Ongoing resolution of duplicate gene functions shapes the diversification of a metabolic network by Meihua Christina Kuang, Paul D Hutchins, Jason D Russell, Joshua J Coon, Chris Todd Hittinger

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The characteristic of corvus pectoralis’s complete mitochondrial genome and phylogeny analysis by Tian Huang, Libo Zhou, Zhenggang Xu

“…The Collared Crow (Corvus pectoralis), in the order Passeriformes, it widely distributed in large areas encompassing China and northern Vietnam. …”
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Freedom in an Age of Repression: The Role of Black Theology and Black-Produced Media in Forging Freedom by Wendy M. Arce

“…Starting with Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Duvernay's 13th, this paper illustrates how the media and the legal system have worked together to create a culture of criminality still imposed on black youth. …”
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The Humour-Pathos Link from Late-Victorian Aestheticism to Modernism and After in British Literature by Ioana Zirra

“…The modernist genial humour of Eliot’s 1939 Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats is contrasted with Tom Stoppard’s in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) and with the dark humour closer to pathos in The Life and Songs of the Crow (1970) by Ted Hughes.…”
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Rodzina słowiańskich wyrazów dźwiękonaśladowczych opartych na pierwiastku *gra-. Słowotwórstwo i semantyka by Krystyna Herej‑Szymańska

“…The basic meaning is ‘voice of a crow’, from which the utterance of such or similar voice developed, and then the name of the one who uttered that voice. …”
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“Trapped in a History Which They Do Not Understand:” Reading James Baldwin with Thomas Merton, Toward a Spiritual Theological Interpretation of Mass Incarceration by S. Kyle Johnson

“…This paper argues that Thomas Merton’s under-appreciated engagement with James Baldwin reveals Baldwin to be an essential resource for a theological account of mass incarceration and the spiritual sustenance of ati6on to dismantle the “New Jim Crow.” Merton highlights the religious insight of Baldwin’s conviction that white Americans are ravaged by a spiritual imprisonment that is concretized in distinct historical dynamics and which spell an apocalyptic foreboding. …”
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Estructuras comparativas intensivas en la Edad Media: el adjetivo checo ‘černý’ y el nórdico antiguo ‘svartr’ en comparación con el adjetivo español ‘negro’ by Xavier Blanco, Rafael García Pérez, Enrique Gutiérrez Rubio

“…We present and comment numerous examples that contain different second terms of the comparison, from the most frequent (pez ‘pitch’, carbón ‘coal’, cuervo ‘crow’…) to the rarest (olla ‘pot’, diablo ‘devil’…). …”
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 ‘Twisting herself into all shapes’: blackface minstrelsy and comic performance in Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig by Elizabeth Boyle

“…Using movement, costume and material props, Wilson imagines new ways to present her protagonist’s body through the minstrel stereotypes of Topsy, Jim Crow, Zip Coon and Jasper Jack. Wilson then turns the joke on her white readers, ultimately demonstrating that whiteness, like blackness, is a performative identity. …”
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Prevalence of lung metastases in head and neck cancer - A chest radiographic study. by N R Diwakar, G Rajeshwari, B Balaji Rao

“…Routine chest radiographs are the most common way of detecting metastatic disease (Crow 1981) 53. This study attempts to find the clinical prevalence of lung metastases from head and neck cancer in general and oral cavity in particular, using chest radiographs and review the selected related literature.…”
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Photographic Histories of the Civil War and the First World War and Rebirth by Mark Meigs

“…The Photographic History of the Civil War, published at the height of the Jim Crow era, with its hugely elaborate editorial structure, manages to deny the importance of slavery to the war and the importance of freed slaves afterwards. …”
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Wallmapu Rising: New Paths in Mapuche Studies by Sebastián López Vergara, José Antonio Lucero

“…The Mapuche in Modern Chile: A Cultural History. By Joanna Crow. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. …”
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The reinvention of vouchers for a color-blind era: a racial orders account by Hackett, U, King, D

“…This article brings an analytic-historical perspective rooted in racial orders to understand how education vouchers have been reincarnated and reinvented since the Jim Crow era. Combining original primary research with statistical analysis, we identify multiple concurrent and consecutive transformations in voucher politics in three arenas of racial policy alliance contestation: expansion of color-blind policy designs, growing legal and political support from a conservative alliance, and a smorgasbord of voucher rationales rooted in color-blind framing. …”

DETECTION OF Lawsonia intracellularis DNA IN ILEAL TISSUES OF DEAD WILD BIRDS IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA by Jung-Yong Yeh, Jeong-Min Hwang, Jae Geun Kim

“…L. intracellularis DNA was identified in the mucous membrane of the ileum in one Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo, Strigidae), two black-billed magpies (Pica pica sericea, Corvidae), and one jungle crow (Corvus macrorhynchos, Corvidae) among 745 dead wild birds examined. …”
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Isonimia y consanguinidad intragrupal: posibilidades de aplicación en la época colonial by Sonia E. Colantonio, Vicente Fuster, María del Carmen Ferreyra

“…Se verifica concordancia de resultados entre los métodos de Crow y de Pinto-Cisternas en Españoles y no en Indios y Mestizos, con la mayor discordancia en las poblaciones de escaso tamaño. …”
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Application of henry gas solubility optimization algorithm for short-term hydrothermal scheduling considering variable water transportation delay and penstock head loss by Sujoy Das

“…The simulation results have been compared with symbiotic organism search algorithm, ion motion optimization algorithm, crow search algorithm and sine cosine algorithm. …”
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Mothers’ Resilience: Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence Survivors at Work by Kathryn Showalter, Kathryn Maguire-Jack, Rebecca McCloskey

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Animal-sourced model of human norovirus infection predicted using environmental DNA metabarcoding analysis by Yukuto Sato, Jun Yasuda, Masahiro Sakurai

“…By focusing on the HNV-epidemic area in Japan, we found several bird species of ducks, pochards, carrion crow, and swan showing significant cross-correlation with the HNV detection from cultured oysters. …”
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“Are Not Our Interests the Same?”: Black Protest, the Lost Cause, and Coalition Building in Readjuster Virginia by Bryant K. Barnes

“…It represented an alternative path before Jim Crow segregation and disfranchisement became the norm. …”
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Absence and Presence: Nona Faustine and the Black Body in the National History of the United States by Karen Shelby

“…Her works invite viewers to participate in and interact with the built environment in new ways that acknowledge these public spaces as sites of nationalism intimately connected to the history of US racism – slave labour, Jim Crow, and police violence. In White Shoes, Nona Faustine contests dominant and entrenched national myths through the materiality of her body – her Black body. …”
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