Nashe and satire by Stern, T

“…Showcasing his generic unfixity and unsettling personal exuberance, his most famous work, the proto-novelistic The Unfortunate Traveller, is a hybrid text which toys with different literary forms and styles, including satire, creating a new variety of fictional writing as a result.…”

Material application, performance and life cycle by Sulaiman, Shamsuddin

“…The articles which will be presented will therefore include application of structural materials like, steel, aluminum alloys, concrete, timber, glass, ceramics, composites etc. relevant to all form of buildings, aircrafts, domestic dwellings, machine components, domestic appliances, novelty goods, toys and so on. The section will also include articles which deal with important aspect of materials, namely, performance in service, property evaluation, design for critical functionality, service life evaluation, remnant life and failure prediction. …”
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Analyzing life narratives of transsexual people from a developmental point of view by J. A. Déri, E. Berán, L. Simon, V. Simon, E. Kovács

“…As a young child 55.7% claimed that they preferred toys and games of the opposite sex, whereas 7.1% claimed they did not. …”
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100 Years of Li & Fung : Rise from Family Business to Multinational / by Bang-yan, Feng, author 652338, Gale Group (Online service) 651863

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Natural coloration of wood material by red beetroot (Beta vulgaris) and determination color stability under UV exposure by Mehmet Yeniocak, Osman Goktas, Mehmet Colak, Ertan Ozen, Mehmet Ugurlu

“…Beetroot extracts may be used as an upper surface dyestuff for indoor application and toys. Therefore, alternative to synthetic dyes more economical and eco-friendly, wood paints may be developed.…”
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The Concept of Family in Advertising Discourse: Linguistic and Pragmatic Aspects by L. V. Sudina

“…The interpretation field was represented by such lexemes as furniture, gifts / toys, holidays, entertainment, recreation, sports, and car. …”
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Sex with robots: A not-so-niche market for disabled and older persons by Koumpis Adamantios, Gees Thomas

“…However, and while there is a growing industry for sex robots and other sex toys and gadgets, there is also a growing concern about the ethics of such an industry. …”
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How to apply Asimov’s first law to sex robots by Rigotti Carlotta

“…Specifically, Section 1 gives a brief overview on how to define sex robots, while distinguishing them from sex toys and pornography. Section 2 interprets Asimov’s first law in order to apply it to sex robots. …”
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Temari Balls, Spheres, SphereHarmonic: From Japanese Folkcraft to Music by Maria Mannone, Takashi Yoshino

“…Temari balls are traditional Japanese toys and artworks. The variety of their geometries and tessellations can be investigated formally and computationally with the means of combinatorics. …”
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The Influence of Smartphone Games on Students’ Self-Concept by Ya-Chuan Ko, Chi-Hung Lo, Yung-Chih Chang

“…The age at which a child handles a smartphone is gradually decreasing. Many traditional toys are increasingly being replaced by smartphone games, which have become an essential part of children’s lives. …”
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Dukken som animeret billede – mellem idolatri og idollatry, mellem dukkekult og dukkekærlighed by Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen, Pernille Leth-Espensen, Laura Katrine Skinnebach

“…We engage with dolls in order to learn more about their history and historiography, their forms of animation, scale, etymology, materiality, and liminal status between life and death. The article thus toys with the deepest heritage of the image: its animation, its play, and its ludic interactions. …”
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Play and childhood in ancient greece by Eliseo Andreu Cabrera, Mar Cepero, Fco. Javier Rojas, Juan J. Chinchilla-Mira

“…In Mediterranean countries, the climate was favourable for open-air play, which may have meant that it was possible to go without toys to have fun; the imagination developed with the natural surrounding elements, such as water, animals, flowers and shells. …”
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Gastrointestinal bleeding secondary to an incidental foreign body – a case report and literature review by Natalia Olszak, Tatiana Jamer, Marcin Rasiewicz, Agnieszka Borys-Iwanicka, Elżbieta Krzesiek, Tomasz Pytrus, Dariusz Patkowski

“…The increasing popularity of magnetic toys in recent decades has raised the incidence of magnet ingestion in the pediatric population. …”
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The Possible Relationship Between Law and Ethics in the Context of Artificial Intelligence Regulation by Livia Aulino, Maria Cristina Gaeta, Emiliano Troisi

“…The paper aims to critically analyse and compare these rule sets in order to understand their possible relationships in the regulation of legal problems, not only theoretically but also, where present, in some practical applications of AI, such as self-driving cars, smart toys, smart contracts and legal design. Indeed, the purpose is to identify how legal rules and ethical principles can interact for adequate regulation of AI, with particular regard to the fields of application that will be analysed. …”
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Cadrer sans yeux by Barbara Grespi

“…The article suggests some genealogical lines of this gesture, following the complex affective component of which it is imbued: the desire for control, that is expressed in the act of taking aim and potentially “shooting”, and the desire for magic, which is in part the pleasure of playing: using optical toys, a practice which belong to the prehistory of cinema, but also gambling in the amusement arcades, which involves taking a risk and confronting chance. …”
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‘Smashing crockery’ : objets cassés, objets-déchets dans la poésie de Derek Mahon by Marion Naugrette-Fournier

“…Mahon’s transitional objects, so to speak, act as new toys he has made his own, so that he could be free from any kind of attachment towards a community, and especially a Northern Irish one. …”
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Jejunoileal Perforation and Volvulus Caused by Multiple Magnet Ingestion by Serkan Arslan, Erol Basuguy, Hikmet Zeytun, Mehmet Hanifi Okur, Bahattin Aydogdu, Mehmet Serif Arslan

“…This is a case report of a 3-year-old child who swallowed multiple magnetic toys, subsequently developing jejunoileal perforation and volvulus. …”
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Miniaturizing monuments: Conrad Schick and his architectural models of the holy sites of Jerusalem by Nikolaos Magouliotis

“…They are considered as objects and artifacts of their specific context, and compared with the multitude of other miniature objects produced in the nineteenth century - from decorative knick-knacks to educational toys, and from cuckoo clocks to battlefield maps.Similarly, the aims of the analysis are twofold. …”
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El uso social del juguete en Ciudad Rodrigo: una aproximación etnográfica en la posguerra española by María José GONZÁLEZ RIVAS

“…The fieldwork is the main technique of data capture: written evidence like the Fernando Arrabal, oral evidence of the period craftsmen and the compilation of some postwar toys.</p>…”
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Gender dan Orientasi Seksual Waria: Faktor Pembentukannya pada Lingkungan Keluarga by Harpan Reski Mulia

“…This study shows that the family has a role in shaping the identity of transgender women, both indirectly and indirectly, namely by giving toys that are not by gender, providing bullying with the call of transgender. …”
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