NeuroTribes : The legacy of autism and how to think smarter about people who think differently / by Silberman, Steve, author 656044, Allen & Unwin (Online service) 656043

“…The perpetrators in Silberman’s telling are scientists, political leaders, and clinicians whose fixation on their interpretation of “normal” led to acts of deep cruelty and inhumanity against autistic people, deeds that span the spectrum from superficial to sadistic. The narrative arc is roughly chronological, stretching across time and highlighting some of the Big Non-autistic Names in autism’s long, strange and often terrible trip: Hans Asperger, Leo Kanner, Bruno Bettelheim, Bernard Rimland, Ole Ivar Lovaas, Lorna Wing. …”
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Towards a Prime Factorization of Proteins by Radev, Simeon

“…This is particularly the case in the richly complex field of protein analysis, whereby unique and novel insights into the structural organization of proteins can help illuminate their functional space, and in particular lead toward a factorization of the structural space into a set of motif building blocks, which completely span this universe. This thesis creates a new inference interface for performing such analysis, by leveraging the sequential learning process of a neural autoencoder to construct a decomposition of proteins as a hierarchical sequence of embedded representation vectors. …”
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Emotikon : audio production of the interpretation of human emotion through soundscape and music by De Cotta, Timothy Alexander, Long, Lyndsey Liting

“…We wanted to appeal to the various feelings of the listener in five songs that spanned a range of musical genres, and more ambitiously, try to manipulate how the listener was feeling in a short period of time.…”
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Survival of mammoths (Mammuthus sp.) into the Late Pleistocene in Southwestern British Columbia (Vancouver Island), Canada by Termes, L, Keddie, G, Hebda, R, Trask, P, Arbour, V, Speller, C, Paskulin, L, Ramsey, C, Richards, MR

“…We undertook radiocarbon dating on all specimens and were able to obtain dates (due to preservation) on 16 of these remains, including re-dating a previously dated mammoth using newer radiocarbon extraction methods. The mammoth dates span a wide range, from >47,500 to 18,000 radiocarbon years BP (uncalibrated). …”

The Viking Great Army north of the Tyne: A Viking camp in Northumberland? by Kershaw, J, Jarman, C, Weber, H, Horton, M

“…We argue that the site was strategically situated and long-lived, with evidence for occupation spanning the Roman to later medieval periods. We note, in particular, indications of high-status early medieval activity, which stand out in a Northumbrian context. …”

On the higher-order edge toughness of a graph by Chen, C.C., Koh, K.M., Peng, Y.H.

“…Besides giving the of the cth-order edge toughness τc(G) of a graph G, we prove that 'τc(G)≥k if and only if G has k edge-disjoint spanning forests with exactly c components'. We also study the 'balancity' of a graph G of order p and size q, which is defined as the smallest positive integer c such that τc(G) = p/(p-c). © 1993.…”
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Coda. by Zurianah Hashim.

“…The marriage between text and image has been used often in artworks spanning across different media platforms, channelled through various techniques for a multitude of purposes. …”
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Collaspe failure of layered composite pipe by Wong, Chee Kin.

“…Every layered composite pipe is designed to ensure safe and reliable performance during its operational life span. Through investigation on the collapse failure of the pipe, unnecessary catastrophic accident can be averted. …”
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The black swan of American Presidency : comparing Obama and Trump's foreign policies on Southeast Asia by Desker, Reesa Corrie

“…Within the span of a decade, America has elected two successive presidents whose personalities and visions stand far apart on the leadership and political spectrum. …”
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Predictive accuracy of the RSI in the shipping freight market (dry bulk sector) by Tee, Sandrina Jie Yi

“…Evidence from Singapore stock market” , technical analysis, with the Relative Strength Index in particular, has been shown to generate profitable trades through the Singapore Exchange over a time span of 21 years. This hence serves as a motivation for this study to test the accuracy of Relative Strength Index on the shipping market in hope of providing a useful tool for investors.…”
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Organizing and strategizing in and for extreme contexts: temporality, emotions, and embodiment by Hällgren, M, Geiger, D, Rouleau, L, Sutcliffe, KM, Vaara, E

“…Together, these perspectives illuminate how organizations navigate, adapt to, and construct extremeness through temporal, emotional, and embodied processes. The contributions span diverse empirical settings and theoretical frameworks. …”

Azadihomocorannulene as a heptagon-embedded diradicaloid by Hamamoto, Yosuke, Wang, Weifan, Li, Yongxin, Ito, Shingo

“…The synthesis was achieved through a mechanochemical C(sp2)-H/C(sp3)-H coupling in the presence of sodium as a key reaction. Electron spin resonance studies revealed that the neutral azapentabenzodihomocorannulene adopts a singlet diradical (diradicaloid) ground state with a small singlet-triplet energy gap of 2.1 kcal/mol. …”
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Magnetism in graphene oxide induced by epoxy groups by Lee, Dongwook, Seo, Jiwon, Zhu, Xi, Cole, Jacqueline M., Su, Haibin

“…Local density approximation calculation results well reproduce the magnetic moments obtained from experiments, and these results indicate that the unpaired spin induced by the presence of epoxy groups is the origin of the magnetism. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of reduced graphene oxide-based composites by Wu, Shixin

“…The conductive rGO films are fabricated by reduction of spin-coated GO films. By varying the solution volume in the spin-coating process, the film thickness can be adjusted and hence the film transmittance and sheet resistance can be controlled. …”
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Magnetic levitation using neodymium magnets for vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) II by Lai, Chunji

“…This project involved the design and fabrication of a test model vertical axis wind turbine, however as this experiment was carried out indoor without any wind condition, the author used a dc motor to simulate the wind required to spin the turbine. The advantage of this motor allows the author some control over the speed of the turbine. …”
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Singlet fission in organic crystals : ultrafast spectroscopic study by Ma, Lin

“…Singlet fission (SF) is a spin-allowed process in which one singlet excited molecule shares its energy with an adjacent molecule in the ground state, both molecules forming a pair of triplet states. …”
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Long-range Genomics Benchmark Technology and More by Polen, McKinley

“…In the context of genomics, where dependencies often span over 100,000 base pairs, the quadratic computational complexity of the attention mechanism, a core feature of the transformer architecture, poses a significant bottleneck. …”
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A Fifty Million Dollar Piece of Dirt: Somerville as a Case Study in Development by Aizman, Asya

“…This is a case study of twenty years in Somerville real estate development, spanning 2004 to 2024. Through interviews with residents, activists, and senior city officials, I present a story of a city attempting to rectify its progressive values with the forces of neoliberalism, which it seems unable—and unwilling—to stop.…”
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Mini suction probe for matric suction measurements by Meilani, Inge, Rahardjo, Harianto, Leong, Eng Choon, Fredlund, Delwyn G.

“…Matric suctions as high as 400 kPa were successfully measured on soil specimens over a time span of 15 h. On the other hand, the mini suction probes were also found to be able to measure a matric suction of 200 kPa for a longer period of 155 h.…”
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Indonesia’s mass killings of 1965–1966 : retrospective and requiem by Faizah Zakaria

“…Since the kidnapping and murder of six generals in the early morning hours of October 1, 1965, during an abortive coup attempt that the Indonesian Army alleged was masterminded by the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) – an event which served as a pretext for the mass violence that swiftly followed – academics and observers, within and outside Indonesia, have sought to uncover and explain its murky history in studies that now span five decades.…”
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