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Oedipal Textuality: Reading Freud's Reading of Oedipus
Cynthia Chase
Diacritics·1979·9 citations
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View paper →Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan: The Politics of Omission
Sandra Dijkstra
Feminist Studies·1980·7 citations
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View paper →Do Artifacts Have Politics?
Langdon Winner
MIT Press·1980
In controversies about technology and society, there is no idea more provocative than the notion that
technical things have political qualities. At issue is the claim that the machines, structures, and systems of modern material culture can be accurately judged not only for their contributions of efficiency and productivity, not merely for their positive and negative environmental side effects, but also for the ways in which they can embody specific forms of power and authority. Since ideas of this kind have a persistent and troubling presence in discussions about the meaning of technology, they deserve explicit attention.1
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View paper →Theoretical Model for the Cooperative Equilibrium Binding of Myosin Subfragment 1 to the Action-Troponin-Tropomyosin Complex
Terrell L. Hill, Evan Eisenberg, Lois Greene
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·1980
Recent experimental data on the equilibrium binding of myosin subfragment 1 (S-1) to regulated actin filaments in the presence and in the absence of Ca2+ are analyzed by using a linear Ising model. In the model, each tropomyosin-troponin unit (including seven sites on the actin filament) can be in one of two possible states, which have different intrinsic free energies and different binding constants for S-1. Bound S-1 molecules do not interact with each other. There are nearest-neighbor (pair) interactions between these units that depend on the state of each member of the pair and on the number of Ca2+ bound to one member of the pair. There are two sources of positive cooperativity in this system: the fact that seven actin sites change state together as part of a single unit; and the existence of attractive nearest-neighbor interactions between units. Parameters in the model are evaluated by fitting the data, both in the presence and in the absence of Ca2+. Several extensions of this model are discussed.
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View paper →Romantisme ou barbarie : le romantisme anglais, une utopie du sujet
Paul Rozenberg
Littérature·1980
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View paper →The Gentle Slope of Castalia
Clive James
The New York Review of Books·1980
The very first book illustrated with photographs, William Fox Talbot's The Pencil of Nature (1844), carried as an epigraph a quotation from Virgil.
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View paper →The straight mind
Monique Wittig
Feminist Issues·1980·121 citations
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View paper →Low-lying electronically excited states of cycl[3.3.3]azine, a bridged 12.pi.-perimeter
Werner Leupin, Jakob Wirz
Journal of the American Chemical Society·1980·123 citations
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View paper →Patriarchy, Sexual Identity, and the Sexual Revolution
Ann Ferguson
Signs·1981
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View paper →Workers' Politics and the Mill Districts in Bombay between the Wars
Rajnarayan Chandavarkar
Modern Asian Studies·1981
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View paper →Little Malcolm and His Struggle against the Masses
Clive James
1981
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View paper →Selective adaptation of VOT in Polish
William F. Ganong, Patricia A. Keating
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America·1981
<jats:p>In order to test the hypothesis that selective adaptation and range effects in speech perception are produced by the same proccesses, we compared the size of range effects and adaptation effects for monolingual Polish and English subjects. Previous work has indicated that Polish speakers show much larger range effects in phonetic categorization of VOT than do English speakers. We therefore tested the adaptation effect of a +70 ms VOT stimulus on the perception of two apical VOT continua (ranging from −70 to +30 and −30 to +70 ms VOT). Eight monolingual Polish and English subjects participated. As in our previous work, Poles showed large range effects in categorizing VOT stimuli. (Their mean boundaries were at −3.4 vs 8.4 ms VOT.) They also showed substantial selective adaptation boundary shifts (mean = 18.2 ms), which were reliably larger than the adaptation effects shown by the English speakers (mean = 7.6 ms). Thus, the Polish speakers' perception of VOT is more sensitive than English speakers' to both selective adaptation and range effects, as a unitary model for adaptation and range effects would predict.</jats:p>
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