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Discovery of dipolar chromospheres in two white dwarfs
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2023-08-09)This paper reports the ULTRACAM discovery of dipolar surface spots in two cool magnetic white dwarfs with Balmer emission lines, while a third system exhibits a single spot, similar to the prototype GD 356. The light curves ... -
Revisiting the theory of broken windows policing
(Lifescience Global, 2023-09-17)How has the academy contributed to the horrors of policing in the United States? While many scholars study policing, few do so from a self-reflective position, which would examine how the production of knowledge has often ... -
Exploring the internal rotation of the extremely low-mass He-core white dwarf GD 278 with TESS asteroseismology
(EDP Sciences, 2023-05)Context. The advent of high-quality space-based photometry, brought about by missions such as Kepler/K2 and TESS, makes it possible to unveil the fundamental parameters and properties of the interiors of white dwarf stars, ... -
Does informing citizens about the non-meritocratic nature of inequality bolster support for a Universal Basic Income? evidence from a population-based survey experiment
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Trickle-down racism: Trump's effect on whites’ racist dehumanizing attitudes
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Generalization in an evidence accumulation task
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Confronting racism of omission
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2023-10-18)The COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement have brought ethnic and racial inequalities to the forefront of public conversation on both sides of the Atlantic. However, research shows that people routinely ... -
Unhappy confucians, take heed! reading seoljam kim siseup’s geumo sinhwa as anti-religious propaganda-fiction
(Academy of korean studies, 2023-12-01)Against the backdrop of different texts from the collected writings of Kim Siseup (dharma-name Seoljam), this article offers an against-the-grain reading of Kim’s famous collection of strange tales Geumo sinhwa (New Tales ... -
Cataclysmic Variables from Sloan Digital Sky Survey – V the search for period bouncers continues
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2023-09-01)SDSS-V is carrying out a dedicated survey for white dwarfs, single, and in binaries, and we report the analysis of the spectroscopy of 118 cataclysmic variables (CVs) and CV candidates obtained during the final plug plate ... -
Evaluating LLP methods: challenges and approaches
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