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Engineering is often described as an enduring bastion of masculine culture where women experience marginality. Using diaries from undergraduate engineering students at four universities, the authors explore women’s ...

I Come Home to Myself is a documentary film following Marglucy and Faduma, presenting a portrait of their individual relationships to beauty and beauty work. The documentary contrasts the varied experiences that have shaped ...

Introduction: James Joyce is perhaps the most talked about and least read major writer in the English language. Virtually every modernist class and every book or article on Joyce eventually reaches a point where the professor ...

The neurobiological underpinnings of mood and anxiety disorders have been linked to the nucleus accumbens (NAc), a region important in processing the rewarding and emotional salience of stimuli. Using chronic social defeat ...

A number of studies have found a disjunction between women’s attention to, and memory for, handsome men. Although women pay initial attention to handsome men, they do not remember those men later. The present study examines ...

The field of dentistry has earned a reputation for being more prone to misdiagnosis and overtreatment than other medical subspecialties. This is driven, at least in part, by a professional culture that has traditionally ...

Deep learning networks with convolution, pooling and subsampling are a special case of hierar- chical architectures, which can be represented by trees (such as binary trees). Hierarchical as well as shallow networks can ...