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A Ternary Square-free Sequence Avoiding Factors Equivalent to abcacba
(The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2016-05-27)
We solve a problem of Petrova, finalizing the classification of letter patterns avoidable by ternary square-free words; we show that there is a ternary square-free word avoiding letter pattern xyzxzyx. In fact, we characterize ...
Local knowledge in community-based approaches to medicinal plant conservation: lessons from India
(2006-04-07)
Community-based approaches to conservation of natural resources, in particular medicinal plants, have attracted attention of governments, non governmental organizations and international funding agencies. This paper ...
Excitable speech: Judith Butler, Mae West and sexual innuendo
(Springer, 2001-04)
Working with Judith Butler's Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative, this essay pursues a series of questions on the performativity of speech acts, using sexual innuendo as an example. As performed by the provocative ...
Nevius, Lenaerts, and Sassenbroeck: Updates and New Ancestry
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2010)
Aaron Spence
(2013-06-19)
Eviction Prevention: Toolkit of Promising Practices
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2016-02)
This ‘toolkit and resource guide’ is intended to be a short, accessible guide for organizations wanting to help their tenants build long-term, stable tenancies. The toolkit provides an scan of tools used by organizations ...
Building a Legend: The 'Skinny' on the Slender Man
(2013-04-18)
This paper explores folklorist Richard Dorson's distinction between folklore and 'fakelore'—that is, folklore-like material that has been created deliberately and mass-disseminated, often for monetary or ideological purposes. ...
Squares and overlaps in the Thue-Morse sequence and some variants
(EDP Sciences, 2006)
We consider the position and number of occurrences of squares in the Thue-Morse sequence, and show that the corresponding sequences are 2-regular. We also prove that changing any finite but nonzero number of bits in the ...
Van Dongen: a new name in the ancestry of the Verveelen family
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2013-03)
A power-of-attorney granted by the New Netherland colonist Daniel Verveelen in 1658 mentions his "great-grandmother Catharina Jans van Dongen." This article examines the question of whether she was the same as his known ...
The Urban Aboriginal Peoples Study - 5 minutes
(2013-06-25)