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DACURA: a new solution to data harvesting and knowledge extraction for the historical sciences
(2018-07-03)New advances in computer science address problems historical scientists face in gathering and evaluating the now vast data sources available through the Internet. As an example we introduce Dacura, a dataset curation ... -
Damage Characterisation in Composite Laminates using Vibro-Acoustic Technique
(2020-09-10)The need to characterise in-service damage in composite structures is increasingly becoming important as composites find higher utilisation in wind turbines, aerospace, automotive, marine, among others. This paper investigates ... -
Damage to the right insula disrupts the perception of affective touch
(2020-01-24)Specific, peripheral C-tactile afferents contribute to the perception of tactile pleasure, but the brain areas involved in their processing remain debated. We report the first human lesion study on the perception of C-tactile ... -
Damage Tolerance of Rail Vehicle Energy Absorbers
(2012)Despite significant progress in the design of rail vehicles to ensure a high level of passive safety the effects of quality of manufacturing and assembly parameters on the local and global structural behavior in the event ... -
Damaged by Democracy : The National Union of Mineworkers and the 1984-85 Strike
(2011-06-01)This paper explores the democratic tensions within the National Union of Mineworkers that split the union during the 1984-85 strike over mine closures. In seeking to understand the conflict over the failure to hold a ... -
Damped Lyman-alpha Absorption from the Nearby Low Surface Brightness Galaxy SBS 1543+593: a Summary
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Damping measurements on a carbon fibre reinforced laminate
(KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, DEPT WERKTUIGKUNDE, 2006)By performing force-displacement tests in a universal testing machine it is possible to accurately measure the damping of a material. By providing accurate estimates of the damping for a set of given conditions, it should ... -
Dance confidence, age and gender
(2011)Dance confidence is a measure of domain-specific self-esteem as applied to how a person feels about their social and recreational dance ability. This study is concerned with how dance confidence varies as a function of ... -
“Dance like nobody’s watching”: exploring the role of dance-based interventions in perceived well-being and bodily awareness in people with Parkinson’s.
(2020-11-05)Evidence indicates that bodily perception is negatively related to Parkinson’s disease (PD); in particular, people with Parkinson’s (PwP) feel dissatisfaction in their physical abilities and appearance. While established ... -
Dance movement psychotherapy and group work
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Dance movement Therapy in the UK : a Field Emerging from Dance Education
(2001)Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) in the UK is derived from dance education, as well as other associated fields. Although DMT is growing in terms of numbers of practitioners and client populations, only very limited information ... -
Dance Psychology: The Power of Dance across Behaviour & Thinking
(2013-09)Psychologist and dance expert Peter Lovatt looks at some extraordinary facts about dance, including its health benefits, it's impacts on the way we problem-solve and the link between physical symmetry, sexual attraction and dance. -
Dancing, moving and writing in clinical supervision? Employing embodied practices in psychotherapy supervision
(2010)This paper takes a new look at the methods of embodiment for psychotherapy supervision. It makes a rigorous distinction between knowledge derived by language and knowledge derived by the body without the intervention of ... -
Dangerous Liaisons: Relationships between Design, Craft and Art
(2004-09-01)The title for this special issue takes its starting point from Choderlos de Laclos’ novel depicting the machinations, seduction and jealousies of a ménage a trois, a fitting analogy for the complex matrices of the affinities ... -
The Dangerous use of Inhalants among Teens: a Case Report
(2021-03-20)The recreational use of inhalants among teenagers and other vulnerable individuals is a growing cause of concern for clinicians. Products, such as computer dusters and spray cleaners containing highly toxic compounds, such ... -
The dangers of being trigger-happy
(2015-06-21)We examine the evidence offered for triggered star formation against the backdrop provided by recent numerical simulations of feedback from massive stars at or below giant molecular cloud sizescales. We compile a catalogue ... -
Dark and luminous matter in THINGS dwarf galaxies
(2011)We present mass models for the dark matter component of seven dwarf galaxies taken from "The H I Nearby Galaxy Survey" (THINGS) and compare these with those taken from numerical Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) simulations. The ... -
Dark matter in early-type spiral galaxies: the case of NGC 2179 and of NGC 2775
(1999)We present the stellar and ionized-gas velocity curves and velocity-dispersion profiles along the major axis for six early-type spiral galaxies. Two of these galaxies, namely NGC 2179 and NGC 2775, are particularly suited ... -
Dark matter in the dwarf galaxy II Zwicky 40
(1988-03-01)H I observations of the blue compact dwarf galaxy II Zwicky 40 at high angular resolution reveal the presence of two kinematical systems. The H I structure and kinematics can be understood in terms of two interacting H I ...