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WISDOM Project - III. Molecular gas measurement of the supermassive black hole mass in the barred lenticular galaxy NGC4429
(2018-01-21)As part of the mm-Wave Interferometric Survey of Dark Object Masses project we present an estimate of the mass of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the nearby fast-rotating early-type galaxy NGC4429, that is barred and ... -
WISE (world wide integrated software engineering): a summary of work in progress
(University of Hertfordshire, 1996)The WISE project, which is a collaboration between the University of Hertfordshire in the UK and Xerox International Software Operations (XISO), is investigating current practice in XISO global distributed project teams ... -
WISEP J061135.13-041024.0 AB: A J-band Flux Reversal Binary at the L/T Transition
(2014-05-28)We present Keck II laser guide star adaptive optics observations of the brown dwarf WISEP J061135.13−041024.0 showing it is a binary with a component separation of 0. 4. This system is one of the six known resolved binaries ... -
The Wishing-Tree of Isle Maree
(Oxbow, 2015-10-31)In April 2012, a ‘wishing-tree’ was created by a local artist on the shores of Loch Maree, Scotland; visitors to the tree were encouraged to attach ‘offerings’ of rags, ribbons, and wooden baubles. In isolation, this appears ... -
The Witch of Endor in History and Folklore
(2023-02-23)The Old Testament account in 1 Samuel 28 of how the Woman or Witch of Endor apparently raised the spirit of the prophet Samuel has been a matter of much theological debate for many centuries. Hundreds of scholarly articles ... -
Witchcraft accusations in France 1850-1990
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Witchcraft Accusations in Nineteenth - and Twentieth - Century Europe
(Routledge, 2019-12-24)On a popular level, Satan’s identity has always been fragmented into local variations. At times, the Satan of European folklore was a beast quite different from the Satan of the Church. The sharpest break in the traditional ... -
Witchcraft and the Somerset idyll : The depiction of folk belief in Walter Raymond’s novels
(2015-04)The work of Walter Raymond (1852-1931) is now largely forgotten. Yet his Somerset novels, complemented by his ethnographic writings, contain depictions of local witchcraft belief that are worthy of study in literary and ... -
Witchcraft Continued : Popular Magic in Modern Europe
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Witchcraft Historiography
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Witchcraft, Magic and Culture 1736-1951
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Within- and Between- Session Reliability of the Spider Drill Test to Assess Change of Direction Speed in Youth Tennis Athletes
(2017-09-20)Agility or Change of Direction Speed (CODS) is a critical physical attribute in a sport such as tennis, which is categorised by frequent and multiple changes of direction. Recently, a CODS test called the 'spider drill' ... -
Within-Person Variation in Personality and Psychological Well-Being
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-07-18)Personality is one of the most broad and complex areas in psychology. This has led to many researchers attempting to reduce this complexity by focusing solely on how habitual personality differs between each individual ... -
Wittgenstein and Communication Technology : A conversation between Richard Harper and Constantine Sandis
(2018-04-01)This paper documents a conversation between a philosopher and a human computer interaction researcher whose research has been enormously influenced by Wittgenstein. In particular, the in vivo use of categories in the design ... -
Wittgenstein and Diamond on meaning and experience: from groundlessness to creativity
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)The chapter deals with what is here called ‘an experience of limitation’. I introduce this term as a combination of what Wittgenstein describes, in ‘A Lecture on Ethics’, as the ‘running-up-against paradox’, on the one ... -
Wittgenstein and Lacan at the limit : meaning and astonishment
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019-01-01)This book brings together the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Jacques Lacan around their treatments of ‘astonishment,’ an experience of being struck by something that appears to be extraordinarily significant. Both thinkers ... -
Wittgenstein and Leavis: Literature and the Enactment of the Ethical
(2016-04-01)For Wittgenstein, ethics cannot be put into words. This does not mean he thought ethics cannot be made manifest; indeed, he took the best manifestation of ethics to occur in aesthetics, and more specifically in literature. ... -
Wittgenstein and the end of philosophy : Neither theory nor therapy
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)What is the ultimate value of Wittgenstein's input to philosophy? Opinions on this are strongly divided. However, most assessments rest on certain popular misreadings of his purpose. This book challenges both "theoretical" ...