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Effects of a phase transition on two-pion interferometry in heavy ion collisions at \(\sqrt {{s_{{\rm{NN}}}}} = 2.4 - 7.7\,\,{\rm{GeV}}\)
Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) correlations for charged pions in central Au+Au collisions at \(\sqrt {{s_{{\rm{NN}}}}} = 2.4 - 7.7\) ...
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Open AccessHarmonic flow correlations in Au+Au reactions at 1.23 AGeV: a new testing ground for the equation-of-state and expansion geometry
Correlations between the harmonic flow coefficients \(v_1\) v 1 ...
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Open AccessUnderstanding the energy dependence of \(B_2\) in heavy ion collisions: interplay of volume and space-momentum correlations
The deuteron coalescence parameter \(B_2\) B 2 ...
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Open AccessProbing chemical freeze-out criteria in relativistic nuclear collisions with coarse grained transport simulations
We introduce a novel approach based on elastic and inelastic scattering rates to extract the hyper-surface of the chemical freeze-out from a hadronic transport model in the energy range from E $$_\mathrm {lab}=1....
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Open AccessThe age distribution of mortality due to influenza: pandemic and peri-pandemic
Pandemic influenza is said to 'shift mortality' to younger age groups; but also to spare a subpopulation of the elderly population. Does one of these effects dominate? Might this have important ramifications?
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The E-Reader as Replacement for the Print Newspaper
This study examines the effects of a major metropolitan newspaper’s withdrawal from a city and whether an e-reader pre-loaded with a digital subscription to the newspaper would act as a replacement. In-depth i...
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Using Sexual Appeals in Advertising to Sell Cosmetic Surgery: A Content Analysis from 1986 to 2007
This study provides an account of how sexual appeals are used to promote cosmetic surgery. A content analysis of advertisements appearing between 1986 and 2007 in large city magazines reveals that advertisemen...
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Open AccessDoes Glycosylation as a modifier of Original Antigenic Sin explain the case age distribution and unusual toxicity in pandemic novel H1N1 influenza?
A pandemic novel H1N1 swine-origin influenza virus has emerged. Most recently the World Health Organization has announced that in a country-dependent fashion, up to 15% of cases may require hospitalization, of...
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Sex and the marketing of media
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How to get “kissably close”: Examining how advertisers appeal to consumers’ sexual needs and desires
This paper explores the nature of sexual appelas—sex-related promises or benefits—in mainstream advertising by describing types of sex appeals and findings from a sex-benefit content analysis. Overall, our fin...
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PORTRAYAL OF MARRIED SEX IN THE MOVIES
While media research has incidentally addressed the portrayal of sex between married partners, this study specifically analyzed how sexuality between married couples is depicted in popular films, as represente...
