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JCC
2008
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Effects of spin-orbit coupling on magnetic properties of discrete and extended magnetic systems
: In accounting for the magnetic properties of discrete and extended compounds with unpaired spins, it is crucial to know the nature of their ground and low-lying excited states. I...
Dadi Dai, Hongjun Xiang, Myung-Hwan Whangbo
PRESENCE
2006
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Being There Together and the Future of Connected Presence
Research on virtual environments has provided insights into the experience of presence (or being there) and copresence (being there together). Several dimensions of this experienc...
Ralph Schroeder
SYNTHESE
2008
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Rebutting formally valid counterexamples to the Humean "is-ought" dictum
Various formally valid counterexamples have been adduced against the Humean dictum that one cannot derive an "ought" from an "is." There are formal rebuttals--s...
Daniel Guevara
CACM
1999
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OO Distributed Programming is Not Distributed OO Programming
centralized abstractions. The metaphor of a community of independent objects communicating by passing messages is misleading and dangerous when thinking in terms of a distributed s...
Rachid Guerraoui, Mohamed Fayad
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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Building the WorldWide Telescope
This paper is talks about the critical role that Jim Gray played in the creation of the WorldWide Telescope software. Contrary to what you might think it wasn't his database ...
Curtis Wong