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The adventures of Honey & Leon
Determined to keep their dads safe on their trip to France, two dogs disguise themselves and follow along.
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Hana-Kimi : for you in full blossom
Mizuki, a girl who pretends to be a boy at an all-boys school, finds it hard to keep her secret with such distractions as a snoopy reporter, a cross-dressing contest, a persistent photographer, and visits by friends who know the truth.
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Odisseu disfarcado na Odisseia : trabalho, efemeridade e sofrimento
En el presente artículo me propongo explorar de un modo general el êthos que Odiseo construye para sí mismo entre los cantos 15 a 24 de Odisea, cuando debe actuar disfrazado delante de Eumeo, los pretendientes, Penélope y, finalmente, su propio padre. En su comportamiento, podemos notar una evolución de su \"persona\", que el héroe ajusta a cada uno de sus interlocutores y situaciones, explorando especialmente temas tales como el trabajo, el carácter efímero de lo humano y el sufrimiento.
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Bee-wigged
A lonely, overlarge bee tries on a new identity for size in this tale of true friendship.
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MNC response to superstitious practice in Myanmar IJVs: Understanding contested legitimacy, formal–informal legitimacy thresholds, and institutional disguise
Superstition is a pervasive informal institution affecting the decision-making of organizational actors yet remains under-studied and ill-understood in international business research. We address this lacuna through examining how Western MNCs affect – and are affected by – the use of superstition among local subsidiary managers in an emerging Asian economy. Based on interviews, archival documents, and observation, our inductive investigation reveals a complex, changing, and surreptitious relationship between MNC practice and an informal institution which, while widely practiced, remains forbidden according to its formal institutional counterpart (Buddhism) and illegal according to Myanmar state law. Initial findings showed how MNCs endorsed, acquiesced, or rejected superstitious practice based on a configuration of construed reputational risk, corporate values adherence, degree of formal institution approval, and perceived local performance impact. Subsequent MNC engagement then shifted from accommodation to resistance to manipulation in response to local managers’ disguising their ‘superstitious’ practices as Buddhism, ‘blurring’ the formal–informal institution divide in the process to secure MNC public approval. Together, our findings serve to refine and deepen existing theory into how the MNC subunit can manage its legitimacy through balancing the incompatible demands of formal and informal constituents within a contested institutional dyad.
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Gorillas in our midst
Reveals that gorillas, those masters of disguise and experts at hiding, are all around us and invites the reader to seek gorillas of all ages in the illustrations, while carrying a banana just in case.
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Individual differences v. the average patient: mapping the heterogeneity in ADHD using normative models
The present paper presents a fundamentally novel approach to model individual differences of persons with the same biologically heterogeneous mental disorder. Unlike prevalent case-control analyses, that assume a clear distinction between patient and control groups and thereby introducing the concept of an 'average patient', we describe each patient's biology individually, gaining insights into the different facets that characterize persistent attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Using a normative modeling approach, we mapped inter-individual differences in reference to normative structural brain changes across the lifespan to examine the degree to which case-control analyses disguise differences between individuals.
At the level of the individual, deviations from the normative model were frequent in persistent ADHD. However, the overlap of more than 2% between participants with ADHD was only observed in few brain loci. On average, participants with ADHD showed significantly reduced gray matter in the cerebellum and hippocampus compared to healthy individuals. While the case-control differences were in line with the literature on ADHD, individuals with ADHD only marginally reflected these group differences.
Case-control comparisons, disguise inter-individual differences in brain biology in individuals with persistent ADHD. The present results show that the 'average ADHD patient' has limited informative value, providing the first evidence for the necessity to explore different biological facets of ADHD at the level of the individual and practical means to achieve this end.
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Flame in the mist
\"After an attempt is made on her life, Mariko disguises herself as a boy and infiltrates a gang of bandits known as the Black Clan, determined to hunt down the person responsible\"-- Provided by publisher.
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LIES IN DISGUISE—AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON CHEATING
We present a novel experimental design to measure honesty and lying. Participants receive a die which they roll privately. Since their payoff depends on the reported roll of the die, the subjects have an incentive to be dishonest and report higher numbers to get a higher payoff. This design has three advantages. First, cheating cannot be detected on the individual level, which reduces potential demand effects. Second, the method is very easy to implement. Third, the underlying true distribution of the outcome under full honesty is known, and hence it is possible to test different theoretical predictions. We find that about 20% of inexperienced subjects lie to the fullest extent possible while 39% of subjects are fully honest. In addition, a high share of subjects consists of partial liars; these subjects lie, but do not report the payoff-maximizing draw. We discuss different motives that explain the observed behavioral pattern.
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