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    Evidence of swarm intelligence in collective cultures: Identifying the use of the swarm goal directive of productivity in Pacific organisation systems as well as getween genders

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    Intrigued by the existence of societies outside that of the human population, scientists have ventured to study social aggregations within insects to seek insights on effective colonizing. The most popular of these social aggregations are colonies of ants and bees. In studying these groups of social insects researchers have developed algorithms loosely termed swarm intelligence that increase work efficiency within businesses and other social organizations (Bonabeau & Meyer, 2001). A subsequent proliferation of research in surrounding fields has allowed for investigation of key variables that improve work on a global scale (Bonabeau & Meyer, 2001). James Kennedy (1999), an initiator of swarm research, has suggested that there is a high correlation between systems that rely on each other for information and greater task accomplishment

    The Invention

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    Wild

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    The day Summer disappeared, you were at home, feverish and ready for the phone to ring. You’d been waiting for that phone call all morning, hovering moth-like around the old-fashioned landline in the kitchen. Your friends liked to tease you whenever you used the ancient thing; the chunky, mustard-yellow receiver tucked under your chin, the ringlet cord that you absently twisted between your fingers while you chatted. Summer always said that you looked like the picture of 1980s adolescence when you picked it up, like you should be teasing your roots and giggling over a crush. [excerpt

    The Elephant Family

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    Eminent Domain and Oil Pipelines: A Slippery Path for Federal Regulation

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    The Importance of Spoons

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    Comments on M24_{24} representations and CY3CY_3 geometries

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    We show using string dualities that Mathieu moonshine controls Gromov-Witten invariants and periods of the holomorphic 3-form Ω\Omega for certain CY3CY_3 manifolds. We also discuss how the period vectors appear in flux compactifications on these CY3CY_3 manifolds and work out the connection between the sporadic group M24_{24} and the Yukawa couplings in four dimensional theories that arise from heterotic string theory compactifications on these CY3CY_3 manifolds.Comment: 27 pages, v2: minor additions, published versio
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