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The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 549 citations till now.

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“Mona, mona, mona!” Whiteness, Tropicality, and International Accompaniment in Colombia

Sara Koopman
TL;DR: In Colombia, whiteness is considered desirable and attractive, and thus all the more important for women as mentioned in this paper The models in Colombian beauty ads are almost always light skinned, even blond, as are the news announcers Hair straightening, by means of vigorous brushing while using a hair dryer (un blower), is common and many women go regularly to the salon to get this done Blue and green colored contact lenses are another popular form of whitening (blanqueamiento) and social body codes like these are widely understood and manipulated.
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Evangelical fundamentalism : an historical-theological study

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of "uniformity" and "uncertainty" in 3.5.5 GHz frequency bands, respectively.
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Teaching the Aesthetics of Music Today

TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of Cook's conception of a musicographic network leads to thinking about the non-verbal existence of musical works and musical experience, and a discussion about the illusion of identifying music and language, by regarding language as communication.