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Throbber : Executing Micro-temporal Streams. / Soon, Winnie.

In: Computational Culture, Vol. 2019, No. 7, 10.2019, p. 1-52.

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Soon W. Throbber: Executing Micro-temporal Streams. Computational Culture. 2019 Oct;2019(7):1-52.

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Soon, Winnie. / Throbber : Executing Micro-temporal Streams. In: Computational Culture. 2019 ; Vol. 2019, No. 7. pp. 1-52.

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