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Being tough doesn’t always pay off: The culture of honor vs dignity in negotiation [PDF]
Early work on cross-cultural negotiation has focused on East-West differences. In the current study we investigate the negotiation scripts employed by Middle Eastern negotiators, more specifically Iranian negotiators, in an intracultural interaction ...
Adair, Wendi L +3 more
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A revised classification of Rubiaceae subfamily Rubioideae tribe Rubieae*
Abstract In its current circumscription, Rubiaceae subfam. Rubioideae tribe Rubieae consists of 18 genera, i.e., Asperula, Callipeltis, Castrila, Crucianella, Cruciata, Cynanchica, Didymaea, Galium, Hexaphylla, Kelloggia, Mericarpaea, Microphysa, Phuopsis, Pseudogalium, Rubia, Sherardia, Thliphthisa and Valantia.
Joachim W. Kadereit +1 more
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The Oldest Traces of Alcoholic Beverages in the Border Zone of the North and East European Plains
ABSTRACT Analysis of organic compounds preserved on pottery from the Bell Beaker community and the initial phase of the Trzciniec Cultural Sphere in the border zone of the Eastern and North European Plains was prompted by traces of alcoholic beverages found in contextually and formally analogous discoveries of more westerly provenance.
Dariusz Manasterski +4 more
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The four-eyed dog in ancient Iran
The four-eyed dog is found in the Yama cycle of the Rig Veda, where two four-eyed dogs lead the dead to the fathers in heaven. In the Avestan Videvdat, however, a white dog, spotted with yellow on the ears, plays an important role in the funeral rites, and among the modern Parsees it appears at the Sag-did ceremonies again.Ethnography supports the dog ...
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective
ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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There are about 11 days between the solar year and the lunar year, and about 5 days between the solar year and the 360-day year. Later calendars of various areas of the world have remainders of the 5th day, the 10th or the 13th day New Years, while some nations have remainders of the archaic New Years of the 8th or the 13th day of the 12th month ...
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Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic. [PDF]
Marsh WA +45 more
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Nationalization of Antiquities: Threats to Human Heritage Posed by Equating Modern Nations with Ancient Counterparts [PDF]
Vachon, Jack W
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Review: John R. Hinnells, The Zoroastrian Diaspora: Religion and Migration. Oxford: OUP, 2005. [PDF]
Hintze, Almut
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Crossing the threshold: a critical analysis of Levantine domestic architecture
Archaeologists studying ancient domestic architecture are often confronted with highly fragmentary architectural remains. This lack of data could lead to a focus on the visual comparison of floor plans as the most reliable and accessible source of ...
Brughmans, Tom
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