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Systemic bio‐inequity links poverty to biodiversity and induces a conservation paradox
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Biodiversity is declining globally while inequity is growing, and poverty rates are not improving. Global sustainable development and conservation initiatives aim to address biodiversity loss and poverty simultaneously. Through text analysis of global biodiversity policies, we identified a consistent narrative that countries with high ...
Conor Waldock +4 more
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Neolithic and chalcolithic cultures in Turkish Thrace [PDF]
, 2001 The subject of this thesis are the Neolithic and Chalcolithic cultures in Turkish Thrace. Turkish Thrace acts as a land bridge between the Balkans and Anatolia. Along this land bridge it might be expected that there has been a transfer of ideas, exchange
Erdogu, Burcin
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.The use of wild edible plants and the traditional knowledge associated with them are rapidly disappearing across the Mediterranean, with serious consequences for biodiversity, cultural heritage, and regional food security. This study compiles and organizes fragmented information to create the first comprehensive catalogue of these plants across the ...
Benedetta Gori +5 more
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Maritime networks as a vector for early farming/language dispersals: A comparative review
Quaternary Environments and HumansMaritime networks have been proposed as a mechanism for early agricultural and, by extension, language dispersals in several coastal and island regions.
Mark Hudson +7 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.For generations, Mediterranean communities have used Lamiaceae or Labiatae plants like rosemary, thyme or mint to care for their health and to enrich their food. By bringing together dispersed knowledge from across the Mediterranean region, our review revealed the continuing relevance of Lamiaceae while also compiling past uses that may hold future ...
Fuencisla Cáceres +3 more
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A cognitive semantic analysis of two ancient near eastern creation narratives : the great hymn to Khnum and Genesis 2:7 [PDF]
, 2022 This study sets out to explore the role of embodied cognition and lived experience in the construction of meaning in religious texts dealing with supernatural abstract agents and counterintuitive acts of divinity.
Raison, Jolene
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Tracing change in the public perception of plants: insights from archives and social media in China
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.As urbanization accelerates, historic gardens serve as vital cultural treasures that offer spiritual and cultural support to the public. This study proposes an innovative approach that merges historical records from the Qing Dynasty with contemporary social media data to explore changes in public perceptions of these gardens.
Dong Xu +4 more
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New Initiatives in Diachronic Linguistics : Atlases of Language and Culture [PDF]
, 2019 This paper deals with two recent initiatives within diachronic linguistics, where earlier seminal work by Academician Prof. Tamaz Gamkrelidze and his colleagues (Gamkrelidze and Ivanov 1984, Gamkrelidze, Ivanov and Winter 1995) have been of fundamental ...
Vamling, Karina
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Sounds of war: Historical, chronological and literary implications of military vocabulary in exodus 15, judges 5 and 1 Samuel 17 [PDF]
, 2008 The trend in linguistic studies in the mid-to-late 20th century has been towards establishing dates of composition for an archaic layer of Biblical Hebrew attested in the Massoretic Text.
Nikkel, Paul N
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Functional similarities between bimanual coordination and topic/comment structure [PDF]
, 2007 Human manual action exhibits a differential use of a non-dominant (typically, left) and a dominant (typically, right) hand. Human communication exhibits a pervasive structuring of utterances into topic and comment.
Manfred Krifka, Krifka, Manfred
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