Past, present and future of local crop evolution
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Promoting agrobiodiversity is a promising strategy for mitigating the negative effects of climate change on global food security. We highlight the central role evolutionary processes play in harnessing the potential of local crops by integrating genomics, archaeology, ethnobotany and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).
Nataly Allasi Canales +6 more
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Evaluating English translations of ancient Chinese poetry with special reference to image schemas and foregrounding [PDF]
Poetry translation evaluation from ancient Chinese to English has been subjective in China. This is caused by the indefinable and intangible notion of ‘poetic spirit’, which is often used in influential translators’ criteria, and by the lack of a ...
Ye, Mao
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Mythical Ancestry, Genealogy, and Nationalism in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Europe [PDF]
, 2018 The paper illustrates the survival, reconfigurations and the reuse known by genealogical discourses in Europe in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth century.
Bizzocchi R., Irace E.
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Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article is based on a study that examines the practices and perspectives of selected educational actors in Kalimantan, Indonesia, on climate change education. The region is highly affected by climate crises and holds global relevance for mitigation due to its tropical forests and peatlands.
Carla Hermanussen, Saritha Kittie Uda
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Can we hear what they heard?: the effect of orality upon a markan reading-event [PDF]
, 2002 This dissertation arises from recent investigations in the field of orality and the potential that it has for Markan studies. Chapter one identifies the epistemological divide which separates a contemporary reading experience from one situated in the ...
Smith, David F.
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Through Silence We Speak: Approaches to Counselling and Psychotherapy with Canadian First Nation Clients [PDF]
, 2015 Canadian First Nations are composed of 53 different cultures. Their key forces involve a sense of community, respect for elders, and deep values and religious beliefs promoting growth.
Wes G. Darou +5 more
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Mixed feelings, mixed outcomes? When emotionally ambivalent framing enhances idea appreciation
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Despite growing interest in how linguistic strategies shape audience responses to innovative ideas, prior evidence on the benefits of using emotional language remains mixed. Building on research on emotional ambivalence and social evaluation, we introduce the concept of emotionally ambivalent framing (i.e., the combination of ...
Donato Cutolo +2 more
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Teaching of Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL) : a study of the communicative approach in relation to Arabic [PDF]
, 2012 The study is concerned with the problem of how to improve the teaching of Arabic as a foreign or a second language. It lays down some of the essential foundation-work necessary for bringing about systematic and constructive improvements in the ...
Jadwat, Ayoob Y.
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Weather, EarlyView.The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary among its peers in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the diverse origins of the words we use. In this two‐part paper, we will explore these origins, including the Pontic‐Caspian steppe, the British Empire, latinophone scientists and a TV show. We
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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A comparative study of some English translations of parts of three Mu'allaqat [PDF]
, 2007 EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited ...
Berdom, Abduladim
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