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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyzes public administration systems in 29 non‐Western countries. Country‐level data is presented for 10 core aspects of administrative systems: managerialism versus legalism, politicization, personnel system, civil society participation, accountability, service orientation, public expenditure share, decentralization, legal ...
Marlene Jugl
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Prabaltiškasis intarpinių ir sta-kamienių veiksmažodžių sluoksnis
Baltistica, 2011 THE PROTO-BALTIC LAYER OF INFIX AND sta-STEM VERBS Summary Infix verbs can be found in almost all Indo-European languages. Some of them might be classified as Proto-Indo-European, e. g. Skr. riṇákti: Lith. liñka: Pr. polinka: Lat. linquo etc.
Dalia Pakalniškienė
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Conservation performance payments are becoming an increasingly popular instrument to tackle human–wildlife conflicts. In Sweden, Sámi communities practicing reindeer husbandry receive performance payments as compensation for reindeer losses caused by lynxes and wolverines.
Josef Kaiser +3 more
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Status and future of seed conservation of threatened plants in the post‐2020 era
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Ambitious targets have been set to backup seeds of threatened plants by the global strategy for plant conservation (GSPC), but it is unclear in how far these targets have been met and how seed collection should be organized to meet future challenges. Here, we provide an overview of the status of 44 countries in achieving seed conservation targets.
Andreas Ensslin +130 more
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On the reconstruction of some Indo-European text fragments in Baltic and Slavic languages
, 2022 Different kinds of reconstruction are objects of investigation in this paper which mainly focuses on fixed combinations of words, phraseological units, set phrases and components of texts. Fragments of Baltic and Slavic texts are examined.
Eckert, Rainer
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Factors influencing conservatism and purism in languages of Northern Europe (Nordic, Baltic, Finnic) [PDF]
, 2014 This paper shows common extralinguistic factors influencing conservatism and purism in languages of Northern Europe (Nordic, Baltic, Finnic). Users’ motivation, environment, culture, history and conscious policy are the keys to understand some tendencies
Piechnik, Iwona
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Aspectual Restriction on Sorting in Czech and Slovak
LanguagesThis article is about the cross-linguistic universality of the so-called Universal Sorter, where a noun N means ‘kind of N’. We discuss two restrictions in two Slavic languages which are absent from English, pertaining to perfective verbs and numerically
Mojmír Dočekal +2 more
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A Scenario Tool for Sustainability Transformation in Fisheries and Beyond
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The urgency to find sustainable management solutions intensifies with increasing natural resource scarcity. Resource sectors are usually characterized by diverse resource users. We developed a structured scenario tool designed to quantitatively assess policy options for achieving sustainability, accounting for ecological, economic and ...
Marie‐Catherine Riekhof +5 more
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Sign Systems Studies, 2000 From "word-images' to "chapter-shots": The imaginist montage of Anatolij Mariengof. The article discusses the three dominant imaginist principles of Anatolij Mariengofs (1897-1962) poetic technique, as they are translated into prose in his first ...
Tomi Huttunen
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Structural Concrete, EarlyView.Abstract After a blossoming pre‐World War II (WWII) period, the concrete construction industry in then‐socialist Hungary existed in a relative isolation from the Western World during the mid‐20th century. In this paper, we focus on the body of work of one of the then newly established state‐owned design offices, IPARTERV, to show how the isolation ...
Orsolya Gáspár, Péter Haba
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