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Els noms d'aucells recomanats en l'àmbit balear [PDF]

Els noms d’aucells recomanats en l’àmbit balear. El present article inclou la llista de noms d’aucells d’ús recomanat a l’àmbit balear, elaborat per ornitòlegs de totes les illes, amb la supervisió de la Universitat de les Illes Balears, i descriu els ...
Barceló, Bàrbara, Costa, Santi, Escandell, Antoni, Jurado, Jesús R., Mayol, Joan, Miralles, Joan, Moll, Francesc, Palerm, Joan Carles, Ramon, Magdalena, Rayó, Miquel   +9 more
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An endangered oral tradition of the North Atlantic [PDF]

, 2010
Dr Leonard is a Research Fellow at Trinity Hall College, the Department of Linguistics and the Scott Polar Research Institute, all at the University of Cambridge.
Leonard, Stephen Pax
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A Bird Matching Game: Difficulty, Rewards and Intrinsic Motivation

International Journal of Serious Games
In this study the effects of several variables on intrinsic motivation and in-game progression are tested in a serious game that matches bird pictures to names. The first variables are ‘pointification’ rewards (badges and points) and educational rewards
Janne, Roman Bednarik, Juho Kahila, Matti Tedre   +3 more
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Gatekeepers and lock masters: the control of access in the Neo-Assyrian palaces [PDF]

, 2010
Book description: This volume is intended as a tribute to the memory of the Sumerologist Jeremy Black, who died in 2004. The Sumerian phrase, ‘Your praise is sweet’ is commonly addressed to a deity at the close of a work of Sumerian literature. The scope
Radner, K
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A történeti személynévföldrajz mint a nyelvföldrajz egyik kutatási területe II. Névföldrajzi módszer a nyelvjárástani kutatásokban [The geography of historical personal names as a research area of geolinguistics. Part 2: Name geographic methods in dialectology]

Névtani Értesítő, 2016
The paper demonstrates how the results of research into Hungarian family name geo-graphy could be applied in dialectology, using personal names as examples.
N. Fodor, János
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Measuring and explaining disagreement in bird taxonomy

European Journal of Taxonomy
Species lists play an important role in biology and practical domains like conservation, legislation, biosecurity and trade regulation. However, their effective use by non-specialist scientific and societal users is sometimes hindered by disagreements ...
Stijn Conix, Vincent Cuypers, Charles H. Pence   +2 more
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If Birds Have Sesamoid Bones, Do Blackbirds Have Sesamoid Bones? The Modification Effect With Known Compound Words

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Three experiments investigate how people infer properties of compound words from the unmodified head. Concepts license inference of properties true of the concept to instances or sub-types of that concept: Knowing that birds generally fly, one infers ...
Thomas L. Spalding, Christina L. Gagné, Kelly A. Nisbet, Jenna M. Chamberlain, Gary Libben   +4 more
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À tire-d’aile ! La femme oiseau dans la BD, de la Belle Époque à nos jours

Images Re-Vues
Poule, cocotte, dinde, oie blanche... All these bird names have been attributed to women in the 9th art. The fickle ‘cocottes’ are accused of strutting about, adorned with peacock feathers whose eyes make men wink.
Danièle Alexandre-Bidon
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On flora semantics in house names found in Vidzeme: materials contained in the 1826 counting of souls in Vidzeme province

Acta Baltico-Slavica, 2014
On flora semantics in house names found in Vidzeme: materials contained in the 1826 counting of souls in Vidzeme province The information of the counting of souls containing both house names and names of individuals is an essential aspect of historical
Ilga Jansone
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Thinking with Birds: Mary Elizabeth Barber’s Advocacy for Gender Equality in Ornithology [PDF]

, 2015
This article explores parts of the first South African woman ornithologist’s life and work. It concerns itself with the micro-politics of Mary Elizabeth Barber’s knowledge of birds from the 1860s to the mid-1880s.
Hammel, Tanja
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