Investigating the native speaker phenomenon – a pilot corpus study of native and non-native writing [PDF]
, 2011 The aim of this report is to provide a preliminary account of the investigation of two general corpora of written English, which was prompted originally by interest in an analytical tool designed to assess the propositional density in the utterances of ...
Krakowian, Przemysław
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Disruptive Repentance: Protesting in the Morning Service at Waitangi in 1983
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.In 1983 on Waitangi Day, nine Pākehā Christian protesters (including Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Baptist ministers) were arrested and charged with disorderly behaviour for interrupting the morning church service at Waitangi. In solidarity with Māori activists and wider protests, they sought to draw attention to the longstanding failure of the ...
Michael Mawson
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Special Adaptations of Orb Weavers and Prey [PDF]
, 1986 Orb weaving spiders have devised both webs and special devices for capturing prey. The prey have also evolved mechanisms for eluding spiders and for living with them.
Dorris, Peggy Rae
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Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
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The necrotic venom of the brown recluse spider induces dysregulated endothelial cell-dependent neutrophil activation. Differential induction of GM-CSF, IL-8, and E-selectin expression. [PDF]
, 1994 Kamala D. Patel +4 more
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The predatory behavior of ants: an impressive panoply of morphological adaptations
Insect Science, EarlyView.This review focuses on predation in ants, showing the wide diversity of cases from solitary foraging to group hunting tactics, as well as the evolution of mandible shape frequently adapted to capture specific prey. Although most ants are generalist feeders, finding their sugary substances directly on plants or indirectly via sap‐sucking insects, some ...
Alain Dejean +6 more
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We don’t need just the DFC, we needs lots of comics, and what’s more, we can make them. Let’s get to it! [PDF]
, 2010 Comics have too often been dismissed as unsophisticated, popular culture texts or as a phase of reading which children are encouraged to move out of towards more ‘worthy’ literary fare.
Gibson, Mel
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Neurotoxic activity and ultrastructural changes in muscles caused by the brown widow spider Latrodectus geometricus venom [PDF]
, 2009 Matías Reyes-Lugo +6 more
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