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Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Decomposition is the transformation of dead organic matter into its inorganic constituents. In most biomes, decomposition rates can be accurately predicted with simple mathematical models, but these models have long under‐predicted decomposition in globally extensive ...
Heather L. Throop +8 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
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Le contrôle exercé en algèbre : conceptualisation et analyses en résolution de problèmes
Annales de Didactique et de Sciences Cognitives, 2015 Our reflection takes its roots, first in a theoretical analysis of what constitutes an activity of control when doing mathematics and, on the other hand, in an empirical study conducted on a group of secondary students (14 -15 years).
Mireille Saboya +2 more
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The Pan African Medical Journal, 2020 INTRODUCTION: L´obésité et l´asthme sont deux maladies chroniques touchant des millions d´individus à travers le monde. La présence d´un lien de causalité est suggérée.
Saousen Cheikh Mhamed +5 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
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L’évolution du rôle du système d’évaluation
Revue Internationale d’Éducation de Sèvres, 2008 This article goes back over the history of school assessment in Chile, showing how the country has progressed from a system based on autonomous schools, subject to market regulation, to a more centralised system with greater State intervention to promote
Leonor Cariola Huerta, Lorena Meckes
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Reconstructing Old Chinese *‐ts Using Han‐Time Material
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Baxter & Sagart (2014b) reconstruct *‐Vt‐s on the basis of Middle Chinese reflexes in ‐jH (from some OC *‐s) coupled with either etymological or graphic connections to words in Middle Chinese ‐t. This approach, while perfectly sound, can suffer from lack of etymological or graphic data, leading to missed reconstructions. Since Old Chinese *‐ts
Julien Baley
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L’irruption de l’évaluation en Chine
Revue Internationale d’Éducation de Sèvres, 2008 Against the backdrop of a booming economy, China set itself the target of devoting 4% of GDP to education in 2000. Local government has been made responsible for the nine-year compulsory education programme and must finance it.
XiaoHui Wang
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Reporting Control Deficiencies in Repeat Internal Audit Engagements*
Accounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 7-20, March 2025.ABSTRACT This study examines the reporting of control deficiencies in repeat internal audit engagements. Experienced internal auditors were presented with a hypothetical case in which they were asked about the likelihood of reporting an internal control deficiency discovered last year but which was, “through an oversight,” not reported to company ...
Michael Favere‐Marchesi
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Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how evolving regulatory and professional standards have shaped engagement quality review (EQR) partners' assessments of the review process, compared with an earlier study of review partners' assessments of the EQR process, and how these views differ from those of engagement partners.
Michael Favere‐Marchesi
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