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Défense et Illustration des Langues Africaines: Linguistic Commitment and Critical Thought in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s and Kwasi Wiredu’s Works

open access: yesItinéraires, 2019
This article proposes to return to the history of the notion of “African Renaissance” and its link with the question of the revalorization of African languages. By presenting the work of the Ghanaian philosopher Kwasi Wiredu and the Kenyan novelist Ngugi
Pierre Boizette
doaj   +1 more source

Forecasting the Dialysis Burden in Japan: Validation‐Based Projections of Prevalence and Incidence Through 2050

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Japan has one of the highest dialysis prevalence rates worldwide and a shrinking, aging population. Whether dialysis burden has entered a sustained post‐peak phase or whether recent declines partly reflect pandemic‐related disruptions remains uncertain.
Hatice Şahin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

No conversion, no conversation

open access: yes, 2021
On encountering a prospect whom they believe unlikely to make a purchase, some retail salespeople adopt a sales strategy of limiting engagement with the customer, relying on a "no conversion, no conversation" (\(NC^{2}\)) sales strategy. Is this a good or bad sales strategy?
Cron, William L. (Dr.)   +4 more
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A comparative transcriptomic analysis provides new insights into the ecological adaptations in Ichthyophis bannanicus

open access: yesBMC Genomics
Background Banna caecilian (Ichthyophis bannanicus) was the first species of Gymnophiona to be discovered in China, with unique lifestyles and characteristics.
Jieling Lai   +6 more
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Iranian Hegel; Report and description of Shahid Motahari's dialogue with Hegel [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت اسرا, 2023
More than a century has passed since Iranians encountered and became familiar with Hegel's thought. During this period, the way "we" Iranians refer to Hegel has undergone changes, so after all this Hegel research and translation of Hegel's writings and ...
seyyed Mohammad Taqi chawoshi   +2 more
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
wiley   +1 more source

Conversational Coherency* [PDF]

open access: yesCognitive Science, 1978
A major goal of this work is to specify some steps of the process by which participants maintain coherency in their conversations.The underlying element of the analysis is a construct called a “context space.” Roughly, a group of utterances that refers to a single issue or episode forms the basis for a context space.
openaire   +2 more sources

Nature et domotique du langage : Une approche des interactions naturelles homme-machine en environnement pervasif

open access: yesCorela, 2019
Nowadays, our technological environment is characterized by a total computer dissemination in the intelligent and connected objects. In this context of Ambient Intelligence (Zelkha et al., 1998) the domotic devices are deployed in so-called '' natural ...
François Perea
doaj   +1 more source

Diversity and complexity in neural organoids

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Neural organoid research aims to expand genetic diversity on one side and increase tissue complexity on the other. Chimeroids integrate multiple donor genomes within single organoids. Self‐organising multi‐identity organoids, exogenous cell seeding, or enforced assembly of region‐specific organoids contribute to tissue complexity.
Ilaria Chiaradia, Madeline A. Lancaster
wiley   +1 more source

‘Only Brooks of Sheffield’: Conversation, Crossover Writing, and Child and Adult Perspectives in David Copperfield and Its Juvenile Adaptations

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2020
This article examines the role that conversations between children and adults play in Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield (1850), and late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century adaptations of it for a child audience.
Hannah Field
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