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Balancing risk and reward—Perceptions of bats and their ecological role in Reunion island
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Context: Bats provide vital ecosystem services but can also generate disservices or sanitary concerns, particularly where human–bat interactions are frequent. Understanding public perceptions of bats is essential for effective conservation and risk communication.
Rachel Leong +2 more
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Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond [PDF]
, 2011 Joel Mann, Rebirth Brass Band, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2007. Through an examination of expressive forms, musicians, and artisans in post-Katrina New Orleans, this multi-media essay explores creolization as an approach to ethnographic work that ...
Nick Spitzer
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Weather, EarlyView.The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary among its peers in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the diverse origins of the words we use. In this two‐part paper, we will explore these origins, including the Pontic‐Caspian steppe, the British Empire, latinophone scientists and a TV show. We
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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Wildlife Letters, EarlyView.Many nocturnal animals are difficult to study because they are rarely seen, including nocturnal primates, galagos and pottos, in West Africa. Working with over 600 people in 52 villages in southern Guinea‐Bissau, we found that communities frequently recognized galagos by their red eyeshine and distinctive calls, while pottos were not known.
Chloe Chesney +6 more
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Measuring Creolization In IT-Enabled Global Services Sourcing [PDF]
, 2012 Although creolization has been shown to contribute to project success in IT-enabled global services sourcing, the components of the construct have received little theoretical scrutiny and the construct has not been instrumented by a set of systematized ...
Du, Rong +2 more
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Creolization in Context: Historical and Typological Perspectives [PDF]
, 2018 We provide a selective overview of the state of pidgin and creole language studies, with a focus on the different ways in which the question of creole genesis—especially of European-lexifier creoles—is approached: from the perspective of the demographics
Silvia Kouwenberg, John Victor Singler
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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Prior Pidginization and Creolization in Moroccan Arabic [PDF]
, 2008 This thesis makes a claim about the processes of prior pidginization and creolization, and a process of current decreolization in Moroccan Arabic (a colloquial dialect of Arabic spoken in Morocco).
Aune, Kennetta Kathleen
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Exposure Dependent Creolization in Language Dynamics Equation [PDF]
, 2007 The purpose of this paper is to develop a new formalism of language dynamics so that creole may emerge. Thus far, we modified the transition probability of the dynamics so as to change in accordance with the distribution of population of each language at
Nakamura, Makoto +5 more
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History, EarlyView.Abstract After the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), the consolidation of the Bourbon Monarchy in early eighteenth‐century Spain allowed Philip V's ministry to implement the so‐called Nueva Planta in his various kingdoms and lordships of the Crown of Aragon, but also in Castile.
Roberto Quirós Rosado
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