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Langues et incunables à Toulouse (1475-1500)

open access: yesAtalaya, 2013
When printing first appears in Toulouse it arrives from Castile. This article aims to study the Toulouse production of incunable textsa practice that presents a number of characteristics of some importance that are particularly interesting for the ...
Jean-François Courouau
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Income and Consumption Inequality in Urban China: 1992-2003 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Using the nationally representative Urban Household Income and Expenditure Survey (UHIES) conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) of China, we document a steadily rising trend in income and consumption inequality during the period from 1992 ...
Yuyu Chen   +6 more
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The role of Ammar ibn Yasser in the social and cultural changes of early Islam [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌های تاریخی ایران و اسلام, 2016
Ammār ibn Yāsir  was one of the companions of the Prophet (pbuh), who during the time of the secretly invitation converted to Islam. Yasir's family also became Muslims. When Polytheists of Mecca knew of the conversion of Yasir's family to Islam, torture 
اصغر منتظرالقائم
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The causes of China's Great Leap famine, 1959-1961 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Area StudiesEconomicsPlanning & DevelopmentSSCI22ARTICLE151 ...
Kung, JKS   +3 more
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Perceived cultural impacts of climate change motivate climate action and support for climate policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The impacts of climate change on human cultures have received increasing attention in recent years. However, the extent to which people are aware of these impacts, whether such awareness motivates climate action, and what kinds of people show stronger ...
KOH, Brandon   +4 more
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Culture Change and Affectionate Communication in China and the United States: Evidence From Google Digitized Books 1960–2008

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Humans are born with the ability and the need for affection, but communicating affection as a social behavior is historically bound. Based on the digitized books of Google Ngram Viewer from 1960 through 2008, the present research investigated ...
Michael Shengtao Wu   +3 more
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Climate change is transforming Australia’s cultural life – so why isn’t it mentioned in the new national cultural policy? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
In its new national cultural policy, the Australian government grapples with issues extending well beyond the creative arts. The policy document places issues like First Nations representation, work and wages, technological upheaval, discrimination and ...
Green, Benjamin, Strong, Catherine
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Monpa, memory, and change: an ethnobotanical study of plant use in Mêdog County, South-east Tibet, China

open access: yesJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2020
Background Due to their relative isolation, the previous studies of Monpa plant use were only conducted in north-east India. In October 2013, Mêdog County was no longer remote, thanks to completion of a highway into the county.
Shan Li   +4 more
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Social Learning Strategies and Cooperative Behaviour: Evidence of Payoff Bias, but Not Prestige or Conformity, in a Social Dilemma Game

open access: yesGames, 2021
Human cooperation, occurring without reciprocation and between unrelated individuals in large populations, represents an evolutionary puzzle. One potential explanation is that cooperative behaviour may be transmitted between individuals via social ...
Robin Watson   +4 more
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Embodiments of Cultural Encounters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The meeting of members of different cultures, frequently conceptualized in abstract terms, always involves the meeting of human bodies. This volume brings together contributions by scholars of various disciplines that address physical aspects and effects

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