British Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Background Many words have multiple meanings, which present challenges to learning, yet research has yet to identify effective interventions for homonyms. Lexical inference may be a promising strategy. Aim To evaluate a brief, novel lexical inference intervention for homonyms. Samples Children aged 7–8 years (Study 1: N = 180, Study 2: N = 76).
Sophie A. Booton +4 more
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The Narrative Grammar of Classic Detective Fiction [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2013 Using „narrative grammar” I attempted to make an abstract interpretation of the story where it is not important 1. what specific style of author or text was used; 2. what language was used to write the the text and 3.
Martin Hudymač
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Revisiting Homochiral versus Heterochiral Interactions through a Long Detective Story of a Useful Azobis-Nitrile and Puzzling Racemate. [PDF]
Cryst Growth Des, 2023 García de la Concepción J +5 more
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Boreas, EarlyView.The relationship between the climate and societal transformation in Maya lowlands has long been debated, particularly the role of drought in shaping the civilization trajectory during the Classic Period. A high‐resolution, multi‐proxy, geochemical record from Lake Kaná, located in the underexplored Uaymil region of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico ...
Haydar B. Martinez‐Dyrzo +5 more
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Elevated Jewish Mortality from Coronavirus in England and Wales: An Epidemiological and Demographic Detective Story. [PDF]
Contemp Jew, 2021 Staetsky LD.
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A Philippine Island Detective Story
Eos, 2023 Researchers snorkeled, drilled, profiled, mapped, and interviewed to unlock clues to how an island was born.
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Republican Monsters: The Cultural Construction of American Positivist Criminology, 1767-1920 [PDF]
, 2019 This dissertation examines the history of and cultural influences on positivist criminology in the United States. From Benjamin Rush to the present day, the U.S.
Burton, Chase Smith
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“We will write it again”: subverted hermeneutics in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia
Sillages Critiques, 2011 Arcadia can be read as a subverted detective story in which history is reinterpreted rather than deciphered. The sleuth is a ruthlessly ambitious scholar who distorts evidence so as to achieve his ends.
Aloysia Rousseau
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Striving for autonomy : representative female characters in the detective novels of P. D. James : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand [PDF]
, 1999 Representative female characters from several of P D James's detective novels are used to exemplify the changes in women's position in society during the four decades (from the early 1960s to the late 1990s) which span James's publishing career and which
Greenwood, Irene
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, 2015 Contains fulltext : 142488.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Karsdorp, Folgert +3 more
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