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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2016 This paper illustrates how the use of mathematical morphology can be a powerful tool for the mapping of ligneous cover in semi-arid lands. Ligneous cover plays a fundamental role in Sahel semi-arid regions since this resource is vital to the resilience ...
José Luis San Emeterio +1 more
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Persuasion in Earnings Calls: A Diachronic Pragmalinguistic Analysis [PDF]
International Journal of Business Communication, 2017 This study investigates persuasive language in earnings calls. These are routine events organized by companies to report their quarterly financial results. The analysis is based on the earnings calls of 10 companies in the third quarter of 2009, when financial markets were still suffering from the global financial crisis, and the third quarter of 2013 ...
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Strategic litigation as a challenge for deliberative democracy
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Strategic litigation is a growing public concern, but remains understudied in democratic theory. In strategic litigation, collectives go to court with a political agenda that goes beyond their specific case. How should we assess the legitimacy of strategic litigation? Building on Lafont's model of deliberative democracy and Klein's distinction
Svenja Ahlhaus
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Critical discourse analysis of synchronic and diachronic variation in institutional turn-allocation
, 2013 Critical discourse analysis of synchronic and diachronic variation in institutional turn ...
Shepherd, Michael A.
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Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. ЯзыкознаниеThe article is dedicated to the issue of reflecting human relations in a behavioral aspect in different languages. It presents the results of a comparative analysis of the semantic organization of meanings of conceptually related lexical units that ...
Irina A. Savvateeva
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Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 2014 In the Mediterranean region, the majority of watercourses have undergone hydrogeomorphic alterations, mainly due to flow regulation such as damming. Despite this, few investigations analyzing dam impact on upstream river vegetation exist.
Tombolini I. +4 more
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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, 2013 This paper demonstrates the relevance of the semantic approach to transitivity (going back to Hopper and Thompson 1980) for the analysis of Vedic causative verbs.
Kulikov, Leonid, Kulikov, L.I.
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract Focusing on Southern Europe, this article sheds light on the mining landscape of the early Middle Ages. Based on the current state of historical and archaeological knowledge, the article raises a number of questions that can be extended to other European regions.
Nicolas Minvielle Larousse
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Conceptualization of Positive Evaluation in the Old English Poetry
Філологічні студіїThe study of axiological semantics in linguistics has traditionally focused on synchronic analysis, which has limited the understanding of the dynamics in the development of evaluative concepts.
Olha Soloviova
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