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Loess Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand
New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, Volume 69, Issue 2, June 2026.Loess in Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ) has been studied since its first documented recognition (on Banks Peninsula) in 1878 by Julius von Haast. A decade later, John Hardcastle revealed that southern ANZ loess was both glacial in origin and contained signals of past climates.
Brent V. Alloway +4 more
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Sharing the Eucharistic Bread: The Witness of the New Testament [PDF]
, 1988 Reviewed Book: Léon-Dufour, Xavier. Sharing the Eucharistic Bread: The Witness of the New Testament.
Reumann, John Henry Paul
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Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Progress and dialogue in cultural analysis are often hindered by analysts' reliance on implicit ontic claims, namely, foundational, unstated assumptions about the expected properties and typical characteristics of cultural kinds, thus precluding proper debate and theoretical progress.
Omar Lizardo
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Linguistic Interventions and Transformative Communicative Disruption [PDF]
, 2020 What words we use, and what meanings they have, is important. We shouldn't use slurs; we should use 'rape' to include spousal rape (for centuries we didn’t); we should have a word which picks out the sexual harassment suffered by people in the workplace ...
Sterken, Rachel Katharine
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Reasons, rationality, and opaque sweetening: Hare's “No Reason” argument for taking the sugar
Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 328-350, June 2026.Abstract Caspar Hare presents a compelling argument for “taking the sugar” in cases of opaque sweetening: you have no reason to take the unsweetened option, and you have some reason to take the sweetened one. I argue that this argument fails—there is a perfectly good sense in which you do have a reason to take the unsweetened option. I suggest a way to
Ryan Doody
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Italian Basic Terms Blu and Azzurro: Semantic Power Assessed in the Stroop Task
Color Research &Application, Volume 51, Issue 3, May/June 2026.A Stroop task revealed an asymmetry of the semantic power of the two basic “Italian blues,” blu “dark blue” and azzurro “light blue.” BLU word, rendered in dark and light blue inks, showed no significant Stroop effects. In contrast, AZZURRO word exhibited strong Stroop interference and facilitation. Higher semantic power of azzurro is argued to reflect
Galina V. Paramei +3 more
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Steps towards operationalizing an evolutionary archaeological definition of culture [PDF]
, 2011 This paper will examine the definition of archaeological cultures/techno-complexes from an evolutionary perspective, in which culture is defined as a system of social information transmission.
Riede, F
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Assessing multifunctional mountain landscape in an Eastern European framework
Geographical Research, Volume 64, Issue 2, May 2026.The research introduces the Biocultural Resilience Index (BRI), a novel tool for assessing multifunctional landscape sustainability. By integrating biological, cultural, and socio‐economic indicators, the BRI identifies vulnerable areas and informs strategies for sustainable management.
Viorel Gligor +4 more
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Preaching to Episodic Ears: Practicing a Dramaturgical Homiletic
, 2019 This article is a critical attempt to develop a homiletic methodology for preaching to the episodic self of the 21st century. The British philosopher Galen Strawson contends that postmodern people today do not regard themselves as living out their lives ...
Yang, Sunggu
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How do voiced retroflex stops evolve? Evidence from typology and an articulatory study [PDF]
, 2008 The present article illustrates that the specific articulatory and aerodynamic requirements for voiced but not voiceless alveolar or dental stops can cause tongue tip retraction and tongue mid lowering and thus retroflexion of front coronals.
Fuchs, Susanne, Hamann, Silke
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