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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
wiley   +1 more source

Dissecting the genetic variation of haploid frailty in maize for enhanced doubled haploid breeding. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci
Fakude M, Murithi A, Chen YR, Yavuz R, Aboobucker SI, Frei UK, Lübberstedt T.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
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Performance prediction and stability of maize hybrids in contrasting <i>Striga</i> environments. [PDF]

J Agric Food Res
Oyekale SA, Badu-Apraku B.
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Churchill and Germany: A ‘Special’ Relationship

History, EarlyView.
Abstract No other country defined the trajectory of Churchill's political career more than Germany, a country of which he had little direct knowledge but which he either sought to emulate, accommodate or oppose throughout his time in politics. This article traces Churchill's relationship with Germany from his entry into politics at the beginning of the
T. G. Otte
wiley   +1 more source

Optimizing Planting Density and Nitrogen Application Enhances Root Lodging Resistance and Yield via Improved Post-Anthesis Light Distribution in Sweet Corn. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Chang H, Chen H, Wang J, Wu Q, Deng B, Qin Y, Chen S, Liang Q.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Churchill and Spain: More Sancho than Quixote?

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers a detailed analysis of Winston Churchill's relationship with Spain over the course of his long and eventful political and personal life. The article focuses on three key episodes: Churchill's ambivalent stance during the Spanish Civil War; his leadership and policy towards Spain during the crucial years of the Second World ...
EMILIO SÁENZ‐FRANCÉS
wiley   +1 more source

Deciphering the Morphological Correlation Between Stature and External Ear: An investigative approach in the field of Forensic Science. [PDF]

F1000Res
das MS, Nayak VC, Bhat PR, U L, Chacko A.   +4 more
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Synergistic application of biochar and sodium hydrosulfide enhances maize drought tolerance through improved physiological performance and stress mitigation. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Mansha MZ, Elkelish A, Ikram K, Abbas T, Aatif HM, Amin MA, Hanif CMS, Ashraf K, Al-Zharani M, Rudayni H, Atakpama W, Zaman QU.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source