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Hiatus resolution in Xitsonga

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2017
Vowel hiatus is dispreferred in many languages of the world. Xitsonga, an understudied cross-border southern Bantu language spoken in South Africa, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, employs a set of four hiatus resolution strategies: glide formation ...
Vratsanos, Alyssa , Kadenge, Maxwell
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Spatial metrics in fire ecology: seeking consistency amidst complexity

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Technological advances, including remote sensing, have led to a proliferation of metrics used in ecological studies to examine spatial patterns of fire regimes and their ecological effects. Researchers can use many different metrics to analyse spatial variation in both fire events and resulting fire regimes, including fire size, shape ...
Alexander R. Carey, Geoffrey J. Cary, Teigan Cremona, Hugh F. Davies, Brett P. Murphy, Sam C. Banks   +5 more
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Rastafarian-herbalists’ enregisterment of multilingual voices in an informal marketplace

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2016
What do we mean when we talk about “multilingual voice” in the post-apartheid sociolinguistic context of South Africa? In this paper, I explore this question by reporting on an ethnographic fieldwork project that involved the participant-observation of ...
Williams, Quentin
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Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Stuart H. M. Butchart, Olivia Crowe, Tom Scott, Andrew J. Plumptre, Megan Eldred, Ellen McKee, Zoltan Waliczky, Ibrahim Al Hasani, Adrián B. Azpiroz, Daniele Baisero, Fred Barasa, Alison E. Beresford, Bezeng S. Bezeng, Charlotte Boyd, Thomas M. Brooks, Graeme Buchanan, Gill Bunting, Sofia Capellan, Neil Cox, Tim R. B. Davenport, Tammy E. Davies, Gina Della Togna, Wendy Elliott, Matt Foster, Jo Gilbert, Jonathan M. Handley, Diego Juffe‐Bignoli, Victoria R. Jones, Naomi Kingston, Jeannot Kivono, John Lamoreux, Penny F. Langhammer, James Lewis, Bruce Liggitt, Daniel Marnewick, Paul Matiku, Erin McCreless, Rachel A. Neugarten, Catherine Numa, Mark O'Brien, Madhu Rao, Ciara Raudsepp‐Hearne, Justina C. Ray, Samridhi Rijal, Jon Paul Rodríguez, Jurgis Sapijanskas, Wes Sechrest, Martin Sneary, Andrew Snyder, Konstantina Spiliopoulou, Thomas Starnes, Cecilia Tobar, Gautam Surya, Marcelo F. Tognelli, Andrew W. Tordoff, Maria G. Toscano, Yongyut Trisurat, Amy Upgren   +57 more
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The Correspondence of Ludvik Kuba with Andronyk Stepovychиas a Source for the Research of Czech-Ukrainian Cultural Communications

Київські історичні студії
The article analyzes the correspondence of prominent Czech folklorist and painter Ludvik Kuba (1863–1956) with Ukrainian philologist, specialist in Slavic languages and literature, teacher Andronyk Stepovych (1856/1857–1935).
Yevhen Kovalov
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Left dislocation: towards a new horizon

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2016
This volume has examined the LD construction in several genetically and areally diverse languages with the overarching aim of contributing to a more coherent and crosslinguistically justifiable profile of the LD category.
Westbury, Josh , Andrason, Alexander
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Bridging Gaps in STEMM Education: The Role of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Mentorship in Preparing Future Teachers

Future in Educational Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A Summer Research Program (SRP) at a large public university in the southern United States prepares undergraduate STEM majors to engage with high school students from underrepresented backgrounds. Grounded in culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP) and layered mentorship, SRP fosters inclusive teaching practices and professional growth among ...
Mariam A. Manuel, Jacqueline N. Ekeoba, Jerrod A. Henderson, Bereket Mego, Michelle A. Carroll Turpin   +4 more
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Disease Site‐Specific Outcomes in p16‐Positive Non‐Oropharyngeal Mucosal Head and Neck Cancer

Head &Neck, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To report disease‐free survival (DFS) in p16‐positive non‐oropharyngeal head‐and‐neck squamous‐cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Methods Curatively‐treated non‐oropharyngeal HNSCC (2009–2021) were reviewed. DFS was compared among p16‐positive, p16‐negative, and p16‐untested cases for the overall cohort and by disease site.
Revadhi C. Chelvarajah, Lessandra Y. S. Chee, Jie Su, Brian O'Sullivan, Christopher M. K. L. Yao, Enrique Sanz‐Garcia, Stephen M. Smith, Ilan Weinreb, Scott Bratman, B. C. John Cho, Ezra Hahn, Andrew Hope, Ali Hosni, John Kim, Andrew McPartlin, Nauman Malik, Chiaojung Jillian Tsai, John de Almeida, Anna Spreafico, Li Tong, Shao Hui Huang, John N Waldron   +21 more
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A task-based approach to improving the communicative skills of university students learning Afrikaans as an additional language

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2014
This paper reports on a qualitative study which was conducted with first-year Afrikaans Language Acquisition students in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Adendorff, Elbie
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Internationally Educated Nurse (IEN) Integration in Nova Scotia: A Provincial Realist Evaluation

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Canada is committed to supporting internationally educated nurse (IEN) integration into the healthcare system, as a strategy to address post‐pandemic nursing shortages. The province of Nova Scotia has emerged as a Canadian exemplar with the development of NICHE (Nova Scotia's International Community of Healthcare Workers Engagement)
Alyssa Indar, Meaghan Sim, Ruth Martin‐Misener, Annette Elliott‐Rose   +3 more
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