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The Beckoning Silence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Mark Turin has agreed with the copyright holder the right to host a copy of this piece (whether audio, text or video) on University of Cambridge archives and servers.An article in the Independent on Sunday on the World Oral Literature ...
Paul, Bignell
core   +1 more source

Glocalization of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Strengthening Preservation of Indonesia’s Endangered Languages in Globalized World

open access: yes, 2018
The negative impact of globalization affects the very existence of cultural identities including local languages. Indonesia, multilingual state with more than 700 local languages, encounters such impact where a number of its languages are increasingly ...
I. Septiyana, Defbry Margiansyah
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Biofilm removal capacity and titanium surface integrity in non‐abrasive versus abrasive peri‐implantitis cleaning interventions

open access: yesJournal of Periodontology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Current peri‐implantitis treatment methods are modeled after dental cleaning modalities like abrasive surface cleaning. However, mechanical abrasive cleaning not only inadequately removes implant biofilms but also compromises implant surface integrity with adverse biological effects.
Marzieh S. Jazaeri   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

La muerte de las lenguas: hacia unas consideraciones generales

open access: yesEnletawa Journal, 2014
This article provides some general considerations about language death . The paper first presents a definition of this interesting phenomenon, it discloses some of the ways of disappearing languages, then the article proposes information about causes of ...
Joselyn Corredor Tapias
doaj   +1 more source

Fritz Scheffer Under National Socialism: Assessing His Political Involvement

open access: yesJournal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aims This article examines the role of soil scientist Fritz Scheffer (1899–1979) under National Socialism and offers a critical assessment of his scientific, institutional, and political positioning between 1933 and 1945. It asks how Scheffer shaped his career within the tension between disciplinary specialization, political expectations, and ...
Jan Arend
wiley   +1 more source

Employees' Mitigation of Ambiguous Green Human Resource Management Signals

open access: yesStrategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human resource management (HRM) is increasingly directed at leveraging businesses' environmental strategies. Current research shows how integrating environmental objectives into HRM practices can positively affect an organization's green performance.
Josefine Weigt‐Rohrbeck   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Laurels or Thorns of Trust? How Embeddedness Moderates the Exchange‐Satisfaction Relationship in Franchising

open access: yesManagerial and Decision Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Exchanges in franchise systems are embedded in the level of trust that exists in franchisee–franchisor relationships. Although trust is essential in business relationships, it can unfold a negative side effect on the appreciation of exchange in these relationships as hidden costs of trust.
Matthias Glaser   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Data‐Based Detection of Antagonistic Agents in a Robot Swarm Solving a Dynamic Coverage Task

open access: yesInternational Journal of Mechanical System Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Robot swarms can be deployed as moving surveillance systems, for instance, as mobile anti‐poaching systems for monitoring wildlife and detecting poaching activities. Since poachers have an interest in evading detection, robots are at risk of being hijacked and manipulated to behave antagonistically, for example, to prevent the correct ...
Ingeborg Wenger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Language Death and Endangered Languages

open access: yesIOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2014
Language is essential in humans’ lives; it is what takes to differentiate between animals and humans, it is what we use to understand ourselves. Upon all its status in human life, people are still crying of language disappearance, because many died and some are endangered. There are some questions that supposed to be asked, but only few were raised. We
Baba Zanna Isa   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Waldayu and Waldayu Mobile: Modern digital dictionary interfaces for endangered languages

open access: yes, 2017
We introduce Waldayu and Waldayu Mobile, web and mobile front-ends for endangered language dictionaries. The Waldayu products are designed with the needs of novice users in mind – both novices in the language and technological novices – and work in ...
Patrick Littell, Aidan Pine, Henry Davis
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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