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A gamified resource for learning anatomy terminology aids retention

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract A card game, “Hold your Nerve,” was developed to aid memorization of anatomy terminology in small‐group learning formats. Each of the 719 cards consisted of an anatomical term and its definition. To play, a student blindly holds a card so as to block the definition but display the term to the group, who must provide verbal/physical clues to ...
Eva M. Sweeney   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond mammals: the evolution of chewing and other forms of oropharyngeal food processing in vertebrates

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Oropharyngeal food processing exhibits a remarkable diversity among vertebrates, reflecting the evolution of specialised ‘processing centres’ associated with the mandibular, hyoid, and branchial arches. Although studies have detailed various food‐processing strategies and mechanisms across vertebrates, a coherent and comprehensive terminology ...
Daniel Schwarz   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tolkien and Sanskrit (2016) by Mark T. Hooker [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Book review of Tolkien and Sanskrit (2016) by Mark T ...
Goering, Nelson
core   +1 more source

Methylene‐Bridged Calixarene Polyhedra: An Elusive Class of Symmetric Molecular Architectures

open access: yesHelvetica Chimica Acta, EarlyView.
An overview of purely hypothetical methylene‐bridged calixarene polyhedral molecular architectures is presented. In addition to the five previously postulated structures, we propose a calix[5]arene‐based icosidodecahedron as a new member of this class. Computational assessments of stability and strain indicate that methanospherophane is likely the most
Aleksandr Kharchenko   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Positive Freedom and the Social Meaning of Money

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Semiotic objections to markets hold that buying and selling certain things – for example, sex, body parts, votes, surrogacy services – expresses that those things are fungible with money, which has only profane value. This article offers a more fundamental challenge to semiotic critiques of market.
Andrew Allison   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The loss of *g before *m in Proto-Slavic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper proposes a new sound rule for Proto-Slavic, according to which *g (from PIE *g, *gw, *gh, and *gwh) was lost before *m. This development was posterior to Winter’s law and the merger of voiced and aspirated stop in Slavic.
Matasović, Ranko
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No App, No Entry: Conceptualizing Digital Technology Captivity in Service Access

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We introduce Digital Technology Captivity (DTC), a form of consumer vulnerability that arises when digital technologies become the mandatory gateway to essential services. When access is tied to systems that feel unfamiliar, complex, or intimidating—and when preferred alternatives are limited—consumers may experience heightened vulnerability ...
Carolyn Wilson‐Nash   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tupi-Guarani loanwords in Southern Arawak: taking contact etymologies seriously

open access: yesRevista Linguística, 2018
This paper seeks to rigorously evaluate a set of claims that lexical items in Southern Arawak languages are loanwords from Tupi-Guarani languages. I show that, in most cases, these hypotheses can be rejected because the Arawak forms in question either ...
Fernando O. de Carvalho
doaj   +1 more source

A Gastronomic Glossary [PDF]

open access: yes
Like most languages, Hindi has a wide range of expressions based on food and cooking. This short (and infinitely extendable) glossary is a list of words which generate such idioms, or which have interesting etymologies (given in square brackets at the ...
Snell, Rupert
core   +1 more source

Tetrataenium paikadae (Apiaceae), a new species from the Western Ghats, India

open access: yesNordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
A new species, Tetrataenium paikadae C.Rekha, Manudev & Prasanth (Apiaceae), is described from the State of Kerala, India. The new species is characterised by its hirsute to hispid stems, broadly ovate or rounded leaflets, long petioles with hirsute leaf sheaths, tomentose rays, symmetric flowers, ovate‐lanceolate involucel bracteoles, and mericarp ...
Rekha Chappan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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