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Covid-19 Has Turned Home Advantage Into Home Disadvantage in the German Soccer Bundesliga
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2020 The main factors for home advantage (HA), quantified by the number of points won at home expressed as a percentage of all points, are believed to be crowd support, territoriality, familiarity, and travel fatigue.
Markus Tilp, Sigrid Thaller
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Developing Iran's Image Model as Tourist Destination: A Mixed method [PDF]
پژوهشهای مدیریت عمومی, 2015 The aim of current study was to examine the effect of perceived risk of potential tourist, middle-east image and familiarity on Iran’ image destination. For this purpose, a mixed method approach was considered.
Somayeh Mahmoodi +2 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022 Negative stress due to human handling has been reported for a number of domestic animals, including dogs. Many companion dogs display significant stress during routine care in the veterinary clinic, risking injury to staff and potentially compromising ...
Emma K. Grigg +13 more
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Processing figurative language: Evidence from native and non-native speakers of English
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 In recent research on figurative phrases, factors (e.g., familiarity, transparency, meaning, and decomposability) have played a significant influence on how native and non-native English speakers (various L1 and L1 Arabic) acquire, process, and ...
Reem Alkhammash
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Discours, 2010 In this paper we would like to explore, within Vallduví’s (1992, 1993) information packaging theory, how writers’ assumptions about their addressees’ state of knowledge can account for the choice writers make between competing syntactic structures, which
Rudy Loock
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Pupillary dilation response reflects surprising moments in music
Journal of Eye Movement Research, 2018 There are indications that the pupillary dilation response (PDR) reflects surprising moments in an auditory sequence such as the appearance of a deviant noise against repetitively presented pure tones (Liao, Yoneya, Kidani, Kashino, & Furukawa, 2016 ...
Hsin-I Liao +3 more
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The Parish and the World in Irish Poetry [PDF]
University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2019 Starting with Patrick Kavanagh's distinction between the parish and the province as source and audience for poetry, the essay goes on to Seamus Heaney's essay 'The Sense of Place', to revisit his question of how particular to Irish writing these ...
Bernard O'Donoghue
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Social familiarity affects Diana monkey (Cercopithecus diana diana) alarm call responses in habitat-specific ways [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Male Diana monkeys produce loud and acoustically distinct alarm calls to leopards and eagles that propagate over long distances, much beyond the immediate group.
Claudia Stephan, Klaus Zuberbühler
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Familiar and unfamiliar face recognition in crested macaques (Macaca nigra) [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 Many species use facial features to identify conspecifics, which is necessary to navigate a complex social environment. The fundamental mechanisms underlying face processing are starting to be well understood in a variety of primate species.
Jérôme Micheletta +5 more
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Un tal Ernestico/a certain Ernestico: On the structure of proper names
Glossa, 2019 Proper names are usually assumed to be definite. In this paper we question this assumption by analyzing the Spanish construction un tal ‘X’ ‘a certain ‘X’’.
José Camacho
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