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Jetsam on Flotsam: Notes on Material and other Remnants and Residues
Altre Modernità, 2020 In an attempt to open a conversation on the remnant, this essay proceeds as a collection of notes on the following topics: 1) Definitions of flotsam and jetsam 2) Some famous figures of waste: Defoe, Melville, Twain, myth of Hercules, A.C.
Thomas Byers
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Selective foraging behavior of seabirds in small‐scale slicks
Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 2023 Marine predator foraging opportunities are often driven by dynamic physical processes enhancing prey accessibility. Surface slicks are ubiquitous yet ephemeral ocean features where convergent flows accumulate flotsam, concentrating marine organisms and ...
Lilian Lieber +6 more
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Posthuman Keats. Poetry as Assemblage
Altre Modernità, 2020 This article explores the notions of flotsam, jetsam and hybridity in John Keats’s poetry in order to provide a critical reading informed by posthumanist theories, and, more specifically, Donna Haraway’s cyborg.
Anna Anselmo
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Altre Modernità, 2020 This paper addresses the concept of flotsam in relation to language by examining the non-standard spellings used in a selection of literary representations of the Lancashire dialect written in the Late Modern English period. The analysis is placed within
Javier Ruano-García
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“If You Can Read This . . .”: Winslow Homer’s The Gulf Stream and the Viewing of His Pictures
Panorama, 2018 To anyone who had the temerity to press a nose against the picture, to sniff at or try to smell it, he gave a clear message. . . . Just below his signature and the painting’s date, Homer wrote in light-colored script, as if it were flotsam from a wreck: “
Marc Simpson
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Modeling the dispersal of the cryptogenic alga Chondria tumulosa (Rhodophyta, Ceramiales) in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument [PDF]
Aquatic InvasionsThe cryptogenic nuisance alga Chondria tumulosa was first observed in 2016 at Manawai (Pearl and Hermes Atoll) in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
James T. Fumo +3 more
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
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Fish fauna associated with floating objects sampled by experimental and commercial purse nets
Scientia Marina, 1999 Based on the commercial surrounding nets traditionally used in the Coryphaena hippurus fishery, we designed an experimental purse seine (64 m long and 14 m high, with a purse line and a central codend of 2 mm mesh) for sampling fish fauna associated with
Enric Massutí +2 more
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Giving Voice to Wordless Picture Books: A Teaching Tip
The Reading Teacher, Volume 80, Issue 2, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT This article shares a teaching tip that helps students actively engage in giving voice to wordless picture books. It begins with a vignette that became the impetus for writing this article. Next, it provides important background information about the benefits of wordless picture books.
William P. Bintz
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Mathematical modelling and analysis of plastic waste pollution and its impact on the ocean surface
Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science, 2020 Plastic contamination is universal all through the marine condition, yet gauges of the worldwide plenitude and weight of coasting plastics have needed information, especially from the Southern Hemisphere and remote areas.
Sonam Chaturvedi +3 more
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