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Something Wyrd: Folk Horror, Folklore and British Television [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Television schedules in 1970s Britain were so full of with stories involving folkloric narratives featuring paganism, witchcraft, stone circles and ghosts that such tales account for many hundreds of hours of programming.
Rodgers, Diane
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Ethnomedicinal uses, phytochemistry, pharmacological activities, and toxicology of the subfamily Gomphrenoideae (Amaranthaceae): A comprehensive review

open access: yesChemistry &Biodiversity, Accepted Article.
The subfamily Gomphrenoideae is composed of about 480 accepted species, many of which have been historically used as medicinal plants, reason why they have been studied in terms of chemical profile, biological activity, and safety. This review consolidates the advances in research on this subfamily over the past 47 years, emphasizing its promising ...
Dayanna Isabel Araque Gelves   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Archiving Uncertainty: Leveraging Crowdsourcing Methodology in Documenting Personal Experiences of COVID-19

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Life Writing
The COVID-19 pandemic, declared a global crisis by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020, dramatically altered society’s daily routines, social interactions, and digital media consumption. This paper aims to evaluate how leveraging crowdsourcing
Sanita Reinsone   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Folklore and Sociolinguistics [PDF]

open access: yesHumanities, 2018
Folklore and sociolinguistics exist in a symbiotic relationship; more than that, at points—in the ethnography of communication and in ethnopoetics, for example—they overlap and become indistinguishable. As part of a reaction to the formal rigor and social detachment of Chomsky’s theoretical linguistics, sociolinguistics emerges in the mid-twentieth ...
openaire   +3 more sources

The porous medium equation: Large deviations and gradient flow with degenerate and unbounded diffusion

open access: yesCommunications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, EarlyView.
Abstract The problem of deriving a gradient flow structure for the porous medium equation which is thermodynamic, in that it arises from the large deviations of some microscopic particle system is studied. To this end, a rescaled zero‐range process with jump rate g(k)=kα,α>1$g(k)=k^\alpha, \alpha >1$ is considered, and its hydrodynamic limit and ...
Benjamin Gess, Daniel Heydecker
wiley   +1 more source

The modality of historical thinking in the latest Greek primary school curriculum and the new challenges in history education

open access: yesThe Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper refers to the concept of ‘historical thinking’ as it appears in the three versions of the recent Greek History Curriculum for primary school. It is a comparative study of the discourse of the three versions of the recent history curriculum for primary school.
Kyriaki Fardi
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of clustered survey data based on two‐stage informative sampling and associated two‐level models

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), Volume 185, Issue 4, Page 1522-1540, October 2022., 2022
Abstract This paper deals with making inference on parameters of a two‐level model matching the design hierarchy of a two‐stage sample. In a pioneering paper, Scott and Smith (Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1969, 64, 830–840) proposed a Bayesian model based or prediction approach to estimating a finite population mean under two‐stage ...
Jae Kwang Kim, J.N.K. Rao, Yonghyun Kwon
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of mechanized farming and industrialization on the Oromo people, their traditional livelihood strategies and their environment in Ethiopia

open access: yesEnvironmental & Socio-economic Studies, 2018
This article discusses the influences of mechanized farming and industrialization on the Oromo traditional livelihood strategies and environment.
Kuto Lenin, Bacha Ayehu, Baru Amanti
doaj   +1 more source

Cholera „limpamų ligų“ kontekste: prevencijos ir gydymo rekomendacijos Lietuvoje XX amžiaus pirmojoje pusėje | Communicable Diseases in Early 20th-Century Lithuania: Recommendations for the Prevention of Cholera in its Treatment

open access: yesActa Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2022
The press (books, newspapers, magazines, calendars, etc) in the Lithuanian language educated its readers extensively on the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in the early 20th century.
Asta Skujytė-Razmienė
doaj   +1 more source

Harnessing Jasminum Bioactive Compounds: Updated Insights for Therapeutic and Food Preservation Innovations

open access: yesFood Frontiers, EarlyView.
Jasminum bioactives improve food preservation by providing antimicrobial and antioxidant effects, especially when incorporated into active packaging, edible films, and nanoformulations that enhance stability and controlled release. They also offer many pharmacological benefits, including anti‐inflammatory, neuroprotective, and wound‐healing properties.
Antonio Rescigno   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

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