Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae I: When is a Valkyrie Like a Spear? [PDF]
Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2014 This article explores patterns of language use in oral poetry within a variety of semantic formula. Such a formula may vary its surface texture in relation to phonic demands of the metrical environment in which it is realized.
- Frog
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Narratiiv kui ravi: riituse-etendus ja narratiivi aktualiseerumine kogemusena [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2010 This paper addresses theoretical issues of narrative in an attempt to approach the semantics of understanding underlying the performance of certain healing rites. The first section of the paper introduces the term narrative power to refer to the cultural
Frog
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Parallelism and Orders of Signification (Parallelism Dynamics I) [PDF]
Oral Tradition, 2017 This essay sets out an approach to parallelism in verbal art as a semiotic phenomenon that can operate at multiple orders (or levels) of signification. It examines parallelism in the sounds through which words are communicated, in language communicated ...
Frog
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Multimedial Parallelism in Ritual Performance (Parallelism Dynamics II) [PDF]
Oral Tradition, 2017 This article approaches parallelism as a semiotic phenomenon that can operate across verbal art and other media in performance. It presents an approach to different media and the uniting performance mode as construing "metered frames." Multimedial ...
Frog
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Parallelism in Verbal Art and Performance: An Introduction [PDF]
Oral Tradition, 2017 Frog is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow and Associate Professor in Folklore Studies at the University of Helsinki. He completed his Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies at the University College London in 2010 and his Docentship (Habilitation) in Folklore
Frog, Lotte Tarkka
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Poison Frog Colors Are Honest Signals Of Toxicity, Particularly For Bird Predators [PDF]
, 2012 Antipredator defenses and warning signals typically evolve in concert. However, the extensive variation across taxa in both these components of predator deterrence and the relationship between them are poorly understood.
Cummings, Molly E., Maan, Martine E.
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The Finnic Tetrameter – A Creolization of Poetic Form?
Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2019 This article presents a new theory on the origins of the common Finnic tetrameter as a poetic form (also called the Kalevala-meter, regilaul meter, etc.).
- Frog
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Oxidative Stress and Cognitive Alterations Induced by Cancer Chemotherapy Drugs: A Scoping Review
Antioxidants, 2021 Cognitive impairment is one of the most deleterious effects of chemotherapy treatment in cancer patients, and this problem sometimes remains even after chemotherapy ends.
Omar Cauli
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Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae II: Base-Word-Determinant Indexing
Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2014 This article explores patterns of language use in oral poetry within a variety of semantic formula. Such a formula may vary its surface texture in relation to phonic demands of the metrical environment in which it is realised.
- Frog
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A new family of diverse skin peptides from the microhylid frog genus phrynomantis [PDF]
, 2020 A wide range of frogs produce skin poisons composed of bioactive peptides for defence against pathogens, parasites and predators. While several frog families have been thoroughly screened for skin-secreted peptides, others, like the Microhylidae, have ...
Ballet, Steven +7 more
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