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Abstract Mushrooms are a ubiquitous and essential component in our biological environment and have been of interest to humans around the globe for millennia. Knowledge about mushrooms represents a prime example of cumulative culture, one of the key processes in human evolution.
Andrea Bender, Åge Oterhals
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The study of the North Germanic and Finnish conceptions of the Other World from a comparative-contrastive point of view highlights several differences, but at the same time allows us to suggest explanations about complicated Germanic concepts, such as ...
Elisa Zanchetta
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective
ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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Proximity to Heritageness: Tensions From Research and Practice
ABSTRACT This conceptual paper explores the construct of heritage speakers drawn from our work as dual language teachers and scholars. Prompted by teacher talk in a National Professional Development project, we examine how heritage speaker is taken up in practice and shaped by ideological binaries like native speaker and heritage speaker.
Kathryn I. Henderson +1 more
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Nurturing Digital Government Reform: Nuggets of Wisdom From a Global Frontrunner
ABSTRACT Government reform initiatives increasingly incorporate significant digital elements. This article builds on successful, long‐term Danish experiences with digital government reform and offers “nuggets of wisdom” to policymakers, organisations, and countries wishing to advance such reform. In international surveys, Denmark is consistently ranked
Ulrik B. U. Roehl, Andreas Berggreen
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Кем был протополит Зоил Херсонский? / Who was protopolit Zoilus from Cherson?
Несмотря на многовековое исследование, история византийской Таврики все еще не изучена в полной мере. Так, до сих пор идет спор о значении терминов, обозначающих должности.
Stefan Albrecht
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Abstract Prior research suggests that second language (L2) proficiency is key in students’ study progress, but this research has mainly been carried out at universities. It is thus unclear how this relation varies across different educational levels. Moreover, previous studies are often not informative about the causality of this relation, making it ...
Sybren Spit, Sible Andringa, Oisín Ryan
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Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics
Abstract In this study, we explore the long‐run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio‐economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the ...
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola
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