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Navigating Ambiguity: Scope Interpretations in Spanish/English Heritage Bilinguals

Languages
This study investigates how Mexican Spanish/U.S. English heritage bilinguals process scope ambiguities in sentences containing the existential quantifiers a/una and the universal quantifiers every/cada in English and Spanish.
Cecilia Solís-Barroso, Acrisio Pires, Teresa Satterfield   +2 more
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Motivations of UK students to study abroad: a survey of school-leavers [PDF]

, 2010
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Ahrens, Jill, Dunne, Mairead, King, Russell, Skeldon, Ronald   +3 more
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The impacts of biological invasions

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock, Teun Everts, Neil Angelo S. Abreo, Jamie Bojko, Victor Deklerck, James W. E. Dickey, Ana Clara S. Franco, Emili García‐Berthou, Stelios Katsanevakis, Natalia I. Kirichenko, Stefano Mammola, Martin A. Nuñez, Ben Parker, Riccardo Scalera, Ismael Soto, Diederik Strubbe, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Lorenzo Vilizzi, Tim Adriaens, Paride Balzani, Dagmara Błońska, Elizabeta Briski, Rein Brys, Amy L. Burgess, James E. Byers, Carlos Cano‐Barbacil, Giuseppe Castaldelli, Jaimie T.A. Dick, Victoria Dominguez Almela, Romina D. Dimarco, Margarita Florencio, Antonín Kouba, Melina Kourantidou, Irmak Kurtul, Irene Martín‐Forés, Olivier Morissette, Julian D. Olden, Bruno E. Soares, Jakub Truszkowski, Hugo Verreycken, Marc Kenis, Ronaldo Sousa, J. Robert Britton   +42 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Stuart H. M. Butchart, Olivia Crowe, Tom Scott, Andrew J. Plumptre, Megan Eldred, Ellen McKee, Zoltan Waliczky, Ibrahim Al Hasani, Adrián B. Azpiroz, Daniele Baisero, Fred Barasa, Alison E. Beresford, Bezeng S. Bezeng, Charlotte Boyd, Thomas M. Brooks, Graeme Buchanan, Gill Bunting, Sofia Capellan, Neil Cox, Tim R. B. Davenport, Tammy E. Davies, Gina Della Togna, Wendy Elliott, Matt Foster, Jo Gilbert, Jonathan M. Handley, Diego Juffe‐Bignoli, Victoria R. Jones, Naomi Kingston, Jeannot Kivono, John Lamoreux, Penny F. Langhammer, James Lewis, Bruce Liggitt, Daniel Marnewick, Paul Matiku, Erin McCreless, Rachel A. Neugarten, Catherine Numa, Mark O'Brien, Madhu Rao, Ciara Raudsepp‐Hearne, Justina C. Ray, Samridhi Rijal, Jon Paul Rodríguez, Jurgis Sapijanskas, Wes Sechrest, Martin Sneary, Andrew Snyder, Konstantina Spiliopoulou, Thomas Starnes, Cecilia Tobar, Gautam Surya, Marcelo F. Tognelli, Andrew W. Tordoff, Maria G. Toscano, Yongyut Trisurat, Amy Upgren   +57 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative analysis of English and Russian idioms of nationality and ethnicity [PDF]

, 2013
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Rikkinen, Oksana
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Conceptualising Supply Chain Resilience Within Social Enterprises

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research seeks to conceptualise supply chain resilience (SCRes) in a social enterprise (SE) context, focusing on SEs with a social mission to tackle food insecurity and food poverty. Despite the increasingly mature field of SCRes and awareness of the critical role SEs play in tackling social challenges such as food poverty, no studies ...
Alexander James Jones, Helen Walker, Yingli Wang, Ken Peattie   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Adult Heritage Language Lexical Proficiency for Studies on Facilitative Processing of Gender

Languages
The present study analyzes individual differences in the facilitative processing of grammatical gender by heritage speakers of Spanish, asking whether these differences correlate with lexical proficiency.
Zuzanna Fuchs, Emma Kealey, Esra Eldem-Tunç, Leo Mermelstein, Linh Pham, Anna Runova, Yue Chen, Metehan Oğuz, Seoyoon Hong, Catherine Pan, JK Subramony   +10 more
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Elaborating the Motivations and Attitudes Driving Interest in Voluntary Biodiversity Credits

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global biodiversity loss has prompted the search for new sources of conservation finance, such as voluntary biodiversity credits (VBCs). However, despite optimistic market projections, current uptake of VBCs is limited. Adopting an interpretive approach, we analyse 21 semistructured interviews with early market actors (buyers, sellers ...
Gamze Yakar‐Pritchard, Andrew Greenman, Stacia Stetkiewicz, Bouwe Dijkstra, Frances Bowen, Richard Field   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying seasonal stars in Kaurna astronomical traditions

, 2015
Early ethnographers and missionaries recorded Aboriginal languages and oral traditions across Australia. Their general lack of astronomical training resulted in misidentifications, transcription errors, and omissions in these records.
Hamacher, Duane W.
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When Languages Die: The Extinction Of The World\u27s Languages And The Erosion Of Human Knowledge [PDF]

, 2007
In When Languages Die, K. David Harrison illustrates the individual face of language loss, as well as its global scale. Languages are the accretion of thousands of years of a people\u27s science and art - from observations of ecological patterns to ...
Harrison, K. David
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