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Loess Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand
New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, Volume 69, Issue 2, June 2026.Loess in Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ) has been studied since its first documented recognition (on Banks Peninsula) in 1878 by Julius von Haast. A decade later, John Hardcastle revealed that southern ANZ loess was both glacial in origin and contained signals of past climates.
Brent V. Alloway +4 more
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Computing possible worlds in the history of modern astronomy
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2016 As part of an ongoing study of causal models in the history of science, a counterfactual scenario in the history of modern astronomy is explored with the aid of computer simulations.
Osvaldo Pessoa Jr. +3 more
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, 2020 En este artículo tratamos de comprender la importancia de la metáfora del theatrum mundi para la configuración de la Edad Moderna. Tras una breve introducción sobre la idea de Edad Moderna, tratamos la distinción entre antiguos y modernos desde la perspectiva del descubrimiento de América, argumentando que la idea del globo, plasmada en la cartografía,
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A critical cluster analysis of 44 indicators of author-level performance
, 2015 This paper explores the relationship between author-level bibliometric indicators and the researchers the "measure", exemplified across five academic seniorities and four disciplines.
Wildgaard, Lorna
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First Knowledging, First Languaging: Australian Teacher Education
TESOL Journal, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Colonial policy and practices in Australia have led to the current situation of economic and social disadvantage for First Nations peoples. These policies were also instrumental in the demise of their traditional languages, from approximately 250 to now only 12 being learnt as a first language.
Sender Dovchin +3 more
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Space Weather, Volume 24, Issue 6, June 2026.Abstract The Ionospheric Monitoring Beacon network in Iran provides continuous, multi‐frequency high‐frequency (HF) transmissions using WSPRNET modulation, enabling global reception and near–real‐time monitoring of ionospheric propagation conditions.
A. Mahmoudian +2 more
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The Eye and Refractive Geography in Pericles
Linguaculture, 2017 The paper highlights the cultural constructedness of vision in the early modern period by drawing on heteroglossic representations of the eye in early English texts, ranging from anatomy and physiology treatises to philosophy, poetry, emblems, and ...
Matei-Chesnoiu Monica
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Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the education trajectories of Indonesian students attending university in Singapore. These students and their parents consider a project of educational migration to Singapore as a proven pathway toward their varied aspirations.
Erica M. Larson
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Copernican Revolutions Revisited in Adam Smith by way of David Hume
Revista Empresa y Humanismo, 2010 This paper revisits Adam Smith’s treatment of Copernicanism and Newtonianism in his essay “The History of Astronomy”. I will provide a detailed analysis of all the comments that Smith makes on the Hume’s oeuvre, noting their concordances and differences.
Eric Schliesser
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A Modern Natural Theology? [PDF]
, 2012 The author examines two different traditions of nineteenth-century natural theology and their reappearance in a modern work. Michael Denton\'s Nature\'s Destiny is used as an example of modern natural theology, showing how current writers attempt to ...
Stanley, Matthew
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