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A comprehensive checklist of Mediterranean wild edible plants: Diversity, traditional uses, and knowledge gaps

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The use of wild edible plants and the traditional knowledge associated with them are rapidly disappearing across the Mediterranean, with serious consequences for biodiversity, cultural heritage, and regional food security. This study compiles and organizes fragmented information to create the first comprehensive catalogue of these plants across the ...
Benedetta Gori, Tiziana Cossu, Hicham El Zein, Udayangani Liu, Tiziana Ulian, Gianluigi Bacchetta   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plate tectonics in the microscopy realm: Molecular insights into morphological variability of Peridinium willei (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae)

TAXON, EarlyView.
Abstract Freshwater Peridinium willei (Peridiniaceae) is globally distributed, but reports linking its morphologies with DNA sequence data remain scarce. The taxonomy of the species, and its infraspecific taxa, remain ambiguous due to the lack of DNA sequence data for the original and type material.
Arwin Ahmadpur, Dana C. Eisenhöld, Eva Facher, Marc Gottschling, Selin Gürkan, Borislava P. Hristova, Johanna Knechtel, Paula M.E. Lehner, Hemingway Nyoka, Paweł M. Owsianny, Chiara Peters, Hélène Reich, Eva Reicheneder, Alexander Rockinger, Cecilia Teodora Satta, Marina Stark, F. Sara Uslu, Anže Žerdoner Čalasan   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lexical inference training for homonyms: Two randomized controlled trials for children with English as a first and an additional language

British Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Many words have multiple meanings, which present challenges to learning, yet research has yet to identify effective interventions for homonyms. Lexical inference may be a promising strategy. Aim To evaluate a brief, novel lexical inference intervention for homonyms. Samples Children aged 7–8 years (Study 1: N = 180, Study 2: N = 76).
Sophie A. Booton, Julia M. H. Birchenough, Katie Gilligan‐Lee, Fiona Jelley, Victoria A. Murphy   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

HOMONYMS IN FOREIGN AND RUSSIAN DICTIONARIES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE(based on the homonym ‘lie’)

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2016
The article analyses various ways of representing homonyms in different types of dictionaries of the English language (bilingual and monolingual). The author considers the influence of these representative methods on students’ perception of homonyms ...
I Y Cherepanov
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Comparative Analysis of Contextual Usage of the Lexemes мiръ / миръ / мир and their translations into Spanish

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
In the critical literature devoted to the L.N. Tolstoy’s novel «War and Peace», the contradictory contexts of usage of the lexemes мiръ / миръ / мир and their relation to homonymy, were repeatedly discussed.
Marina O. Chichina
doaj   +1 more source

A Natural Language Processing Approach to Identifying Partisan Framing of Climate Change Denialism, Fatalism, and Solutions in US Congressional Speeches

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the evolution of climate change discourse in the United States Congress from 1987 to 2017, employing natural language processing (NLP) techniques to analyze floor speeches. Using a la carte (ALC) word embeddings, we investigate how Democratic and Republican members of Congress frame climate change, focusing on denialist ...
Joseph Charles Van Matre, Isabel L. Krakoff, Allegra H. Fullerton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A new name and a new synonym in Miconia (Melastomataceae)

PhytoKeys, 2011
The name Miconia densiflora Cogniaux is a later homonym of M. densiflora (Gardner) Naudin, but since we propose it as a taxonomic synoym of M. caudata (Bonpl.) DC., we do not provide a new name. The name Miconia longicuspis Herzog is a later homonym of M.
Renato Goldenberg, Susanne Renner
doaj   +1 more source

The Tree of Chivalry and the Black Lady: Juana of Castile's 1496 Joyous Entry into Brussels☆

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Kupferstichkabinett MS 78D5 (Staatliche Museen Berlin) presents an iconographic account of the Joyous Entry of Juana of Castile into Brussels on 9 December 1496. In this article, we newly identify a rare visual record of a civic contribution to a tournament within the manuscript.
Nadia T. van Pelt, Olivia Robinson, Meg Twycross   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An experimental investigation of HAM, a novel mnemonic technique for learning L2 homonyms and homophones

Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2018
Over the past 40 years, extensive research has examined the effectiveness of mnemonics for vocabulary learning. Much of this research has investigated the keyword method (Atkinson & Raugh, 1975), which involves linking an image related to a to-be ...
Charles M. Mueller
doaj   +1 more source

The double modal construction in English world wide

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
wiley   +1 more source