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Why is integration so difficult? Shifting roles of ethics and three idioms for thinking about science, technology and society

Etikk i Praksis: Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics, 2015
Contemporary science and technology research are now expected to become more responsible through collaboration with social scientists and scholars from the humanities.
Rune Nydal
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Elucidating idioms through idioms: A metalinguistic contemplation of some issues on Befogging Idioms

International Journal of English and Literature, 2015
An idiom is a phrase which you cannot understand by putting together the meanings of the words in it. For example, pull your socks up has nothing to do with socks or pulling them up, but means "try your best". There are more than 5500 common idioms suitable for intermediate learners, yet the total number of English idioms is far greater. Idioms (McCaig
Kazem Barzegar, Ja Askari
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The Weak Core, Partition‐Based Universal Stability, and Their Risk Associations Through A Partial Order

Naval Research Logistics (NRL), EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We are concerned with the stability of a transferable‐utility cooperative (TU) game. First, the concept of core can be weakened so that the blocking of changes is limited to only those with multilateral backings. This principle of consensual blocking, as well as the traditional core‐defining one of unilateral blocking and one straddling in ...
Jian Yang
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Stabilising Routines in Complex Emergencies: How Basic Service Continuity Shapes Perceived Security

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how locally embedded actors describe the relationship between basic service continuity and perceived security in complex emergencies, with particular attention to the stabilisation of everyday routines. Using Proximity‐Predictability‐Attributability (PPA) as an analytic lens, we trace how interviewees relate access to water,
Abdullah Gökhan Yaşa, Orçun İmga
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‘They are not predators: They are a higher power’—Relational values and principles framing human–predator relationship in Noongar Country, Southwestern Australia

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Human–predator coexistence presents urgent conservation challenges that demand approaches extending beyond mere conflict mitigation. Indigenous knowledge systems, though historically marginalised by Western science, offer vital insights into ethical, sustainable relationships with nature.
Rocío Almuna, Cristina E. Ramalho, Lynette Knapp, Carol Pettersen, Iris Maude Bonshore, Elizabeth M. Woods, Gail E. Yorkshire‐Selby, Mick Hayden, Rhys Bonshore, Larry Blight, Peter Speldewinde, José Tomás Ibarra, Stephen D. Hopper   +12 more
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Not Batting an Eye: Figurative Meanings of L2 Idioms Do Not Interfere with Literal Uses

Languages
Encountering idioms (hit the sack = “go to bed”) in a second language (L2) often results in a literal-first understanding (“literally hit a sack”). The figurative meaning is retrieved later, subject to idiom familiarity and L2 proficiency, and typically ...
Marianna Kyriacou, Franziska Köder
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Integrating human acceptance into habitat suitability models for snow leopards in northern Bhutan

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Habitat suitability models are commonly used to assess the potential distribution of large carnivores by identifying ecologically favourable areas. However, these models often overlook human dimensions, such as conflict and acceptance, which can lead to overestimation of species ranges and a mismatch between predicted and actual distributions.
Dechen Lham, Dominik M. Behr, Stefan Sommer, Gabriele Cozzi, Arpat Ozgul   +4 more
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High ceilings and ingenuine allies: tapping into the idiom meaning knowledge of first and second language speakers of English

Language and Cognition
Idioms are undoubtedly important for second language (L2) learners, who encounter them in instructed learning, textbooks/resources and in out-of-class language use.
David O’Reilly, Alexander Onysko, Carina Rasse, Lisa Papitsch, Herbert Colston, Iris van der Horst   +5 more
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Digital surveillance of animals and nature recovery

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Digital surveillance technologies (DSTs) are widely applied in nature recovery for their potential to generate novel data on species and ecosystems through digital tracking, automation (e.g. from hazardous locations) and from newly recruited citizen scientists.
William M. Adams
wiley   +1 more source

LOBORSKA KAJKAVŠTINA

Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 1993
Opisuje se loborski idiom, i to fonologija sinkrono i dijakrono, te karakteristike morfologije i tvorbe. Loborska kajkavština idiom je koji pripada malom ljudskom kolektivu, ali je po nekim svojim karakteristikama specifična u mozaiku kajkavskoga ...
Vesna Zečević
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