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Increased utilitarian value of invasive species in regions with long invasion history may limit public engagement for invasion control

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Positive perceptions of invasive species can hinder effective management, especially if management efforts that are rooted in scientific theories are misaligned with local ecological knowledge. We documented local ecological knowledge about land invasibility as predicted by invasion biology theories. Participants with greater local ecological knowledge
Laurel Mael Philpott, Orou G. Gaoue
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Advancing pharmacometrics in Africa—Transition from capacity development toward job creation

CPT: Pharmacometrics &Systems Pharmacology, Volume 14, Issue 3, Page 407-419, March 2025.
Abstract Trained pharmacometricians remain scarce in Africa due to limited training opportunities, lack of a pharmaceutical product development ecosystem, and emigration to high‐income countries. The Applied Pharmacometrics Training (APT) fellowship program was established to address these gaps and specifically foster job creation for talent retention.
Goonaseelan (Colin) Pillai, Samer Mouksassi, Innocent G. Asiimwe, Craig R. Rayner, Steven Kern, Phumla Sinxadi, Paolo Denti, Eric Decloedt, Catriona Waitt, Bernhards R. Ogutu, Rik de Greef   +10 more
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Idioms and other constructions in American Sign Language

Cognitive Linguistics
Idioms are phrases like English [hit the sack], meaning ‘go to bed’. For linguists working with sign languages, a question arises: “What do idioms look like in a sign language?” This paper proposes a definition of idiom that can be used to identify ...
Lepic Ryan
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Passive Acoustic Identification of Social Groups in the Hainan Gibbon

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Passive acoustic monitoring offers a non‐invasive means of assessing visually hard‐to‐survey wildlife species with distinctive vocalizations. We evaluated whether deep learning can identify Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus) social groups from their calls.
Emmanuel Kabuga, Emmanuel Dufourq, Nonhlanhla L. Luphade, Samuel T. Turvey, Heidi Ma, Susan M. Cheyne, Hui Liu, Jessica V. Bryant, Qing Chen, Wenyong Li, Zhiwei Liu, Zhaoli Zhou, Stefan Britz, Bubacarr Bah, Ian Durbach   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding idioms and idiomatic expressions in context: a look at idioms found in an Irish soap opera

Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2019
This paper looks at idioms drawn from a corpus of soap opera and compares their communicative functions to those performed by idioms in corpora of naturally-occurring conversation.
María Palma Fahey
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Frazeologie a idiomatika: Jejich podstata a proměnlivost názorů na ně : Phraseology and Idiomatics: Their Essence and the Changing Views on the Subject [PDF]

Časopis pro Moderní Filologii, 2016
The paper addresses most of the current problems in phraseology. General observations on the universal character of idioms and the major aspects of the topic are followed by critical analysis of a prototypical statement about the essential nature of ...
František Čermák
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Influencer Credibility and Responsible Tourism: A Study of Ecotourists' Economic, Socio‐Cultural, and Environmental Responsible Behaviors in Sarawak

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The tourism sector faces pressing sustainability challenges, especially during crises. The rural communities reliant on ecotourism remain vulnerable, highlighting the need for responsible tourism. This study integrates social cognitive theory (SCT) and the elaboration likelihood model (ELM) to examine how self‐efficacy and outcome expectation ...
Wei Chiang Chan, Chee Hua Chin, Winnie Poh Ming Wong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

IDIOMS IN THE PROSE WRITINGS OF TURKISH AUTHORS FROM NORTH MACEDONIA

Trakia Journal of Sciences
Over centuries, the Macedonian language, influenced by Turkish, has absorbed not only Turkish words and phrases but also numerous idioms. Some of these idioms were translated word for word, some were adapted by translating a single word ...
H. Skuka
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Rural Intangible Cultural Heritage Governance: Discursive Alignment for Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Intangible cultural heritage governance is increasingly relevant to sustainable rural development, yet the conditions under which public, private and residents align priorities, responsibilities and legitimacy remain underexplored. This study examines how these actors conceptualise, prioritise and discursively legitimise it in Bergamo (Italy).
Berta Tubillejas‐Andrés, Walesska Schlesinger, Amparo Cervera‐Taulet, Francisco Higón‐Tamarit   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Smuggling Sovereignty: Trade, Transgression, and State Authority

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global supply chains are saturated with transgressions—corruption, smuggling, document forgery, and other practices that blur the line between legality and illegality. States do not merely endure these practices; they actively shape the conditions for them, producing the very illegal systems they then claim to police.
Dejana Kostić
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