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Comparison of Czech and English Idioms Containing Expressions of Quantity [PDF]

, 2017
Tato bakalářská práce se zabývá komparací anglických a českých idiomů vyjadřujících množství. Práce se skládá z teoretické a praktické části. Teoretická část se zaměřuje na definování pojmu idiom, jeho charakteristické rysy a srovnání idiomu s ostatními ...
Kočárníková, Markéta
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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
wiley   +1 more source

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

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
wiley   +1 more source

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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Elaboration on Production of Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions by ESL Learners

Sakarya University Journal of Education, 2014
Learning a language implies learning both, its literal and figurative elements. Idioms, as figurative expressions in language, are considered as very important part of communication, since they are commonly and very often used in English language in ...
Harun Bastug, Selma Salıhagıc
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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

Repurposing Bird‐Based Acoustic Models for Amphibian Surveys: Strengths and Limitations in Real‐World Deployments

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
In this study, we developed AnuraSearch, an open‐source classifier for 11 Ukrainian amphibian species, by repurposing the avian BirdNET algorithm via transfer learning to process over 18,000 h of autonomous acoustic recordings. Although the model demonstrated high precision and successfully reconstructed detailed seasonal and diel vocal activity ...
Vasylyna Strus, Yurii Strus, Nazar Smirnov, Anna Fedorova, Nataliia Suriadna, Mykola Drohvalenko   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Animals in Bengali idioms [PDF]

, 2010
The thesis describes Bengali idioms in which the main component is a name of an animal. It concentrates on the roles and characters of the particular animals in Bengali idioms and consequently compares them with the animal characters which come from ...
Kožíšková, Tereza
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