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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is widespread consensus on the threats that plastic waste poses to the environment. A significant obstacle to sustainable development, the trade in plastic waste may contribute to plastic pollution. The objective of this research is to look at how the import and export of plastic waste affect the sustainable development of Regional ...
Mustafa Necati Çoban +3 more
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K jedné kapitole z dějin jazykovědy. Příspěvek k 150. výročí úmrtí srovnávacího jazykovědce Augusta Schleichera | One chapter in the history of linguistics. A note on the 150th anniversary of the death of comparative linguist August Schleicher [PDF]
Časopis pro Moderní Filologii, 2018 The article concerns the history of linguistics in the 19th century, in particular August Schleicher’s place in the history of linguistics and his scholarly heritage for linguistics in the 20th century, recalling that he was the founder of a method ...
Lenka Vodrážková
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability reporting has gained significant importance in assessing and enhancing organisational sustainability performance. However, there has been limited focus on how sustainability reporting managers (SRMs) perceive and engage in the institutional work that underpins reporting practices.
Hania Rehman +3 more
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Exploring the Sustainability Landscape of Nature‐Based Solutions in Food Systems
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nature‐based solutions (NbS) offer a pathway toward more resilient food systems. Although previous studies analysed various sustainability benefits of integrating NbS within food systems, the field remains fragmented, with a significant gap in understanding development patterns, emerging research trends at the intersection of NbS, food systems,
Elaheh Jalilzadehazhari
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GéolinguistiqueThe Alpine Lombard (Ticino and Ossola) lexical type ˹bréncul, brén(s)ciol, brìnsc(en), brìnscet˺ &c. ‘juniper’ exhibits an uncommonly conspicuous diatopic variation—57 local forms, together with 30 Alpine Romance and 8 Slavonic comparanda.
Guido Borghi, Vittorio Dell’Aquila
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Vocabulary knowledge plays a crucial role in L2 proficiency, significantly impacting learners' reading comprehension. Although extensive research has explored whether knowledge of base words extends to recognition of derivational forms, results are inconsistent, especially among learners from non‐Indo‐European linguistic backgrounds.
Mastoor Al‐Kaboody +5 more
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Germany’s and European Union’s Indo-Pacific Stance: Towards a Value-Based Pragmatism
РегионологияIntroduction. The growing use of the Indo-Pacific concept in the European and German discourses necessitates a closer scrutiny of its implementation. The author’s hypothesis, founded on the assumption of Germany’s central role in the European Union’s ...
Gleb V. Toropchin
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Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Focusing on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), this study investigates how national security drives the coevolution of China's political risk management support for multinationals and competing countries' reactions. A competing country is a nation‐state that is neither the home nor host country of a multinational but perceives the ...
Shuang Li, Xueli Huang, Fuming Jiang
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Cross-linguistic variation in modality systems: The role of mood
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2010 The St'át'imcets (Lillooet Salish) subjunctive mood appears in nine distinct environments, with a range of semantic effects, including weakening an imperative to a polite request, turning a question into an uncertainty statement, and creating an ...
Lisa Matthewson
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Weather, EarlyView.This study documents the unseasonal and prolonged heavy rain events which occurred in southern China during April 2024. In this series of extreme rainfall events, Guangdong province recorded extreme rainfall exceeding 6‐sigma of climatology, with eleven cities reporting record‐breaking rainfall.
Wai‐Po Tse +2 more
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