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Speech Biomarkers for Quantifying Effects of Subthalamic Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson's Disease

open access: yesAnnals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective Dysarthria is one of the most common and disabling side effects of subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN‐DBS) in Parkinson's disease (PD). Stimulation often exacerbates speech dysfunction beyond the effects of PD progression, likely because of current spread to structures surrounding the STN.
Petr Krýže   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reconceptualising ‘agency in mobility’: Agency for becoming and other forms of agency in study abroad

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Study‐abroad programs are increasingly adopted and supported by institutions and governments as a strategic tool for deepening internationalisation and public diplomacy through people‐to‐people, institution‐to‐institution and country‐to‐country connections.
Ly Thi Tran, Thinh Huynh
wiley   +1 more source

Flight of the dragons: a global review of migration in Odonata

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Insects are the most abundant and ecologically important animal migrants. Yet, we know relatively little about the patterns and processes underlying insect migration. Dragonflies (Anisoptera) and damselflies (Zygoptera) comprise the ancient insect order Odonata, whose ancestors were the first organisms to fly on Earth.
Johanna S.U. Hedlund   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review of the fauna associated with wild and farmed mussels and oysters in the Mediterranean

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mussels and oysters are important ecosystem engineers which modify the physical and chemical characteristics of the environment and create habitats that support highly diverse associated communities. In the Mediterranean Sea, the native Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis and the European flat oyster Ostrea edulis, together the ...
Barbara Mikac   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Institutional Work in Sustainability Reporting: Scale Development and Validation in the Oil and Gas Sector

open access: yesSustainable 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
wiley   +1 more source

Proto-Indo-European ‘fox’ and the reconstruction of an athematic ḱ-stem

open access: yes, 2021
This paper presents a detailed etymological analysis of words for ‘fox’ in Indo-European (IE) languages. We argue that most IE ‘fox’-words go back to two distinct PIE stems: *h₂lō̆p-eḱ- ‘fox’ and *ulp-i- ‘wildcat, fox’.
Sluis, P.S. van   +12 more
core   +1 more source

How weather got its words: a history of meteorological English – Part 1: Old English to the Age of Discovery

open access: yesWeather, EarlyView.
The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary among its peers in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the diverse origins of the words we use. In this two‐part paper, we will explore these origins, including the Pontic‐Caspian steppe, the British Empire, latinophone scientists and a TV show. We
Kieran M. R. Hunt
wiley   +1 more source

Osservazioni sulle correlative in vedico

open access: yesAtti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2014
The study of the structure of correlative sentences is of great importance in the context of Indo-European syntax, since this strategy of relativization is present in all earliest attested Indo-European languages, or, at least in the archaic phases of ...
Massimo Vai
doaj   +1 more source

How weather got its words: a history of meteorological English – Part 2: the scientific age and beyond

open access: yesWeather, EarlyView.
The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the origins of the words we use. In this paper, we will shed light on these origins, including the Pontic–Caspian steppe, the British Empire and, of course, a TV show.
Kieran M. R. Hunt
wiley   +1 more source

CASE STUDIES OF CULTURAL COMMUNICATION CONCEPTS EXPRESSED IN THE GERMANIC TERMS FOR ‘SPEECH’. THE HISTORICAL LINGUISTIC BACKGROUND OF A CONCEPT AS GROUND FOR STUDIES IN CONTRASTIVE RHETORIC [PDF]

open access: yesStudii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Straine Aplicate, 2012
This article refers to the studies of ‘contrastive rhetoric’ from a historical perspective examining ‘language contact’-situations of Germanic languages within the IndoEuropean group.
Fee-Alexandra Haase
doaj  

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