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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue S1, Page 73-90, April 2025.In the Ik mountains in Uganda, only few old people still have the skills to ‘see time’ with sundials. Common ways of knowing time and age now include phones and ID cards in digital registers. I follow the elder seer Komol to explore how changing the measures of time influences the experience of time and age. How do being a ‘time being’ and ideas about ‘
Lotte Meinert
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The Role of English Language in Nigerian Development [PDF]
, 2019 :The language policy in Nigeria granted the English language the status of being the sole official language, and the language of instruction in the country.
Iskandar, Iskandar +1 more
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Negotiating identities: Inuit tuberculosis evacuees in the 1940s-1950s [PDF]
, 2008 Au milieu des années 1940, le gouvernement canadien réalisa un examen de dépistage auprès des Inuit et autres populations autochtones qui habitaient au nord du Canada et évacua ceux qui présentaient des symptômes de la tuberculose vers les hôpitaux du ...
Holton, Tara L. +2 more
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Child Development, Volume 95, Issue 6, Page 1879-1893, November/December 2024.Abstract Few studies have focused on off‐reserve Indigenous children and families. This nationally representative, cross‐sectional study (data collected from 2006 to 2007) examined Indigenous‐ and non‐Indigenous‐specific determinants associated with positive socioemotional and behavioral well‐being among First Nations children living off‐reserve in ...
Sawayra Owais +7 more
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Enfances, Familles, Générations, 2016 Aboriginal families have suffered transformations and long-term disruptions following the nefarious effects of colonialism, forced relocation and residential schools.
Tatiana Garakani
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Using interactive multimedia to document and communicate Inuit knowledge [PDF]
, 2005 Media technology has acted as both a threat to local knowledge and language, and a tool to strengthen it. More and more, indigenous peoples are using media for their own purposes from art to communication to education.
Gearheard, Shari
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Improving Coverage of an Inuktitut Morphological Analyzer Using a Segmental Recurrent Neural Network
, 2017 Languages such as Inuktitut are particularly challenging for natural language processing because of polysynthesis, abundance of grammatical features represented via morphology, morphophone-mics, dialect variation, and noisy data.
J. Micher
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Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 129, Issue 8, August 2024.Abstract This study investigates the biogeochemical drivers of aragonite saturation state (ΩAr) in Baffin Bay, with a focus on the relatively undersampled west Greenland shelf. Our findings reveal two main depth‐dependant processes controlling the spatial distribution of ΩAr in Baffin Bay; within the upper 200 m, lower ΩAr coincides with increasing ...
Tonya M. Burgers +8 more
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Meta Ingognita: Canadian Museum of Civilization Announces Project to Investigate Frobisher’s Voyages to Canadian Arctic [PDF]
, 2020 In a July 26, 1991 communique, the Canadian Museum of Civilization announced a Canadian-led international project to investigate archaeological sites in the Baffin Island area, once known as Meta Incognita, or the Unknown Shore.
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Limnology and Oceanography, Volume 69, Issue 3, Page 667-680, March 2024.Abstract Microbial communities play a crucial role in ecosystem functioning, with contributions that can vary among taxonomic domains and size fractions. However, microbial assembly processes for bacteria and eukaryotes are seldom characterized together using size fractionation, especially in flowing waters.
Marie‐Amélie Blais +3 more
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