Wh-islands in degree questions: A semantic approach
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2011 It is proposed that wh-islands with degree questions are unacceptable because they cannot be given a most informative true answer. Wh-islands thus are shown to be similar to other cases of weak islands which have been argued to result from Maximization ...
Márta Abrusán
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The Åland Islands Question: Irredentism and Autonomism in the ‘Archipelago of Peace’ [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de História, 2020 Lying in the Baltic sea, at the entrance of the Gulf of Bothnia, 70km from the Finnish coast and 36 km from that of Sweden, the archipelago of Åland is an autonomous Finnish province.
Deborah Paci
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Cessation of mass drug administration for lymphatic filariasis in Zanzibar in 2006: was transmission interrupted? [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015 BackgroundLymphatic filariasis (LF) is targeted for elimination through annual mass drug administration (MDA) for 4-6 years. In 2006, Zanzibar stopped MDA against LF after five rounds of MDA revealed no microfilaraemic individuals during surveys at ...
Maria P Rebollo +7 more
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Iran's Consolidation of Sovereignty Over the Three Islands (Abu Musa, Big Tunb, Small Tunb) [PDF]
جغرافیا و توسعه, 2023 The main aim of the research is to suggest solutions for consolidating the Islamic Republic of Iran's sovereignty over the three islands of Abu Musa, Big Tunb and Small Tunb.
Ahmad Jansiz, Ehsan Ejazi
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Insularité et mobilités : un observatoire méditerranéen, xvie‑xviiie siècle
Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire, 2022 This article takes a fresh look at islands from an historical perspective. It aims to study them through the lens of mobilities, which enables us to consider islands within the context of more global dynamics of which they are a part.
Mathieu Grenet, Pauline Mailloux
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Islands Erased by Snow and Ice: Approaching the Spatial Philosophy of Cold Water Island Imaginaries [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2016 Representations of islands in Western fiction typically revolve around tropical islands. Critical discourse tends to reproduce this tendency and rarely addresses the specific spatial poetics of cold-water island fictions. This paper discusses three texts
Johannes Riquet
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P53 Manchester Desert Island Question [PDF]
Thorax, 2014 Objectives To determine if specific clinical questions could reliably predict the ultimate inflammatory phenotype of patients attending a severe asthma service. The severe asthma clinic at University Hospital of South Manchester now routinely ask the desert island question (DIQ)….
K. George +5 more
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Between Russia, Sweden, and Finland: The Åland Question Since 1809 [PDF]
Studia Europejskie, 2023 This contribution addresses the strategical, political, and cultural significance of the Åland Islands between Russia, Sweden, and Finland from 1809 to the present day.
Ralph Tuchtenhagen
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The western coast of Africa in Ptolemy's Geography and the location of his prime meridian [PDF]
History of Geo- and Space Sciences, 2016 A controversial question concerning ancient geography is the location of the prime meridian which underlies the position data in Ptolemy's Geography and runs through the Fortunate Islands.
C. Marx
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Lithuanian linguistic islands: research perspectives
Lietuvių Kalba, 2015 This article further discusses the topic of Lithuanian linguistic islands. It focuses on two particular aspects: a) synchronic aspect which is concerned with contemporary situation of the islands; b) diachronic aspect which focuses on the issue of the ...
Vytautas Kardelis
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