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From “Greater America” to America’s Music: Gilbert Chase and the Historiography of Borders [PDF]
, 2019 This essay considers the hotly debated U.S. border and its relationship to music historiography vis-à-vis the unconventional career of Gilbert Chase (1906-92), the first U.S. musicologist to take seriously the music of the Spanish-speaking world.
Hess, Carol A.
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article outlines possibilities for counter configurations of data‐based urbanisms, whereby data practices, rather than reproducing logics of urban entrepreneurialism and smart‐city governance, are made from within urban peripheral territories.
Andrés Luque‐Ayala, Rodrigo Firmino
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Bibliography on open access in Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF]
, 2012 Bibliography on open access in Latin America and the Caribbean. Selection mainly based on open access publications describing open access initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Prepared for UNESCO-Latin America and the Caribbean Section of the
Babini, Dominique
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Does Inequality Blur Class Lines? Meritocratic Attitudes in Comparative Perspective
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars of inequality generally find that lower‐class individuals are more skeptical of meritocratic narratives that link economic success to individual work effort. However, past research has yielded inconclusive findings about how economic inequality affects meritocratic attitudes across different class groups.
Roshan K. Pandian, Ronald Kwon
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Arabic-Afrikaans Literature at the Cape
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2018 Tuan Guru – the first official imam at the Cape – used Malayu as the medium of instruction in the Dorp Street madrasah (Muslim religious school) which he established at the end of the 18th century. This changed in the middle of the 19th century when Cape
Suleman Essop Dangor
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SocietiesDyslexia-friendly typefaces for the Latin script have been proliferating during the past decade. The typefaces are designed to tackle the challenges faced in a dyslexic reading experience by manipulating their letter forms and typographic attributes ...
Muneera Mohamed Hejres, Amanda J. Tinker
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Moussons, 2015 The Vietnamese national language (quốc ngữ), in use today, uses the Latin script. Albeit the Romanized script of the quốc ngữ seems fitted to the use of the Internet on a large extent, for many of them, Vietnamese users seem lost when looking for foreign
Philippe Le Failler
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Accuracy Analysis of Latin-to-Balinese Script Transliteration Method
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE), 2018 Balinese script writing, as one of Balinese cultural richness, is going to extinct because of its decreasing use. This research is one of the ways to preserve Balinese script writing using technological approach. This research focused on accuracy analysis of Latin-to-Balinese script transliteration method on mobile application since mobile computing ...
I N. Jampel, Gede Indrawan, I W. Widiana
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Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Grasslands in Central Europe are increasingly affected by droughts, leading to lower hay yields and reduced profits for dairy farmers. The insurance hypothesis suggests that extensively managed, species‐rich grassland is more drought resistant than intensively managed grassland.
Julia Kunkel +3 more
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
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