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Introduction: The Latvian Lācis

open access: yesCanadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, 2018
"Anna Lacis came to international attention as Asja, Walter Benjamin’s Latvian Bolshevik love interest, and her reputation has tended to rest on that relationship rather than on her influential work mediating between the Weimar German and early Soviet cultural and, in particular, theatrical realms....
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Stance and politeness in spoken Latvian [PDF]

open access: yesLingua Posnaniensis, 2015
Abstract The present article is concerned with the concept of stance and its relationship to face, face work and politeness applied to Latvian spoken discourse. It offers an extensive review of relevant literature on stance and politeness theories, followed by an illustrative analysis of politeness strategies and stance markers found in
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Divergent dimerization mechanisms and conserved DNA-binding function in PFam12 proteins of Borrelia burgdorferi

open access: yesScientific Reports
Lyme disease, caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, is transmitted to mammalian hosts during the feeding process of infected Ixodes ticks. Our previous studies demonstrated that the paralogous gene family 12 (PFam12) consisting of five members ...
Kalvis Brangulis   +6 more
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On Lithuanian-Latvian Theatrical Relations

open access: yesLiteratūra (Vilnius), 1973
There are published letters and memoirs of the Latvian cultural worker and writer Karlis Freinbergs (1884-1967). In his letters to Lithuanian writer Liudas Gira written in 1922-24 one can find the material of great interest on the beginning of ...
Stasys Skrodenis
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In The Eye of the Beholder – Attitudes towards Visual Poetry in Latvian Literature

open access: yesInterlitteraria, 2019
Visual poetry in Latvian literature is still an extraordinary phenomenon. In this case, by extraordinary is meant its scarce appearance among the corpus of Latvian literary texts – only very few examples of it exist in Latvian literature even in the 21st
Mārtiņš Laizāns
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Shift of use of capital (upper case) letters in english and Latvian marketing texts

open access: yesEesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, 2007
This paper is largely observational. It discusses shifts in capitalization practices in marketing texts in Latvian. Two of the observed shifts are changes in accepted Latvian orthography (in Latvian texts) and one is an extension of Latvian changes into ...
Eva Birzniece
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Significantly altered peripheral blood cell DNA methylation profile as a result of immediate effect of metformin use in healthy individuals

open access: yesClinical Epigenetics, 2018
Background Metformin is a widely prescribed antihyperglycemic agent that has been also associated with multiple therapeutic effects in various diseases, including several types of malignancies.
Ilze Elbere   +14 more
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Ilmalikud laulud infoallikate ja haridusvahenditena talurahvavalgustuse ajal

open access: yesKeel ja Kirjandus
The written and oral culture of the Baltic indigenous peoples underwent gradual changes in the late 18th and 19th centuries. According to Wolfgang Welsch, vision is linked with knowledge and science, while hearing relates to faith and religion (Welsch ...
Māra Grudule
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Thixotropic Properties of Latvian Clays

open access: yesEnvironment. Technology. Resources. Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference, 2015
This research studies Latvia originated Devon (Tūja, Skaņkalne), quaternary (Ceplīši), Jurassic, (Strēļi) and Triassic (Vadakste) deposit clays as well as Lithuania originated Triassic (Akmene) deposit clays. Thixotropic properties of clay were researched by measuring relative viscosity of clay in water suspensions.
Valentīna Stepanova   +2 more
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