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Alternation of must, have to, and need to in English as a lingua franca
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores the grammatical variability of modal auxiliary verbs in English as a lingua franca. Focusing on the ongoing change must, have to, and need to, this research utilizes two spoken corpora: the Vienna–Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) and the Asian Corpus of English (ACE).
Chunyuan Nie +2 more
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World Englishes, applied linguistics, and air traffic control communication
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract Air traffic control (ATC) communication in international aviation is conducted in a variety often referred to as Aviation English. Based on an analysis of the Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), two specialized sub‐registers of Aviation English are identified in previous ...
Markus Bieswanger
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Mechanistic Information and Causal Continuity [PDF]
, 2010 Some biological processes (our examples are DNA expression and a reflex response in the leech) move from step to step in a way that cannot be completely understood solely in terms of causes and correlations.
Bogen, Jim, Machamer, Peter
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Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates regional variation in Superlative Objoid constructions (SOCs) and their prepositional variant (at‐SOCs). SOCs combine a possessive pronoun with a superlative adjective. These function as manner‐degree modifiers in a context where the possessive is in postverbal position and correlative with the subject, as in they tried
Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt
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Some potential occupational and environmental hazards associated with fish pond production in Nigeria [PDF]
, 2005 The paper highlights the concept of information and the significance of environmental and occupational hazards associated with pond fish production in Nigeria and discuss the possible options for the ways forward.
Ibiwoye, T.I.I. +4 more
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Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.Abstract Control of frontal plane mechanics requires active integration of sensory feedback to regulate stability in response to gait perturbations, such as split‐belt walking (SBW). In comparison to sagittal plane mechanics, mediolateral (ML) kinematic and kinetic adaptations to split‐belt perturbations are less extensively reported.
Norah M. Nyangau +3 more
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Brazilian Journal of BiologyThe Island of Martin Garcia lies at the confluence of the Uruguay and Paraná Rivers (upper Río de la Plata). This island is an outcrop of the crystalline basement.
II. César +3 more
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New Host and Geographic Distribution Records for the Fish Leech Myzobdella reducta (Meyer, 1940) (Hirudinida: Piscicolidae) [PDF]
, 2014 Allen, J. W., Jr. +8 more
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‘The Extraordinary Case of the Flesh-Eating and Blood-Drinking Cavaliers’ [PDF]
, 2010 In May 1650, five royalists at an alehouse in Milton, Berkshire were reported to have tried to drink a health to the exiled Charles II in blood, to which end they ‘unanimously agreed to cut a peece of their Buttocks, and fry their flesh that was cut off ...
McShane, Angela
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Blue plaque review series: Thomas Graham Brown: Before his time
Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.Abstract Thomas Graham Brown made a seminal discovery, published in 1911 while he was a Carnegie Fellow in the University of Liverpool laboratory of Nobel Prize winner Charles S. Sherrington. Working in cats, he showed that rhythmic ‘voluntary’ behaviour, such as stepping and, by inference, walking, does not result from a chain of reflex events, but ...
Ronald L. Calabrese, Eve Marder
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