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The spatial representation of the Croatian Encyclopedia of Technology: from idea to fruition

Studia Lexicographica
Highly informative content, objectivity, credibility, and the organisation of knowledge are just some of the characteristics that make encyclopedias and online encyclopedic projects reliable works that provide users with efficient access to information ...
Jasmina Tolj Smolčić
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Nonidentifiability of Within‐Cluster Dependence Parameters in Analytic Survey Inference

WIREs Computational Statistics, Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2026.
Superpopulation parameter pairs with equiprobable observed‐outcome probabilities in Example 1. If only the nonrandom inclusion weights were known, along with the sampled data, all the red plotted points (each with its own sampling‐mechanism parameter values) yield equal likelihoods.
Eric V. Slud
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Cost–benefit analysis and ‘next best’ methods to evaluate the efficiency of social policies: As in pitching horseshoes, closeness matters

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Volume 97, Issue 1, Page 17-41, March 2026.
Abstract Many policymakers are unwilling, or think that it is infeasible, to perform comprehensive cost–benefit analysis (CBA) of programmes in social policy arenas. What principles actually underlie CBA? An understanding is necessary to assess whether other evaluation methods are close enough to CBA to provide useful information on social efficiency ...
Aidan R. Vining, Anthony E. Boardman
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Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900

Area, Volume 58, Issue 1, March 2026.
Short Abstract This paper examines how the Royal Geographical Society's (RGS's) Library and Map Committee disciplined the exchange of the first English‐language geographical journal in the nineteenth century. The periodical's archive reveals the institutional mechanisms that shaped the journal's networks of gifting and exchange but also the deliberate ...
Benjamin Newman
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Legal grounds

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 110-135, March 2026.
Abstract It is overwhelmingly plausible that part of what gives individuals their particular legal or institutional statuses is the fact that there are general laws or other policies in place that specify the conditions under which something is to have those statuses.
Louis deRosset
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English Influence on the Icelandic Lexicon

NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2004
The study of loanwords has until now not played an important role in Icelandic linguistic research, and only a few articles have been written on foreign influence on modern Icelandic.
Guðrún Kvaran
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Nigerian English research: Developments and directions

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 182-198, March 2026.
Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
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The Americanization of Nigerian English spelling and punctuation

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 76-95, March 2026.
Abstract Spelling is the most standardized level of language, and prescriptive spelling norms in former British colonies often advocate adherence to British spelling norms which differs from the local linguistic reality. Hence, recent research on the evolution of postcolonial Englishes and the Americanization of Englishes worldwide has questioned the ...
Temitayo Olatoye
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Biographism in the literary-historical and lexicographic method of Branko Vodnik

Studia Lexicographica
In this paper, we try to shed light on the biographical component in Branko Vodnikʼs oeuvre, with an emphasis on metabiographical and methodological manifestations in his literary-historical and critical articles and in the articles in the Serbian ...
Tea Rogić Musa
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LEXICAL MEANING AS INTERPRETED IN QUOTIDIAN AND IMPROMPTU LEXICOGRAPHY

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2016
The paper discusses different forms and means of lexical meaning representation in quotidian and impromptu lexicography, as well as common and different trends in word meaning interpretation within different subdivisions of folk lexicography.
V. D. Chernyak
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