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Negotiating the Terminological Borders of ‘Language Mediation’ in English and Italian. A Discussion on the Repercussions of Terminology on the Practice, Self-perception and Role of Language Mediators in Italy

open access: yesLingue Culture Mediazioni, 2015
This paper explores the confusion regarding the use of the terms ‘language mediation’ and ‘cultural mediation’ in Italy by looking at some of the key factors that define this activity, and by comparing it to the way in which the term itself and the ...
Mette Rudvin, Cinzia Giacinta Spinzi
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Ancient Greek Myths in Modern Greek Poetry: Angelos Sikelianos and Daedalus as a Symbol of Freedom

open access: yesLitera: Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi
Ancient Greek myths, which have emerged as one of the main sources of inspiration in literature throughout history and have been interpreted many times with different meanings by various authors, have become a powerful tool in conveying themes such as ...
Aslı Damar Çakmak
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The Inflow of Southeast Asian Healthcare Worker Candidates in Japan:Japanese Reactions to the Possibility of Cultural and Ethnic Diversity

open access: yesThe Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 2016
This paper examines the social and cultural meanings of the incorporation of Southeast Asian healthcare migrant workers in Japan, focusing in particular on Japanese attitudes and perspectives.
Kenji Kaneko
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Affectivity as stance: multimodal stance-taking in audiovisual documentations of Polish and German parliamentary debates

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
This paper presents a media-aesthetic framework to study affectivity as a stance. This framework opens up a new perspective on multimodal affective stance-taking in the context of specific media ecologies.
Cornelia Müller   +7 more
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The Submerged, Post-Truth “Island of Happiness” in Michel Houellebecq’s Extension du domaine de la lutte

open access: yesHumanities, 2023
This article proposes a Debordian reading of Michel Houellebecq’s first work Extension du domaine de la lutte that would thrust him into the spotlight as France’s most popular and controversial writer.
Keith Moser
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From Odessa to “Little Odessa”: Migration of Food and Myth

open access: yesOpen Cultural Studies, 2023
National cuisine represents an important part of our identity. Being able to cook or eat familiar foods when living abroad becomes nearly as important as being able to use one’s mother tongue. This article discusses the phenomenon of Odessan cuisine both
Kabanen Inna
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Spatiotemporal and quantitative analyses of phosphoinositides – fluorescent probe—and mass spectrometry‐based approaches

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Fluorescent probes allow dynamic visualization of phosphoinositides in living cells (left), whereas mass spectrometry provides high‐sensitivity, isomer‐resolved quantitation (right). Their synergistic use captures complementary aspects of lipid signaling. This review illustrates how these approaches reveal the spatiotemporal regulation and quantitative
Hiroaki Kajiho   +3 more
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Reconstructing enzyme evolution by protein engineering

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Natural enzyme evolution can be retraced by protein engineering methods such as directed evolution, rational design, and ancestral sequence reconstruction. These approaches reveal how enzymes emerged from ligand‐binding scaffolds, developed varying substrate preferences, formed oligomeric complexes, adapted to environmental changes, and evolved novel ...
Lukas Drexler   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Polarization‐resolved femtosecond Vis/IR spectroscopy tailored for resolving weak signals in biological samples using minimal sample volume

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Unique biological samples, such as site‐specific mutant proteins, are available only in limited quantities. Here, we present a polarization‐resolved transient infrared spectroscopy setup with referencing to improve signal‐to‐noise tailored towards tracing small signals. We provide an overview of characterizing the excitation conditions for polarization‐
Clark Zahn, Karsten Heyne
wiley   +1 more source

Introducing the First Module of the Multimedia Corpus of Spoken Kazakh Language

open access: yesJournal of Open Humanities Data
The first module of the Multimedia Corpus of Spoken Kazakh Language is a dataset documenting contemporary Kazakh as spoken in Kazakhstan and Xinjiang (China). It includes 33 audio recordings (ca.
Giorgia Troiani, Andrey Filchenko
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