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Feral Territories: The Suburbanization of Nature in Eastern Bangkok
ABSTRACT Between the 1960s and 1980s, American and international financial and technical assistance spurred men with means to bring together concrete, asphalt, timber, and steel to construct unplanned, poorly serviced (because they were unplanned), and expensive subdivisions at the outskirts of what was then central Bangkok.
Samson Lim
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ABSTRACT Paludomidae is a diverse family of limnic gastropods in the Cerithioidea, with a distribution range including most of tropical sub‐Saharan Africa, the Nile Valley, Madagascar, the Seychelles, as well as South and Southeast Asia. Its systematics and taxonomy are currently in a state of confusion, with Thailand being inhabited by probably two ...
Matthias Glaubrecht +6 more
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The phylogeny of the Leptanillinae is inferred under maximum‐likelihood, Bayesian and coalescent‐based approaches from a total of 25 UCE alignments curated to compensate for an array of systematic biases. All major clades within the Leptanillinae receive robust statistical support across the bulk of the 80 phylogenomic analyses, with exceptions ...
Zachary H. Griebenow
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TEACHING SPANISH IN THE UNIVERSAL MONARCHY: TOMÁS PINPIN'S GRAMMAR FOR TAGALOGS (1610)
ABSTRACT In 1610, a Tagalog printer named Tomás Pinpin published a Spanish grammar in Tagalog that was intended to help natives avoid errors and misunderstandings in their interactions with Spanish colonizers. This article attempts to clarify the book's genesis and to contextualize it within the global expansion of Spanish. Pinpin exemplifies a pattern
ALAN DURSTON
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Loanwords in English from Local Languages in Indonesia
This research engages with the aim to find out at least three things related closely to loanwords of English from Indonesian and local languages in Indonesia, including (1) which Indonesian words are borrowed by English, (2) what kind of loanword type ...
Ana Purwitasari
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Pliocene Forest Fragmentation Shaped Speciation in Tropical Asia's Giant Squirrels (Ratufa)
ABSTRACT Tropical Asia's complex, dynamic geological and climatic history, coupled with its diverse topography, provides a fascinating setting to study evolutionary processes driving high biodiversity. This phylogenomic research reconstructs the evolutionary history of the strictly arboreal and forest‐dependent Oriental Giant Squirrels (Ratufa) to gain
Arlo Hinckley +6 more
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Austroasiatic loanwords in Austronesian languages
This paper investigates lexical borrowing from Austroasiatic into Austronesian languages. It does so for the following contact stages and interactions between these languages following the Austronesian overseas dispersal: (Stage 1) early contacts between
Waruno Mahdi
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A Green Energy Frontier Long in the Making: From Tin to Solar Power in the Riau Islands, Indonesia
Abstract The Riau Islands in Indonesia, Southeast Asia are an emerging green energy frontier. This paper shows the long‐term making of this frontier. Through qualitative research, I trace colonial machinations for the capture of agrarian and mineral resources, postcolonial Cold War manoeuvres for the procurement of oil, and the contemporary quest for ...
Nikita Sud
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An efficient green technique of extraction for obtaining functional molecules from black pigmented rice (BPR) is ultrasound‐probe‐assisted extraction (UPAE), which provides a viable alternative for conventional approaches of extraction methods in the formulations of functional or nutraceutical foods on a large scale and a great interest to the academic
Saloni Rai +2 more
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Ethnic differences in the comprehension of Singlish metaphors
This paper seeks to investigate Singaporeans' cultural perceptions via metaphors as tools for investigating culture-specific conceptualizations, zooming into the differences between the comprehension of Singlish metaphors across different ethnic groups ...
Yun-Sxin Lai, Ying-Ying Tan
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