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‘We welcome migrants and the tourists come’: postmodern hospitality in Palermo, Sicily
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 537-554, September 2024.Abstract In Palermo, Sicily, actors use the metaphor of hospitality to profess cosmopolitan attitudes towards ‘migrants’. This raises a conceptual puzzle: hospitality and cosmopolitanism represent contradictory models of social ethics. But an ethnography of one social enterprise reveals that the hospitality in use is not traditional hospitality. Rather,
Margaret Neil
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Affordances perspective and grammaticalization: Incorporation of language, environment and users in the model of semantic paths [PDF]
, 2015 The present paper demonstrates that insights from the affordances perspective can contribute to developing a more comprehensive model of grammaticalization.
Andrason, Alexander, Visser, Marianna
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Simplified detection of genetic background admixture using artificial intelligence
Clinical Genetics, Volume 106, Issue 3, Page 247-257, September 2024.Admixture refers to the mixing of genetic backgrounds within individuals in a population. Sometimes this mixture can be associated with a specific trait. We developed a fast machine learning tool called Admix‐AI that uses genetic ancestry informative DNA markers to determine the amount of admixed DNA so that genetically similar individuals can be ...
Rini Pauly, Frank Alexander Feltus
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La morfologia nominale nell’italiano L2 di minori stranieri non accompagnati: analfabetismo, acquisizione, didattica [PDF]
, 2019 Il contributo esplora la possibilità di tracciare specificità nel processo di acquisizione della morfologia nominale nell’italiano L2 di apprendenti privi di competenze di scrittura in lingua madre e debolmente o per nulla scolarizzati al loro arrivo in ...
Egle Mocciaro
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Developmental Science, Volume 27, Issue 5, September 2024.Abstract Executive functions (EFs) in early childhood are predictors of later developmental outcomes and school readiness. Much of the research on EFs and their psychosocial correlates has been conducted in high‐income, minority world countries, which represent a small and biased portion of children globally.
Bosiljka Milosavljevic +17 more
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Le marka dans l'ensemble dialectal mandingue [PDF]
, 2006 La langue mandingue est un vaste continuum linguistique recouvrant une zone de l'Afrique Occidentale qui s’étend de l’embouchure de la Gambie à l’Ouest à la frontière occidentale du Ghana à l’Est.
Diallo, Mohamadou
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Blood pressure and the hypertension care cascade in The Gambia: Findings from a nationwide survey
The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, Volume 26, Issue 5, Page 563-572, May 2024.Abstract Community treatment of hypertension in sub‐Saharan Africa is hampered by gaps at several stages of the care cascade. We compared blood pressure (BP) levels (systolic, diastolic and pulse pressures) in four groups of participants by hypertension and treatment status.
Modou Jobe +8 more
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Ajami script for the Mande languages [PDF]
, 2014 Arabic-based (Ajami) writing has been used for Mande languages, most probably, since the times of the Ancient Mali (13-16 centuries). It is still in use among Mandinka in Senegal, Gambia and Guinea Bissau, among Susu and Mogofin in Guinea, and to a ...
Vydrin, Valentin
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A multimedia consent tool for research participants in the Gambia: a randomized controlled trial. [PDF]
, 2015 OBJECTIVE: To assess the effectiveness of a multimedia informed consent tool for adults participating in a clinical trial in the Gambia. METHODS: Adults eligible for inclusion in a malaria treatment trial (n = 311) were randomized to receive information ...
Afolabi, Muhammed Olanrewaju +9 more
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L\u2019Italiano e l\u2019alfabeto per i nuovi arrivati [PDF]
, 2017 In recent years, thousands of refugees and asylum seekers have arrived at the port of Palermo, including a large number of teenagers without any adult caregivers. They are called Unaccompanied Minors. A significant part of them remain in the city and are
D'Agostino, M.
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