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Children's Constructive Play as Materialised Memory Practice

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how memory becomes entangled with materials in children's constructive play. Using visual ethnography, elicitation interviews and Visual Network Analysis with a 15‐year‐old Mongolian child living in Finland, the findings reveal that memory is not a fixed recollection of the past but a relational, non‐linear process enacted ...
Sinyoung Kim, Kristiina Kumpulainen
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the Linguistic Vitality of Miqie: An Endangered Ngwi (Loloish) Language of Yunnan, China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Language shift is the process by which a speech community in a contact situation gradually abandons one language in favor of another. Because the causal factors of language shift are largely social (Fishman 1991), languages, groups, and communities with ...
Gao, Katie B
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A review on true dung beetles' evolutionary and ecological responses to temperature and impacts on ecosystem functions

open access: yesEcological Entomology, EarlyView.
True dung beetles are a speciose group of ecosystem engineers that play key roles as detritivores in natural and agricultural landscapes. Scarabaeine beetles show strong thermal plasticity and there is increasing evidence of rapid evolutionary divergence in response to temperature across ecological and evolutionary timescales, with likely consequences ...
Nathan J. McConnell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Building a Potemkin village in occupied China: Japan's wartime system of linked trade, 1939–43

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The paper discusses the novel but little‐known exchange rate system of Japanese‐occupied North China during the Second Sino‐Japanese War, in which exporters were given the right to import in the form of a piece of yellow paper, which could be sold in the secondary market.
Shinji Takagi
wiley   +1 more source

Morpho-lexical evidence for Proto-Korean-Japanese [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The hypothesis that Japanese and Korean share a common linguistic origin remains highly controversial, with detractors such as Vovin (2010) criticizing a lack of shared functional morphemes and phonological problems in proposed cognate vocabulary ...
Francis-Ratté, Alexander
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Genomic insights into the genetic structure and population history of Mongolians in Liaoning Province. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Genet, 2022
Hou X   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

How do typology and proficiency affect cross-linguistic influence in three unrelated languages? A study on L1 Turkish learners, with L2 English, in the acquisition of L3 Spanish as a foreign language. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Màster de Lingüística Aplicada i Adquisició de Llengües en Contextos Multilingües, Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya, Universitat de Barcelona, Curs: 2015, Tutora: Maria Luz CelayaThe present paper reports the findings on the effect of typology
Case, Kendra
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THE NAITŌ HYPOSTASIS: NAITŌ KONAN (1866–1934) AND THE JAPANESE IMPERIALIST LEGACY IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MIDDLE‐PERIOD CHINA (800–1400 CE)

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, Hisayuki Miyakawa published an article that sought to introduce American and European scholars to the work of the Japanese Sinologist Naitō Konan (1866–1934). Miyakawa drew particular attention to what he called the “Naitō hypothesis”—that is, Naitō’s argument that China became modern during the Song dynasty (960–1279).
CHRISTIAN DE PEE
wiley   +1 more source

Leaders' Functional Specialization and Responses to Institutional Shifts during Crises: Evidence from the Pandemic

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Prior studies on crisis management often highlight the adaptiveness of generalist leaders, whose diverse functional experiences allow for flexible and innovative responses. However, we propose that in situations where crises lead to abrupt shifts in dominant institutional pressures, leaders with specialized functional backgrounds potentially ...
Yidi Guo, Danqing Wang, Shuo Chen
wiley   +1 more source

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