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A Motif of Parrots in Dionysian Contexts on Selected Examples of Hellenistic and Roman Mosaics
Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2023 This paper provides an overview of the mosaics in which parrots are represented as a motive accompanying Dionysian themes. Based on the written and iconographic sources, the author argues that a parrot was an intrinsic element of the visual language ...
Anna Głowa
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Journal of Biogeography, Volume 52, Issue 12, December 2025.ABSTRACT Aim The role of historical drainage connectivity and the influence of water level fluctuations in African lakes on the evolution and distribution of macroinvertebrates remain poorly understood. This is partly because evolutionary biology research has largely focused on mobile vertebrates, such as cichlids.
Marie Claire Dusabe +6 more
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Aquaculture, Fish and Fisheries, Volume 5, Issue 4, August 2025.ABSTRACT Cage fish farming, a recent development in aquaculture, has enhanced fisheries production due to its higher stocking densities than traditional pond and open‐water systems. Although it can enhance production, the system can pose biodiversity threats when there is an unintentional or intentional release of stocked fish into the wild.
Gerald Kwikiriza +10 more
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Studies in African Linguistics, 1996 This paper analyzes the [ATR] harmony system of Turkana (Eastern Nilotic). The principal claim made in this paper is that Turkana provides evidence for an underlying ternary contrast in the feature [ATR].
Manuela Noske
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Studies in African Linguistics, 1999 This article presents an analysis of a particular passive-like syntactic construction in Dholuo, a Nilotic language spoken in parts of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. While the construction analyzed resembles the passive construction in English in which the
Eunita D. Ochola
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2020 The tonal system of Nuer has been a matter of much uncertainty. Here we present empirical evidence in favor of a three toneme system with some typologically rare features. One of them is an intriguing case of allotony based on the phonation of the vowel:
Irina Monich
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Consonant harmony in Nilotic: contrastive specifications and Stratal OT
Glossa, 2016 Through analyses of dental harmony in four Nilotic languages, this paper argues both for contrastive representations and for a stratal version of Optimality Theory.
Sara Mackenzie
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue S1, Page 73-90, April 2025.In the Ik mountains in Uganda, only few old people still have the skills to ‘see time’ with sundials. Common ways of knowing time and age now include phones and ID cards in digital registers. I follow the elder seer Komol to explore how changing the measures of time influences the experience of time and age. How do being a ‘time being’ and ideas about ‘
Lotte Meinert
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A Mosaic of the Book of Daniel in the Ya῾amun Church
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2011 A mosaic in a late antique church in Jordan offers images from the Old Testament, including a Nilotic scene and a portrait of Daniel and his three brothers.
Nizar Turshan, Mohammad Nassar
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Patterns of grammaticalization in African languages [PDF]
, 1982 The approach outlined in the present paper is based on observations made with African languages. Although the 1000-odd African languages display a remarkable extent of structural variation, there are certain structures that do not seem to occur in Africa.
Heine, Bernd, Reh, Mechthild
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