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Le motif « vieille » dans la toponymie de l’aire celtique

open access: yesLa Bretagne Linguistique, 2017
The ‘hag’ linguistic motif is omnipresent in toponymy, oral literature and lexical semantics. Research has highlighted concordances between different cultural and linguistic areas, notably through the development of a method for researching and ...
Lee Fossard
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L’assassinat d’un prêtre en Trégor au XVIIe siècle

open access: yesLa Bretagne Linguistique, 2020
It is common knowledge that Breton folk songs, called gwerzioù, tell a true or supposedly true story. Passed down through the generations by word of mouth, some have enjoyed a lengthy run in the Breton oral tradition.
Daniel Giraudon
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Talking in class : new entrant teachers' beliefs about oral language : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education (Special Education), Massey University [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
While oral or spoken language is a primary medium for teaching and classroom communication, there is an absence of literature that relates to the beliefs teachers have about oral language.
McDonald, Shona
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Dietary nitrate and nitrite protect against doxorubicin‐induced cardiac fibrosis and oxidative protein damage in tumor‐bearing mice

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Chemotherapies such as doxorubicin can have toxic effects on healthy cardiovascular/heart tissue. Following up on a doxorubicin toxicity study in mice without tumors where nitrate water was cardioprotective (lessened toxicity), this study with tumor‐bearing mice undergoing doxorubicin treatment showed no negative effect of nitrate and nitrite on drug ...
Rama D. Yammani   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relations between humans and non-humans in Amazigh North African oral literature

open access: yesTydskrif vir Letterkunde
In this article, I examine the representation of environmental issues in Amazigh narratives. I focus on texts that address the relationships between humans, society, the environment, and colonial greed.
Anna Maria di Tolla
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A Hunting Account [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
O rgyan dban phyugs provides a personal account of huntingThis collection of 77 audio files focuses on weddings and weddings speeches but also contains: folk tales, folk songs, riddles, tongue twisters, and local history from Bang smad Village and Ri sne
Bkra shis bzang po
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Diabetes‐induced vascular calcification is associated with low pyrophosphate and its oral supplementation prevents calcification in diabetic mice

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Induction of diabetes in three different mouse strains uniformly resulted in an increase in TNAP activity and a reduction in pyrophosphate (PPi) in the circulation. Inhibition of TNAP restored plasma PPi. Diabetes‐induced calcification in the media layer of the aorta was detected only in the Abcc6−/− strain, which is predisposed to ectopic ...
Krisztina Fülöp   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Folk Song [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Zher lo sings a song normally sung at parties, picnics, and singing competitions.The fifty one audio and nine video files in this collection include: villages’ life stories, circle-dancing songs and performance, local history, folk tales, and interviews
G.yu lha
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Impact of a senior research thesis on students' perceptions of scientific inquiry in distinct student populations

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
This study addressed how a senior research thesis is perceived by undergraduate students. It assessed students' perception of research skills, epistemological beliefs, and career goals in Biochemistry (science) and BDC (science‐business) students. Completing a thesis improved confidence in research skills, resilience, scientific identity, closed gender‐
Celeste Suart   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Beckoning Silence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Mark Turin has agreed with the copyright holder the right to host a copy of this piece (whether audio, text or video) on University of Cambridge archives and servers.An article in the Independent on Sunday on the World Oral Literature ...
Paul, Bignell
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