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Raising Awareness about Water Issues: The Role of Water Symbolism and Proverbs

open access: yes, 2013
Sustainable water management is one of the global grand challenges of our time. Tackling this challenge through corrective actions would require the participation of the general public, a public with sound awareness of the challenge and commitment.
Araya, Yoseph Negusse, Sindik, Joško
core   +1 more source

Proverbs, Anti-Proverbs and Language Learning

open access: yesStudies in English Language Teaching, 2017
<p class="Abstract"><em>Proverbs express public wisdom and reflect public attitudes. In the traditional definition they are untouchable when it comes to form. Like other idiomatic expressions, they are learnt as whole, indivisible chunks. As such, they should be included in language classes, if a native-like mastery is to be achieved since ...
Mohammed Khalid Al-Ajlouny   +1 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Supercompliant Lattice Boosts n‐type AgSbTe2 Thermoelectrics

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The supercompliant lattice design enables the first realization of n‐type electrical transport in AgSbTe2 by overcoming intrinsic electron‐killer defects and exceeding the doping limits imposed by the conventional Hume–Rothery rule. Accordingly, the best performance n‐type Ag0.8Na0.3Sb0.6Bi0.4Te2 sample achieves a low κ of 0.27 W·m−1·K−1 that ...
Ruoyan Li   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

TIME IS MONEY

open access: yesProverbium, 2017
This article is an investigation of the origins and the dissemination of Time is money, which is commonly but erroneously attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
Damien Villers, Wolfgang Mieder
doaj  

Eye-Movement behavior identification for AD diagnosis [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2017
In the present work, we develop a deep-learning approach for differentiating the eye-movement behavior of people with neurodegenerative diseases over healthy control subjects during reading well-defined sentences. We define an information compaction of the eye-tracking data of subjects without and with probable Alzheimer's disease when reading a set of
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Transmembrane Activation of Catalysis and Protein Refolding in Synthetic Cells by Enzymes and Nanozymes

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Synthetic cells are engineered herein to respond to an external chemical messenger by the activation of intracellular catalysis. The chemical messenger molecules are catalytically generated by an extracellular enzyme or a mineral surface, whereas the intracellular catalysis emerges via direct enzyme activation or via protein refolding.
Dante G. Andersen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study of allegories and proverbs used in Kalim Kashani’s Divan [PDF]

open access: yesLiterary Arts, 2016
Poet laureate Mirza Aboutaleb Kalim Kashani so called "Kalim's Talebaei" which has been nominated "the second means creator", is one of the famous poets of 11th century. His lineage has been revealed from Hamadan by Hisrorians and they have told that due
Mohammad Mir, Mahdi Javanbakht
doaj  

Die Frau im Spiegel deutscher Sprichwörter [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper aims to demonstrate the proverb as a mental pattern that reflects and reinforces the values and norms of society through its use. We present the treatment given to women in German proverbs in opposition to the treatment given to men, showing ...
Glenk, Eva M. F.
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