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This article examines, through a historical and aesthetic approach, the relationship between art and politics in the 1970’s in the island of Dominica. During this period, the Caribbean islands were in search of identity.
Marvin Fabien
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Switchgrass holds significant potential as a bioenergy crop, with its bioenergy traits exhibiting quantitative inheritance. This study employed quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping to localize genetic variations in these traits, estimated using near‐infrared spectroscopy (NIRS).
Surya L. Shrestha +5 more
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Rastafari is an Afro-Jamaican religious and social movement, which has since the 1970s spread outside of the Caribbean mainly through reggae music. This paper contributes to the academic discussion on the localization processes of Rastafari and reggae ...
Tuomas Järvenpää
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Same data, different results? Machine learning approaches in bioacoustics
Abstract Automated acoustic analysis is increasingly used in behavioural ecology, and determining caller identity is a key element for many investigations. However, variability in feature extraction and classification methods limits the comparability of results across species and studies, constraining conclusions we can draw about the ecology and ...
Kaja Wierucka +12 more
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The British Museum and the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–8
Abstract In 1867–8, the British Museum sent a staff member on the Abyssinian Campaign. Richard Holmes, an assistant in the Manuscript Department, was embedded in the military invasion and looted important and sacred objects and manuscripts from the fortress of Emperor Tewodros II at Maqdala.
ZOE CORMACK
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THE INFLUENCE OF AFRICAN CULTURE ON THE FORMATION OF SUBCULTURAL IDENTITY OF MODERN RASTAFARIAN
The research deals with youth movements as the means of personal self-identification of young people, which is the most effective way to study subcultures.
Эльвира Ринатовна Гатиатуллина
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Abstract To support children's engagement with reading material, it is important children are represented in reading material provided. As Parents are the curators of their child's reading diet, in this study the parental perspectives of the ethnic diversity of available reading material for their children was explored.
Mary A. Scorer, Emma J. Vardy
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ABSTRACT Large and highly repetitive genomes are common. However, research interests usually lie within the non‐repetitive parts of the genome, as they are more likely functional, and can be used to answer questions related to adaptation, selection and evolutionary history.
Robert Kesälahti +9 more
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Understanding a modern antique: challenges to representing Rastafari in the twenty-first century
Drawing increasingly upon digital technologies and the internet to assert a sense of community even as they cultivate an austere biblical persona, adherents of Rastafari can be thought of as simultaneously modern and antique.
John P. Homiak
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Reggae, identité et paysage urbain dans un bidonville de Kingston-ouest
This paper looks into place's multidimensionality through the example of a western Kingston's slum. Reading the urban – or more accurately proto-urban – landscape of the peculiar Trenchtown's community allows us to reveal the place's politics, culture ...
Romain Cruse, Kevon Rhiney
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