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Towards reflexive land and water management in Iran : linking technology, governance and culture
, 2009 Key words: Qanat, land and water, sustainability, Industrial and reflexive modernity This PhD thesis is concerned with the causes and consequences of the environmental crisis and explores possible trajectories towards sustainable land and water ...
Balali, M.R.
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Impulsive consumption and reflexive thought: Nudging ethical consumer behavior
, 2014 The paper deals with impulsive consumption and highlights the roles that two aspects of reflexive thought (namely self-control and self-image motives) play in intertemporal decisions. While self-control can inhibit individuals from consuming impulsively,
Lades, Leonhard
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A frequentist explanation of some universals of reflexive marking
Linguistic Discovery, 2008 This paper identifies a number of empirically observable universals of reflexive marking that concern the existence of a special reflexive pronoun and the length of the marker that is used in reflexive constructions, in various different positions of the
Martin Haspelmath
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Reflexive law, corporate social responsibility and the evolution of labour standards: the case of working time [PDF]
Through an empirical study of working time in the United Kingdom, we explore the scope for initiatives based on corporate social responsibility (CSR) to engender voluntary action by employers to raise labour standards.
Catherine Barnard +2 more
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Exclusively reflexive verbs in Spanish: a study of its acquisition among English speaking students at university level [PDF]
, 2015 The aim of this paper is to analyze whether the syntactic and semantic behavior of the so called quasi-reflexive or mandatory reflexive verbs in Spanish such as enterarse, quejarse, burlarse, acordarse, fijarse or jactarse can be learned and assimilated ...
Terrón Barroso, Antonio; id_orcid +1 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Although the definition of a gout flare is well established, the state of gout flare resolution has not yet been defined. This study aimed to explore patients’ experiences and perceptions of gout flare resolution. Methods Semistructured interviews were conducted with 24 people with gout, guided by open‐ended questions exploring their ...
Sarah Stewart +5 more
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Retrieval Interference in Syntactic Processing: The Case of Reflexive Binding in English
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 It has been proposed that in online sentence comprehension the dependency between a reflexive pronoun such as himself/herself and its antecedent is resolved using exclusively syntactic constraints.
Umesh Patil +2 more
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Homeschooling as Reflexive Modernity
, 2008 Although still a substantial minority, there now exists a sizable and growing population of parents in the United States making the decision to educate their children themselves, in their own homes.
Kennedy, Earl
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.DNA strands are employed both as dynamic linkers and nanoscale templates for the integration of Ag2S nanoparticles on MoS2, which in turn imparted photothermal responsiveness; this feature permits the selective cargo (fluorophore, quantum dots or an enzyme) release from the MoS2 surface in response to local heat induced by light irradiation.
Kai Chen +3 more
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