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The Devil's Colors: A Comparative Study of French and Nigerian Folktales [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This study, largely based on five separate published collections, compares French and Nigerian folktales - focusing mainly on French Dauphine and Nigerian Igboland - to consider the role color plays in encounters with supernatural characters from diverse
Ugochukwu, Francoise
core   +3 more sources

Multidimensional Scaling of the Cognitive Assessment System‐Second Edition: Implications for the Structural Validity of PASS Theory and Its Application in School Psychology

open access: yesPsychology in the Schools, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study applied multidimensional scaling (MDS) to the Cognitive Assessment System‐Second Edition (CAS2) to investigate the structural validity of PASS theory (Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, Successive) across two age groups (5−7, 8−18 years) in the normative sample (N = 1342).
Ryan J. McGill
wiley   +1 more source

Repositories of biocultural diversity: Toward best practices for empowering ethnobotany in digital herbaria

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Societal Impact Statement As herbaria digitize millions of plant specimens, ethnobotanical information associated with them is becoming increasingly accessible. These biocultural data include plant uses, names, and/or management practices of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs).
Robbie Hart   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religion, religious fervour, and universalist education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper is conceived from a secular perspective, and designed to address three elements identified in the call for papers: “Pluralistic tendencies”, their counterpart of “exclusivist attitudes”, and “creating an ethos of inter-religious harmony”.
Gal-Or, Noemi
core  

Translation and Semantic Shift of Islamic Vocabulary in English Abstracts: A Corpus-Based Study at an Indonesian Islamic University

open access: yesLangkawi: Journal of The Association for Arabic and English
Incorporating Nation’s vocabulary classification, this study investigates the translation and semantic shifts of Islam-related vocabulary in the abstracts of undergraduate and postgraduate theses.
Misbahuddin Jamal, Srifani Simbuka
doaj   +1 more source

Connecting tradition and technology: The digitization of the ethnobotanical collection at the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The digitization of RBetno (JBRJ) represents a step forward for biodiversity conservation in Brazil. Aligned with the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (Target 2, 2020–2030), this project documents the use of plants, including traditional knowledge and vernacular names, with a focus on the Atlantic Forest and Amazon.
Viviane S. Fonseca‐Kruel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

ВЕРБАЛІЗАЦІЯ КОНЦЕПТОСФЕРИ «РЕЛІГІЯ» В ЕПІСТОЛЯРНОМУ ДИСКУРСІ ТАРАСА ШЕВЧЕНКА (The verbalization of the concept sphere “religion” in Taras Shevchenko epistolary discourse) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
У статті викладені результати дослідження вербалізації релігійних концептів в епістолярії Т. Шевченка. Спираючись на листи поета, автор статті доводить, що Т.
Піддубна, Н. (N. Piddubna)
core  

The Cinderella tree, Quillaja saponaria – A soap story

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Our current understanding of plants has been shaped by the entwining of different cultures. The Chilean soapbark tree, traditionally valued as a source of natural soap, was shown by serendipitous research in France in the 1900s to produce compounds that can boost the immune response to vaccines.
Anne Osbourn
wiley   +1 more source

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