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Flying riddles

open access: yesPrimitive Tider, 2023
Flying riddles Disentangeling animal style elements on Merovingian-periode bird ...
Ingunn M. Røstad
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Kinship Riddles

open access: yesGenealogy, 2022
In the medieval to early modern eras, legal manuals used visual cues to help teach the church laws of consanguinity and affinity as well as concepts of inheritance.
Lyndan Warner
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LITERARY RIDDLES IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

open access: yesИзвестия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки
The article deals with literary riddles and their role in the educational process. Currently, in the teaching methodology, the questions of working on a folk riddle are most fully developed, while the methodology of working on a literary riddle is ...
Aida R. Gasharova
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Solving stumpers, CRT and CRAT: Are the abilities related?

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2019
Bar-Hillel, Noah and Frederick (2018) studied a class of riddles they called stumpers, which have simple, but curiously elusive, solutions. A canonical example is: “Andy is Bobbie’s brother, but Bobbie is not Andy’s brother.
Maya Bar-Hillel   +2 more
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Peculiarities of a riddle genre in Karachay-Balkarian folklore

open access: yesКавказология, 2022
This article is devoted to revealing the traits of origin, development, existence of riddle as a genre of Karachay-Balkarian folklore, identification of its principal specific features. It is observed that, having arisen based on sacred texts in a secret
Zhauhar M. Lokyaeva
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Jeux littéraires et performances poétiques dans les Dialogues de Cassiciacum d’Augustin

open access: yesPallas, 2020
The three philosophical Dialogues known as Augustine’s Cassiciacum Dialogues (386 AD) deal with three major issues: the possibility of knowledge, happiness and world order. Those Early Dialogues between Augustine, disciples and relatives, set up a number
Anne-Isabelle Bouton-Touboulic
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Ability to solve riddles in patients with speech and language impairments after stroke [PDF]

open access: yesSrpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2016
Introduction. Successful riddle solving requires recognition of the meaning of words, attention, concentration, memory, connectivity and analysis of riddle content, and sufficiently developed associative thinking. Objective. The aim of the study
Savić Goran
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C2α‐carbanion‐protonating glutamate discloses tradeoffs between substrate accommodation and reaction rate in actinobacterial 2‐hydroxyacyl‐CoA lyase

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Enzymes of the 2‐hydroxyacyl‐CoA lyase group catalyze the condensation of formyl‐CoA with aldehydes or ketones. Thus, by structural adaptation of active sites, practically any pharmaceutically and industrially important 2‐hydroxyacid could be biotechnologically synthesized. Combining crystal structure analysis, active site mutations and kinetic assays,
Michael Zahn   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decoding the Mind: A Relevance-Theoretic Approach to selected English Riddles

open access: yesZanco Journal of Humanity Sciences
  Riddles, as universal form of wordplay, challenge solvers via metaphor, polysemy, and wordplay, requiring inferential reasoning. This paper explores English oppositional riddles from the framework of Relevance Theory distinguished by paradox ...
Shara Nmrood Mlkazdin   +1 more
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