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A GEOGRAPHY OF ILLICIT CROPS (COCA LEAF) AND ARMED CONFLICT IN COLOMBIA [PDF]
Colombia is currently the world´s largest producer of coca leaf and the principal producer of opium poppies in the Americas; the plants are the basic raw materials used to produce cocaine and heroin.
Ana MaríaDíaz, FabioSánchez
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Word Predictability as a Measure of Second Language Proficiency
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This study introduces predictabilityBERT, a novel metric for assessing second language (L2) proficiency based on the predictability of word choices in learner language production. Using BERT (Devlin et al., 2019), we calculated the conditional probability of each word in a text given its surrounding context.
Langdon Holmes +3 more
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All in the family: Kidney donation in aging Japan
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the ethical and cultural logics shaping living donor kidney transplantation in Japan, where donation is restricted to kin and deceased donation remains rare. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Tokyo‐area hospital, it analyzes how Japan's kin‐based transplantation regime contrasts with the utilitarian model dominant in
Amy Borovoy
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Coca-Cola Clock (full front view)
, 2019 Full front view of Coca-Cola advertising icon.
Coca-Cola Company
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Advanced Recital: Kerry N. Jones and Sara F. Epple, composition
, 2008 This recital is given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Music degreeMs. Epple and Mr. Jones are students of Ellsworth Milburn.Episodes for Solo Piano, Kerry Jones (b. 1959) -- Point-of-Departure, Sara Epple (b.
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Is There a Sociology of Suicide?
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A sociology of suicide plainly exists in a historical sense. Since Durkheim, sociologists have ssshown that suicide varies with integration, regulation, inequality, relational embeddedness, institutional arrangements, and cultural repertoires of meaning.
Enrique Fernández‐Vilas +2 more
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Coca-Cola Clock (full rear view)
, 2019 Full back view of Coca-Cola advertising icon.
Coca-Cola Company
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Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates regional variation in Superlative Objoid constructions (SOCs) and their prepositional variant (at‐SOCs). SOCs combine a possessive pronoun with a superlative adjective. These function as manner‐degree modifiers in a context where the possessive is in postverbal position and correlative with the subject, as in they tried
Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt
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Pouring rights contracts between universities and beverage companies: Provisions related to scientific research. [PDF]
Prev Med Rep, 2022 Benjamin-Neelon SE +5 more
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Sir and Guys in 20th‐ and 21st‐Century American English
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the diachronic development of formal and informal address and reference terms in American English as an effect of democratization using the COHA corpus (1900–2020). In focus are two address/reference terms with especially drastic frequency trends in the timespan investigated: the honorific sir, which declines sharply from ...
Hanna Bruns, Svenja Kranich
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