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Assembly democracy between social selectivity and equality
Swiss Political Science Review, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 817-832, December 2025.Abstract In most Swiss municipalities and two cantons, voting means attending a public assembly rather than casting a ballot. This article investigates the extent to which participation in such assemblies is shaped by different patterns of social selectivity compared to ballot voting.
Hans‐Peter Schaub, Philippe E. Rochat
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The Use of Simile in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2017 Figures of speech are imaginative tools in both literature and ordinary communication used for explaining speech beyond its usual usage. Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) – the only novel written by this writer - differs from many other literary ...
Jemma Militonyan
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STYLISTIC IN JAVANESE URBAN LEGEND STORIES: A CASE STUDY IN RUBRIC ALAMING LELEMBUT IN PANJEBAR SEMANGAT MAGAZINE [PDF]
, 2011 Folklore as a part of literature has an important role in society. As the interpretation of culture in the society, folklore is called by the culture of idea.
V. Widya , Suryaningtyas
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Semantic representation of similes (based on the Ukrainian, English and Polish languages).
Topics in Linguistics, 2018 Since simile in this paper is understood as a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared and not only as a construction corresponding to the formula X is like Y, the borderline between the semasiological (from form to content ...
Oleniak Mariana
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What is an elementary particle? [PDF]
, 1950 Schrödinger discusses what an elementary particle is.
Schrödinger, Erwin
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New Disease Reports, Volume 53, Issue 1, January/March 2026.
Maria A. Lugo‐Duque +5 more
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Acehnese adolescents’ awareness of Acehnese idiom and simile
Studies in English Language and Education, 2019 Acehnese language is rich in its figurative languages such as in forms of idioms and similes. Acehnese people have been magnifying the idioms and similes over decades to soften utterances, and they are inherited from generation to generation ...
Ida Muliawati +2 more
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The Other Half of the Ass: A Manifesto for Anthropology in Neo‐Illiberal Times
Economic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.
Holly High
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FAC-SÍMILE RESEARCH ON THE HISTORY OF MIDWIFERY: INAUGURATION OF THE CHAPEL OF THE PRÓ-MATRE (1923)
Revista de Pesquisa Cuidado é Fundamental Online, 2010 Estudo na perspectiva da histórica semiótica, com o objeto de estudo o ensaio analítico de um fac-símile, veiculado na Revista da Semana, sobre a inauguração da Capela do Hospital Maternidade Pró-Matre, situada no Rio de Janeiro, em 1923.
Elaine Franco Ribeiro Fonseca +1 more
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Innovations of Simile-Based Images in Vassâf History [PDF]
متن شناسی ادب فارسی, 2011 Simile is one of the most prominent elements of dream making in Vassâf history. In this work, Vassâf tries to use figurative elements, especially simile, to make a poetic prose.
Z Ekhtiyari, M Mahmoodi
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