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Tracking the ancestral Portuguese name of the osprey across the Atlantic: hints from language, literature, history and geography

open access: yesArquivos de Zoologia, 2017
Guincho, the traditional Portuguese name of the osprey (Pandion haliaetus) is unique and ancestral. It is found in several sorts of fictional literature from the 16th up to the early 20th centuries in the form of a metaphor born from an old popular ...
Luís Manuel Palma
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Interpretative challenges in face analysis

open access: yesTextos en Proceso, 2015
In current research on face analysis questions of who and what should be interpreted, as well as how, are of central interest. In English language research, this question has led to a debate on the concepts of P1 (laypersons, representing the “emic ...
Sandi Michele de Oliveira   +1 more
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Systematic reviews of epidemiology in diabetes: finding the evidence

open access: yesBMC Medical Research Methodology, 2005
Background Methodological research to support searching for those doing systematic reviews of epidemiological studies is a relatively neglected area. Our aim was to determine how many databases it is necessary to search to ensure a comprehensive coverage
Waugh Norman, Bain Lynda, Royle Pamela
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The Latin American Social Medicine database

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2004
Background Public health practitioners and researchers for many years have been attempting to understand more clearly the links between social conditions and the health of populations.
Wiley Kevin   +6 more
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The determinants of Spanish language proficiency among immigrants in Spain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey (Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes-ENI in Spanish) carried out in 2007 among immigrants in Spain. In recent years, Spain has received unprecedented immigration flows.
Budría, Santiago, Swedberg, Pablo
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A Golden Age of Translation (1540-1570)

open access: yes, 2021
The central decades of the 16th century played a foundational role in the historical process of literature in the Spanish language. Between 1543 and 1559 appeared, for example, the first printing of the works of Boscán and Garcilaso, the Cancionero de romances by the Flemish printer Martín Nucio, the Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes, and La Diana by Jorge ...
openaire   +1 more source

Requests of Brown from other HELIN libraries - January 2012 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Requests of Brown from other HELIN libraries - January ...
Souto, Ruth E..
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Using Portfolios to Develop L2 Cultural Knowledge and Awareness of Students in Intermediate Spanish [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
In spite of many efforts and contributions from previous researchers, the need for a systematic and consistent approach to teaching culture is still unmet. This pilot study shows that the portfolio is a meaningful way to integrate language and culture in
Lee, Lina
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Phonetic drift [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This chapter provides an overview of research on the phonetic changes that occur in one’s native language (L1) due to recent experience in another language (L2), a phenomenon known as phonetic drift.
Chang, Charles B.
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Hypothesis Testing based Intrinsic Evaluation of Word Embeddings

open access: yes, 2017
We introduce the cross-match test - an exact, distribution free, high-dimensional hypothesis test as an intrinsic evaluation metric for word embeddings.
Gurnani, Nishant
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