Results 171 to 180 of about 143,296 (334)

Islamic Environmentalism and Epistemic Waste

open access: yesJournal of Religious Ethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental ethics is concerned with how humans use and relate to the environment, including its conservation and protection. In recent decades, works on Islamic environmentalism have increased multiplied with efforts to ground an ethics based on the resources of the Islamic scholarly tradition.
Aysenur Cam
wiley   +1 more source

Indexing Power Through Self‐Reference: Electoral Margins and the Use of Běnxí Among Taiwanese Parliamentarians

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how Taiwanese members of parliament (MPs) deploy self‐referring expressions—specifically, the formal first‐person singular běnxí—to negotiate their institutional standing and project political power. By operationalizing access to objective power using the margin of victory (MoV) as one possible proxy, the research shows ...
Tsung‐Lun Alan Wan
wiley   +1 more source

Long‐Term Visual Gist Abstraction Independent of Post‐Encoding Sleep

open access: yesJournal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Current theories of memory processing postulate a slow transformation from episodic to abstract, gist‐like memories. We previously demonstrated that sleep shortly after learning improves gist abstraction in healthy volunteers across a one‐year retention interval using a visual version of the Deese‐Roediger‐McDermott (DRM) paradigm.
Nicolas D. Lutz   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Lexical Frequency in Predictive Processing: Higher Frequency Boosts First Language Speed and Facilitates Second Language Prediction

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores how word frequency affects verb‐mediated prediction in L1 and L2 speakers, using a visual‐world eye‐tracking task. By manipulating frequency of nouns within subjects (higher; lower) and type of verbs used as predictive cues (semantically restrictive; neutral) in sentences (e.g., The {doctor/surgeon} {opened/moved} the box),
Haerim Hwang, Kitaek Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy