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PLoS Biology, 2006 The tiny hominid bones, which a joint Australian-Indonesian team unearthed in 2003 on the Indonesian island of Flores, have quickly become as celebrated (and derided) as any find in the tempestuous history of human paleontology.
Tabitha M Powledge
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The Hob Proteins: Putative, Novel Lipid Transfer Proteins at ER-PM Contact Sites [PDF]
Contact, 2021 Nonvesicular transfer of lipids at membrane contact sites (MCS) has recently emerged as a critical process for cellular function. Lipid transfer proteins (LTPs) mediate this unique transport mechanism, and although several LTPs are known, the cellular ...
Sarah D. Neuman +2 more
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Wymysorys revitalisation theatre: identity and community (re)building [PDF]
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThe small town of Wilamowice in southwestern Poland is home to the ethnic group of Vilamovians who speak their own endangered language: Wymysiöeryś. Amateur theatre created by the troupe Ufa fisa has been one of the most important and outwardly visible ...
Justyna Majerska-Sznajder +2 more
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'The Hobbit Dispute': Organizing Through Transnational Alliances
Global Labour Journal, 2014 It is now seen as a common sense strategy for trade unions to organise at a transnational level, in order to attempt to counter the global nature of capital in the neo-liberal political economy. Events surrounding the controversy over the location of the
Carol Jess
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Three Versions of "The Hobbit": Strategies of Authentication and their Translation into Romanian
Linguaculture, 2022 A classic such as The Hobbit has occasioned three published versions in Romanian, which raises the question of progress in retranslation. Inspired by Kruger’s proposal that narratological translation shifts do occur in translation, we intend to check ...
Nadina Visan
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Movie-Induced Tourism: New Zealand and the UK, an EEG case study
Dos Algarves, 2022 This study on film tourism aims to evaluate the impact of films on the attractiveness of tourist destinations, namely on the intention of spectators to visit, leading to the following research question: Which film/country arises the greatest interest in ...
Isa Neves, Nuno Almeida
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The hobbit — an unexpected deficiency [PDF]
Medical Journal of Australia, 2013 Vitamin D has been proposed to have beneficial effects in a wide range of contexts. We investigate the hypothesis that vitamin D deficiency, caused by both aversion to sunlight and unwholesome diet, could also be a significant contributor to the triumph of good over evil in fantasy literature.Data on the dietary habits, moral attributes and martial ...
Joseph A, Hopkinson +1 more
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Autore contro lettore, riddler contro riddlee, criminale contro detective
Polythesis, 2022 This work intends to investigate different ways of managing knowledge in the modern, ancient and postmodern era through the analysis of three riddle contests. In the first case, we will reflect on the relationship between author and reader starting from
Aldo Baratta
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Hobbit’s song from “The Lord of the Rings” by J. R. R. Tolkien (“Farewell we call to hearth and home”): between cultures and traditions [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. ФилологияThe works by J. R. R. Tolkien make a constant appeal to the researchers in various fields. However, Tolkien’s verses (escecially inserted in his prose fiction) are seldom analysed with due consideration of their individual poetic features together with ...
Vladimir Afanasev
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Mutations in wheat leading to enhanced resistance to the fungal pathogen of yellow rust
Plant Protection Science, 2002 The isolation and study of plant resistance genes is revealing a story more complicated than the gene-for-gene hypothesis originally implied. The story of resistance is complicated even further by the discovery of genes that appear to have a negative ...
L.A. Boyd +4 more
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