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Investigating the Dust Deposition on Some Physiological Characteristics of Soybean [PDF]

open access: yesAgrotechniques in Industrial Crops, 2023
Dust from cement factories and sand crushers can cause stress by depositing on the leaves. Accordingly, in areas that are often exposed to such problems, it is important to investigate its effect on plant growth and physiology.
Sharife Habibpour   +3 more
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Understanding the hobbit: the cross-national and cross-linguistic reception of a global media product in Belgium, France and the Netherlands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The Hobbit franchise, as many global media products, reaches audiences worldwide. Audience members apparently consume a uniform media product. But do they?
Biltereyst, Daniël   +4 more
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ФОРМИРОВАНИЕ ИНТЕРЕСА К ЧТЕНИЮ У УЧАЩИХСЯ 5-Х КЛАССОВ (УРОКИ ПО ТВОРЧЕСТВУ ДЖ. Р. Р. ТОЛКИНА)

open access: yesCifra: Педагогика
В статье представлены результаты экспериментальных уроков, посвящённых творчеству английского филолога и писателя Джона Рональда Руэла Толкина, которые были проведены автором статьи у учащихся двух 5-х классов МБОУ «Средняя общеобразовательная школа № 19»
Степанов В.А.
doaj   +1 more source

Le Hobbit, roman et adaptation cinématographique ou l’appropriation par un public adulte d’une fiction jeunesse

open access: yesStrenae, 2015
In recent decades, it would seem that, in parallel with the revaluation of fantasy literature for young adults, which is gradually gaining credibility through the success of series such as Harry Potter by J.K.
Catherine Magalhaes
doaj   +1 more source

Modulational Instability of Optical Vortices in Engineered Saturable Media

open access: yesEngineering, 2022
Propagation of light beams in turbid media such as underwater environments, fog, clouds, or biological tissues finds increasingly important applications in science and technology, including bio-imaging, underwater communication, and free-space ...
D.G. Pires, N.M. Litchinitser
doaj   +1 more source

“Hell, what a chance to have a go at the classics”: Tove Jansson’s take on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Hunting of the Snark, and The Hobbit

open access: yesBarnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning, 2014
: Tove Jansson is above all known as the creator of the Moomin world which includes novels, short stories, picture-books and comic strips. Between 1958 and 1966, however, she produced over a hundred illustrations offering a novel and idiosyncratic take ...
Olga Holownia
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Goblins, Greed, and Goodness: The Symbolic and Narrative Degradation of Goblins within The Hobbit [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Throughout The Hobbit, J.R.R Tolkien establishes a variety of races that range on a diverse scale of good and evil. Within this spectrum, Goblins are portrayed as being the most evil in comparison to every other race on Middle Earth. Tolkien utilizes a
Stine, Katelyn
core   +1 more source

The problem of free will is child's play

open access: yesPhilosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 147-154, April 2026.
Abstract I argue that the essence of ‘free will’ is control, the ability to do otherwise and that this ability is an acquired skill: We can and do see people acquire it, as for example small children learn to play and to do all the other things that human agents characteristically do.
Sophie‐Grace Chappell
wiley   +1 more source

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery on the Labour Rights of Incarcerated People: A Case Study of England and Wales

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 32-41, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article presents the 2024 Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, entitled ‘Contemporary Forms of Slavery as Affecting Currently and Formerly Incarcerated People’, and assesses the regime in England and Wales on the basis of the Rapporteur's recommendations.
Virginia Mantouvalou
wiley   +1 more source

Inspiracja radykalna, czyli wątki tolkienowskie w twórczości Varga Vikernesa

open access: yesCreatio Fantastica, 2018
In the article Radical Inspiration, or Tolkienian Threads in the Works of Varg Vikernes, Adam Podlewski draws a comparison between John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s and Varg Vikernes’ esthetical, theological, and civilisational world­view.
Adam Podlewski
doaj   +1 more source

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