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J.R.R. Tolkien’s Portrayal of Femininity and Its Transformations in Subsequent Adaptations
Crossroads, 2015 The aim of the following paper is to examine the portrayal of female characters and femininity in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Weronika Łaszkiewicz
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Brain and Behavior, Volume 15, Issue 8, August 2025.How do we accurately measure mind wandering? This review compares five methods: from self‐reports (prone to bias) to brain scans (precise but expensive). No single method captures all aspects, so we propose the MAMW framework—a unified approach combining strengths of each technique.
Sholeh Nazari +2 more
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Konteksty Pedagogiczne, 2018 This article focuses on the dragon character in literature, taking Tol-kien’s Hobbit as an example while employing a pedagogical perspective. The dra-gon, as the antagonist, is a recurring motif in literary fiction, especially in fantasy, and together ...
Anna Hyla
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Screen Tourism: Worlds Within the Screen, Moving the Economy
International Journal of Tourism Research, Volume 27, Issue 4, July/August 2025.ABSTRACT The number of tourists traveling to attractions and destinations they had seen on screen continues to increase. Screen tourism is a marketing tool that encourages tourism demand as well as promotes economic development, with governments and destination marketing organizations attracting tourists through conventional and digital media. However,
Yunkyoung Jo +3 more
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Communicative dynamism and prosodic prominence in presentation sentences with initial rhematic subjects [PDF]
Linguistica Pragensia, 2017 Within the framework of the theory of functional sentence perspective (Firbas 1992), the distinction between presentation and quality scale sentences plays a vital role.
Martin Adam +1 more
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Grasping Objects From the Floor in Assistive Robotics: Real World Implications and Lessons Learned
IEEE Access, 2019 This paper presents a system enabling a mobile robot to autonomously pick-up objects a human is pointing at from the floor. The system does not require object models and is designed to grasp unknown objects.
Paloma De La Puente +4 more
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Neurodegenerative and Neurodevelopmental Roles for Bulk Lipid Transporters VPS13A and BLTP2
Movement Disorders, Volume 40, Issue 7, Page 1356-1368, July 2025.Abstract Background Bridge‐like lipid transfer proteins (BLTPs) mediate bulk lipid transport at membrane contact sites. Mutations in BLTPs are linked to both early‐onset neurodevelopmental and later‐onset neurodegenerative diseases, including movement disorders.
Sarah D. Neuman +4 more
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The Hobbit in prose and comics: exploring intersemiotic relations
Estudos SemióticosThis paper investigates the intersemiotic relations between J.R.R. Tolkien's prose novel The Hobbit (1937) and the homonym graphic novel by David Wenzel and Charles Dixon (1990).
Caio Henrique Medeiros Sousa +2 more
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There and there again: Hydrothermal vent communities at Mokuyo Seamount, 30 years apart
Ecological Research, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 389-402, July 2025.Revisiting the little‐known deep‐sea hydrothermal vent field on Mokuyo Seamount, Izu‐Ogasawara Arc 30 years apart revealed decadal changes in venting activity and faunal distributions. We also update the species list of chemosynthetic ecosystem at Mokuyo from three to 18, a key baseline data for the management of this ecologically significant site ...
Chong Chen +4 more
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