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Robotic mowing technology in turfgrass management: Past, present, and future

open access: yesCrop Science, Volume 65, Issue 3, May/June 2025.
Abstract Robotic mowing equipment has rapidly increased in availability worldwide, but the first developed concepts for automating the mowing process are nearly 100 years old. The first attempt to commercialize a robotic mower was in the 1950s, with continued attempts to launch commercial products over subsequent decades.
J. Scott McElroy   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Illustrating the dragon in Tolkien’s Hobbit: artistic agency and the reader’s reception [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
[version française ci-dessous] This article is written for specialists of Tolkien’s texts but not necessarily of its illustrations. It is meant to be published in journals such as Mythlore, Tolkien Studies or the Journal of Tolkien research, exploring ...
Marie Bretagnolle
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‘Let me see it through your eyes’: Teaching grammar‐for‐writing as imaginative embodiment

open access: yesLiteracy, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 242-255, May 2025.
Abstract Effective professional development (PD) in teaching writing involves supporting teachers' knowledge of the writer's craft, including their thinking processes, linguistic knowledge and practical strategies for teaching these. Grammar‐for‐writing approaches support teachers' knowledge of how grammar creates meaningful effects in writing.
Brett Healey
wiley   +1 more source

Bibliographic resources for guiding research on J.R.R. Tolkien [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to recommend print and electronic resources that will be useful in helping the student, scholar or thesis writer who wants to begin an in-depth literature search for criticism of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Listings
Janet Brennan Croft
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J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) : bases des oeuvres de Tolkien : son art et ses sources [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
In all his works, and in particular in the lord of the rings, the fantasy world created by Tolkien reflects his philosophy of art. The first part of the thesis seeks to analyze this philosophy of art, of which the kernel is "sub-creation»: parallel to ...
O'Brien, Roderick
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Quenya is Practically a Main Character

open access: yesRiCognizioni
In the last forty years, fan fictions, derivative writings openly based on published works of fiction, have gone from being shared on semi-secretive zines circulating between a handful of people, to being hosted on public online archives, such as ...
Gloria Comandini, Francesco Dedè
doaj   +2 more sources

Dragons for Tolkien and Lewis [PDF]

open access: yes, 1984
Discusses the revival of dragons in fantasy after a long hiatus (perhaps spurred by Victorian studies of dinosaur fossils), which both influenced and was further refined by Tolkien and Lewis, with a brief look at dragons in fantasy since their ...
Berman, Ruth
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NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE MEDIATED BY MANNER OF MOTION VERBS

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Umanistice, 2016
There is typological variation in the way languages encode manner as an element of a motion event. Languages like English view it as relevant, and the lexicalization of the variety of ways to move results in a rich class of motion verbs, contrary to ...
Olesea BODEAN-VOZIAN
doaj  

J.R.R. Tolkien and Old English Studies: An Appreciation [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Some scholars argue that Tolkien did not fulfil some of his responsibilities during his thirty- four years as an Oxford Professor, in that he spent the bulk of his research time on his imaginative writings, thereby depriving scholarship of valuable works
Mitchell, Bruce
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Tolkien\u27s Work on the Oxford English Dictionary: Some New Evidence From Quotation Slips [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This article presents previously undiscussed material, in the form of citation slips, relating to Tolkien’s work on the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
Fletcher, Rachel A.
core   +1 more source

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