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“Mirror, mirror…” A preliminary investigation of skin tone dissatisfaction and its impact among British adults [PDF]
, 2013 This study examined skin tone dissatisfaction, measured using a skin tone chart, among a multiethnic sample of British adults. A total of 648 British White individuals, 292 British South Asians, and 260 British African Caribbean participants completed a ...
Henry, A. +4 more
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A spin to preserve contrast: Taiwanese tone sandhi
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2020 Chain-shifts, particularly circular ones such as the tone sandhi of Taiwanese Min has been a longstanding challenge to which phonologists of various persuasions have attempted. This paper appeals to markedness against contour tones in non-final positions
Wee, Lian-Hee
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Journal of East Asian LinguisticsAbstractThis paper is a descriptive and analytic study of the tones and tone sandhi of the Southern Wu dialect of Lóngyóu (龙游), a city of c. 400,000 inhabitants located about 375 km southwest of Shanghai in Western Zhejiang Province, China. It is based on data collected in 2018 from two female native speakers.
Chen, Sherry Yong +1 more
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Design and analysis strategies for robust microbiome ageing research
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The gut microbiome changes with age and associates with age‐related morbidity and mortality, establishing it as a potential biomarker and intervention target for ageing. Realising this potential requires methodological rigour, yet distinguishing biological signals from methodological artefacts remains challenging across cohorts. This review provides an
Mark Olenik +5 more
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Aspects of Kono phonology [PDF]
, 1983 This work is a descriptive analysis of the Kono sound system. Kono is a Sierra Leonean language belonging to the Mande family of languages. The work is divided into two parts.
Manyeh, Morie Komba
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The borrowing of aspects as lexical tone classes Y-intial Tuareg verbs in Tasawaq
Studies in African Linguistics, 2007 In Tasawaq, a Northern Songhay language of Niger, there exists a lexical tone class distinction between stative and active verbs. This tone class distinction only exists in one class of verbs borrowed from Tuareg, verbs with an initial y-.
Maarten Kossmann
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The Roles of Segments and Tone in Mandarin Lexical Processing: An ERP Study
Journal of Integrative NeuroscienceBackgrounds: Segments and tone are important sub-syllabic units that play large roles in lexical processing in tonal languages. However, their roles in lexical processing remain unclear, and the event-related potential (ERP) technique will benefit the ...
Dan Du, Minghu Jiang
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Reconstructing enzyme evolution by protein engineering
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Natural enzyme evolution can be retraced by protein engineering methods such as directed evolution, rational design, and ancestral sequence reconstruction. These approaches reveal how enzymes emerged from ligand‐binding scaffolds, developed varying substrate preferences, formed oligomeric complexes, adapted to environmental changes, and evolved novel ...
Lukas Drexler +2 more
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Investigating transcription factor dynamics in health and disease using FRAP
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.FRAP analysis of GFP‐tagged transcription factors reveals how molecular mobility and target engagement change in response to drug treatment. By combining live‐cell imaging, quantitative model fitting, and statistical analysis, this approach uncovers transcription factor dynamics linked to disease mechanisms, providing a powerful framework for ...
Kannan Govindaraj +3 more
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Music made visible in time and space : concepts of simultaneity in tone-eurythmy choreography [PDF]
, 2009 Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-113).Eurythmy is an art of movement that expresses music and speech. This dissertation explores eurythmy's musical field, called tone-eurythmy, in its multifaceted appearances, background and within its ...
Sponheuer, Silke
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