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Tolerance or Assimilation: The Legends of the Chinese Restaurant and "The Gypsy's Tavern"

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016
Studying urban legends, the French folklorist Véronique Campion-Vincent posed the question of whether some of the more recent legends preach tolerance. The "elevator incident" or "swallowed ticket" legends display a different attitude to Others from that
Ivan Kovačević
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Soules, Tenoah Cassandre (FA 58) [PDF]

, 2012
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 58. Paper: Urban Legends, written by Tenoah Cassandre Soules for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky ...
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &
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First Records of the Adventive Pseudoanthidium nanum (Mocsáry) (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in Illinois and Minnesota, with Notes on its Identification and Taxonomy [PDF]

, 2019
We report the first records of Pseudoanthidium nanum (Mocsáry) in Illinois and Minnesota in 2016 and 2018, respectively. This represents a relatively rapid expansion since P. nanum was first detected in New Jersey in 2008.
Arduser, Mike, Burrows, Skyler J, Cariveau, Daniel P, Griswold, Terry, Irber, Aaron J, Portman, Zachary M, Tonietto, Rebecca K   +6 more
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Climate Crisis, Human Mobility and Security Challenges in the MENA Region: Implications for Sustainable Development and Regional Stability

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the interplay between climate change, violent conflict and forced migration in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), focusing on asylum flows to the European Union (EU). By integrating high‐resolution climate, conflict and socioeconomic data spanning 2000 to 2023, we develop a comprehensive empirical framework to ...
Shifa Mathbout, George Boustras, Pierantonios Papazoglou, Javier Martin‐Vide, Joan A. Lopez‐Bustins   +4 more
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Forestillinger om villhet og kontroll

Tidsskrift for Kulturforskning, 2023
This article explores shifts and tensions in experiences of nature in relation to folklore as a mediating technology that both reflects and affects experiences of nature in a range of ways.
Erica Colman-Denstad
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A Case Report on Rehabilitation of the Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus ussuricus) in the Wild 亚洲黑熊 (Ursus thibetanus ussuricus) 野外放归野化案例报告

Wildlife Letters, EarlyView.
Asiatic black bears in Russia face conservation threats such as habitat destruction and fragmentation, which exacerbate food shortages caused by crop failures. This study explores an innovative approach to rehabilitating bears that abandon hibernation in mid‐winter due to extreme exhaustion by providing supplemental food near their den sites.
Sergey A. Kolchin, Platon A. Maistrenko, Aleksey Yu. Oleynikov   +2 more
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Neutron reflectometry instrumentation at the ISIS source: current state

Journal of Applied Crystallography, EarlyView.
This article presents the current capabilities of the four time‐of‐flight neutron reflectometers at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, highlighting recent advances in instrumentation, automation and data analysis that enable high‐precision studies of interfacial structures across diverse scientific fields.Neutron reflectometry (NR) at the ISIS Neutron ...
Mario Campana, Andrew Caruana, Luke Clifton, Stephen Hall, Arwel Hughes, Christy Kinane, Maximilian Skoda, Oleksandr Tomchuk, John Webster   +8 more
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That sh*t is rude! Religion, Picture Books, and Social Narratives in Middle School [PDF]

, 2017
While the U.S. has a divisive history around the separation of church and state in public school, current national and state teaching standards do include curricular objectives related to the study of religion.
Davila, Denise, Volz, Allison
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Linking remote-sensing estimates of land cover and census statistics on land use to produce maps of land use of the conterminous United States [PDF]

, 2001
Human use of the land has a large effect on the structure of terrestrial ecosystems and the dynamics of biogeochemical cycles. For this reason, terrestrial ecosystem and biogeochemistry models require moderate resolution (e.g., ≤0.5°) information on land
Belward, Berrien Moore, Brower, Frolking, George C. Hurtt, Houghton, Hurtt, Kates, Loveland, Lynn Rosentrater, Metropolis, Press, Ramankutty, Scepan, Schimel, Skole, Smil, Steve Frolking, Vitousek, Vitousek, Vorosmarty, Yang   +21 more
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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