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How the Dominant Reading Direction Changes Parafoveal Processing: A Combined EEG/Eye-Tracking Study. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Reading directions vary across writing systems. Through long‐term experience, readers adjust their visual systems to the dominant reading direction in their writing systems. However, little is known about the neural correlates underlying these adjustments because different writing systems do not just differ in reading direction, but also in ...
Huang X +6 more
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Global legal change from below and above
Abstract This article is a contribution to the occasional series dealing with a major book that has influenced the author. Previous contributors include Stewart Macaulay, John Griffith, William Twining, Carol Harlow, Geoffrey Bindman, Harry Arthurs, André‐Jean Arnaud, Alan Hunt, Michael Adler, Lawrence O. Gostin, John P.
TERENCE C. HALLIDAY
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The client net state: Trajectories of state control over cyberspace
Abstract Social media corporations have become fixtures of daily life to the extent they are regularly compared to states in size and scope. These corporations and their platforms have become the dominant stakeholders of cyberspace, operating as state‐like cyber actors, or net states.
Callum J. Harvey, Christopher L. Moore
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SIGNIFICANCE The ethnic differences in myopia rates, ocular dimensions, and risk factors between Han and non‐Han schoolchildren observed in this study may help fill the knowledge gap about ethnic minorities and are important for China and other countries to address vision‐related health inequalities among different ethnic groups.
Yumeng Shi +8 more
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Abstract This article presents an overview of several significant aspects of the phonology of Uyghur (ISO: uig; pronounced [ʊjˈʁʊr]; Turkic: China). In addition to summarising previous research, we present new data and highlight its relevance for phonological theory.
Connor Mayer +2 more
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Linguistic purism as resistance to colonization
Abstract As the Mongolian language is equated with ethnic survival in Inner Mongolia, the metadiscourse of Mongolian linguistic purism has become a vital tactic for enacting Mongolian identity and creating a counterspace against Chinese linguistic and cultural hegemony.
Gegentuul Baioud, Cholmon Khuanuud
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ABSTRACT This study provides an extensive review of modern slavery practises within the global supply chain, highlighting it as a significant human rights violation that affects both the well‐being of victims and the overall supply chain performance of organisations.
Kingsley Kofi Arthur +5 more
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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ABSTRACT Existing literature largely agrees that authoritarian regimes establish channels for political participation to gather valuable information on citizens' anti‐regime sentiments and policy preferences and to supervise lower‐level bureaucrats and firms.
Anton Bogs
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ABSTRACT Adopting a broad understanding of compliance as adherence to norms, this study examines the role of the Chinese–Hungarian Bilingual School in Budapest in the propagation of institutional, educational, and civic norms, through an anthropological inquiry into the discourses and practices embraced and enacted by teachers, parents, and students ...
Fanni Beck, Pál Nyíri
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