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Accelerated thermal shift in semi-arid urban environments: Urban heat island dynamics and seasonal energy balance disruption in Marrakesh, Morocco

Environmental Challenges
Rapidly urbanizing semi-arid regions face compounding thermal stress from global climate change and intensifying urban heat islands, yet their interactive effects on building energy demand remain poorly quantified.
Achraf Rachidi, Sanaa Hayani Mounir
doaj   +1 more source

Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
wiley   +1 more source

Fishing Activity Affected Odontocete Cetacean Distribution in a Marine Protected Area in the East China Sea

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Spatiotemporal distribution of odontocete cetaceans within China's Jiushan Archipelago National Nature Reserve was investigated. Fishing vessels significantly reduced both cetacean acoustic detections and feeding activity, whereas gillnets selectively suppressed cetacean feeding behavior without affecting overall cetacean detection rates.
Yifan Liu, Zitong Zhou, Peng Ding, Yu Pan, Zhi Yang, Haochi Wang, Fangqiao Wang, Tianshi Wei, Pengxiang Duan, Tomonari Akamatsu, Zhitao Wang   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

District of Malaita, British Solomon Islands Protectorate [cartographic material] /

, 1934
Map of Malaita showing islands, tracks, rivers, and cities.; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.map ...
British Solomon Islands Lands Department
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Short sources, islandhood, and pronominal correlates: New experimental support from German and Spanish for a short source approach to apparent exceptions to the clausemate condition on multiple sluicing

Glossa
This paper focuses on multiple sluicing (MS) utterances in which the antecedent for sluicing is syntactically complex, insofar as it contains at least one embedded clause. Complex antecedent MS (henceforth caMS) is subject to the clausemate condition (CC)
Álvaro Cortés Rodríguez, James Griffiths   +1 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Microplate Tectonics Through Earth History and Across Solid Multispheres

Geological Society of China Bulletin, EarlyView.
The evolution of tectonic microplates throughout Earth´s history as well as the transitions between microplates across different solid spheres offers a novel approach to expanding the traditional plate tectonics theory. ABSTRACT The evolution of tectonic microplates throughout Earth's history as well as the transitions between microplates across ...
Sanzhong Li, Yanhui Suo, Jie Zhou, Guozheng Sun, Jianping Zhou, Xianzhi Cao, Bo Liu, Lingli Guo, Zhaoxia Jiang, Qianqian Li, Shujuan Zhao, Long Chen, Xi Wang, Jun Hu, Xiaohui Li, Xiyao Li, Wenyong Duan, Lin Liu, Jie Liu, Guangzeng Wang, Pengcheng Wang, Qingbin Guan, Dingshan Deng, Xu Han, Liangliang Wang, Zihao Hu, Qiuling Liu, Heda Wang, Zihan Tian, Hans‐Peter Schertl   +29 more
wiley   +1 more source

District of Shortland, British Solomon Islands Protectorate [cartographic material] /

, 1937
Map of Shortland showing islands, boundaries, rivers, and cities.; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.map ...
British Solomon Islands Lands Department
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

District of San Cristoval, British Solomon Islands Protectorate [cartographic material] /

, 1934
Map of San Cristoval showing islands, tracks, rivers, and cities.; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.map ...
British Solomon Islands Lands Department
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Wh-questions and extraction asymmetries in Malagasy [PDF]

, 2001
The languages of the world differ with respect to argument extraction possibilities. In languages such as English, wh-movement is possible from Spec IP and from the complement position, whereas in languages such as Malagasy only extraction from Spec IP ...
Sabel, Joachim
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