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Material Semiotic Narratives of Finnishness Through a Mundane Object: The Case of the Plastic Bucket
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores how Finnishness is constructed in media texts with and through plastic buckets. By so doing, the article contributes to research on materiality and nationalism through examining the role of a mundane object instead of official national symbols.
Alma Onali
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[sic], 2016 “C'mon, let's go people, it's the coppers,” she would shout sometimes, out of the blue, but for the most part, Gracijela was saying things to herself on a loop and dragging her feet in shabby men's shoes.
Una Krizmanić Ožegović +1 more
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Acculturation of Chinese and Islamic Culture at the Interior of the Ronghe Mosque [PDF]
, 2019 The architectural form of the Ronghe mosque is an architectural work with cultural tolerance related to building function change and cultural fusion. The combination of culture is manifested in the form of the mosque’s interior with various elements and ...
Andrianawati, A. (Aida ) +1 more
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New Techniques for Associating the Stages of Aquatic Insects [PDF]
, 2017 (excerpt) The immature forms of many benthic insect species are presently either undescribed or unidentifiable. The result is that associations with corresponding adult forms are often necessary in order to confirm specific and sometimes generic ...
McCafferty, W P, Provonsha, A. V.
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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
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Existential Process in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secret: a Systemic Functional Linguistic Study [PDF]
, 2016 Dealing with sense of experience people undergo, transitivity construes the process of the experiences. One of the processes in transitivity is discussed here, that is existential process.
Afrianto, A. (Afrianto) +1 more
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NASA's Great Observatories Kit [PDF]
Using this kit, students may construct paper models of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. Parts sheets for printing, instructions, and a list of other required materials are included.
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Bothy busi/yness: Recirculating representation and practice in the Scottish landscape
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Abstract This paper uses the ‘busi/yness’ of Scottish mountain bothies to explore the agency of representation and its entanglement with practice. In doing so it asks, firstly, what are the material and discursive impacts of a rise in the symbolic value of an object (or in this case a building)?
Rachel Hunt
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Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Volume 125, Issue 2, March 2026.Abstract Video games have been used in several studies to investigate problem solving. We present empirical findings from a redesigned touchscreen navigation “grid‐world” procedure resembling the classic video game PacMan (hereafter, “pacman”) played by pigeons. Our objective was to develop a procedure to study insight, similar to that of Epstein et al.
Rafael S. Rodrigues +3 more
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Hygro-mechanical response of oak wood cabinet door panels under relative humidity fluctuations
Heritage Science, 2018 Indoor climate fluctuations are regarded as one of the major risks for the emergence of damage in historical works of art. For a safe preservation of their art objects museums try to minimize this risk, which is typically done by imposing strict ...
R. A. Luimes +4 more
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