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Trends in the ecological character of the world’s wetlands [PDF]
Marine and Freshwater Research, 2019 We assessed trends in the ecological character of wetlands generally and of Ramsar Sites reported in 2011, 2014 and 2017 by the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in their national reports. There was more widespread deterioration than improvement in the ecological character of wetlands generally, with deterioration increasingly ...
Davidson, N. +8 more
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Arbitrary Character of World-Geometry [PDF]
Nature, 1934 PROF. E. A. MILNE, in the important paper1 in which he gives an account of an invariant distribution of particles forming an expanding universe in flat space-time, has stated that the geometry adopted in cosmological theories may be chosen arbitrarily, the expression of the laws of Nature being relative to the geometry assumed.
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Review of the New World Notomicrus Sharp (Coleoptera, Noteridae) I: Circumscription of species groups and review of the josiahi group with description of a new species from Brazil [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2021 The New World species of the minute aquatic beetle genus Notomicrus Sharp compose a much greater diversity than their Old World congeners, with 14 of the 17 known Notomicrus species occurring in the Neotropics.
Stephen M. Baca, Andrew Edward Z. Short
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ZooKeys, 2017 The prior genus-level classification of Cardiophorinae had never been assessed phylogenetically, and not revised since 1906. A phylogeny for Cardiophorinae and Negastriinae is inferred by Bayesian analyses of 163 adult morphological characters to revise ...
Hume B. Douglas
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La représentation de l’expérience inénarrable de la migration
Cahiers d’Études Romanes, 2018 The novels entitled Les Alouettes naïves and Tels des astres éteints by Assia and Leonora show us characters in crisis with themselves and the world around them.
Anouchka Stevellia Moussavou Nyama
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Reader as a Character’s Interlocutor in J. Barnes’ Postmodernist Texts
Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2018 The texts of both novels are characterized by a notable lack of the narrator figure, which would have acted as an intermediary between the narrative and the readers, the imagined text world and the real world actors who perceive these works of art.
Anastasia A. Borovkova
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The “Ideal” Life in Cyberspace in Novel Kerumunan Terakhir
Kandai, 2018 This paper elucidates ‘ideal life’ issue which is undergone by characters in Okky Madasari’s Kerumunan Terakhir (The Last Crowd), which takes two different settings, which are in the digital and the real world.
Chinintya Suma Ningtyas
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İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi, 2022 In this study, the similarities between the world view of Halide Edip Adıvar and George Bernard Shaw, the reflections of these similarities on their understanding of art, themes of their works and the role of their heroines, will be discussed.
Yasemin Bayraktar +2 more
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Panpsychism in Bergson and James
Bergsoniana, 2022 The aim of this article is to show that Bergson and James defend a form of panpsychism, and that on this point, Bergson probably had an influence on James.
Joël Dolbeault
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Appraisal for a Character-Based Story-World [PDF]
, 2005 Dramatic story-worlds, i.e., simulations inhabited by software actors for enacting (not necessarily explicitly anticipated) dramatically interesting plots, require situated software agents with emotional competences. The operationalisation of concepts from appraisal theories of emotion can contribute to providing flexible autonomous roleplayers for ...
Stefan Rank, Paolo Petta
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