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Everyday Evil in Palestine
Ilan Pappé
Nov 12, 2021
This article is an attempt to cast content into the popular phrase used by activists in the Palestine solidary movement that in order to understand and be moved by the nature of colonization in Palestine all that is needed is a...
Characteristics of Red Spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) Encroachment at Two Central Appalachian Heathland Study Areas
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, intensive land use nearly eliminated red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) throughout portions of West Virginia (WV). Red spruce has been slow to regenerate on mountaintop heathland...
Published by: IGI Global
Community-Centered Urban Sensing
The authors examine the problem of integrating urban sensing into engaged planning. The authors ask whether enhanced urban data and analysis can enhance resident engagement in planning and design, rather than hinder it, even...
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We Are Martinsville (WAM)
Rural communities in Virginia have experienced a decline caused by national economic trends. Formerly vibrant towns with rich histories and cultures increasingly suffer from a shrinking population and a lack of new investment...
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Evaluating Urban Sensing Within Engaged Planning and Design
Civic technology models propose that urban environmental sensing and analysis can inform community-based decision making, but technology-driven planning and design is still subject to systemic challenges including a lack of...
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C/T Merge Locations for Focus
Virginia Motaoanyane
Sep 10, 2013
Romanian constructions with preverbal focus compared with English clefts point to a parametric approach: languages display different strategies for overt movement to focus according to their parametric setting for [wh/focusl or...
Statin-use and perceptions of high cholesterol as predictors of healthy lifestyle behaviours in Nigerians.
It is unclear how statin-use influences the adoption of healthy lifestyle choices. It is important to understand the nature of this relationship as this could facilitate targeted public health interventions which could help...
An Approach to Supporting Teaching With Data in the Social Sciences
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is moving rapidly toward integrating data literacy and data science in the undergraduate curriculum. This study interviewed instructors across the social sciences to identify ways...
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Auxiliary encliticization in 16th century Romanian
Rodica Zafiu
May 23, 2014
This paper focuses on a specific case of variation between the (dominant) auxiliary-main verb order and the mainverb-auxiliary order. By analyzing a corpus of 16th-century texts, we describe certain regularities displayed by...
An Argumental Position for Preverbal Subjects in Bulgarian
Virginia Motapanyane
Sep 05, 2013
Balkan languages present a relatively free word order that allows for the alternation of 5 VO/VSO in unmarked sentences. Current studies in generative grammar consider V 5 0 to be the basic word order for languages such as...
ID Politics
Essya M. Nabbali
Apr 16, 2015
Scholarship in feminism, anticolonialism, Disability and Mad studies, have repositioned storytelling as instructive to the present and to the ethics of care. Emplotted with time and space, like the acts and lives of others...
A Desire to be ‘Normal’? A Discursive and Intersectional Analysis of ‘Penetration Disorder’
Psychiatry’s problematic framing of femininity, women’s bodies, and sexuality has attracted much condemnation (Caplan & Cosgrove, 2004; Frith, 2013; Ussher, 2011). The intersection of sanism and sexism is particularly overt...