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Putting Nicobar Islands on the map: Intersections of colonial knowledge, trade and colonisation
The study of colonial knowledge has shed new light on the process of trade and colonisation within the Indian Ocean world in the early modern period....
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Global processes of anthropogenesis characterise the early Anthropocene in the Japanese Islands
Although many scholars date the onset of the Anthropocene to the Industrial Revolution or the post-1945 ‘Great Acceleration’, there is growing...
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English language hegemony: retrospect and prospect
This paper explores the ascent of English as a global lingua franca within the context of linguistic hegemony, following Phillipson’s 1992 framework....
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Genetic diversity of loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) revealed using RAD-Seq SNP markers
Loquat ( Eriobotrya japonica ) have originated in southeastern China and spread as a cultivated plant worldwide. Many of the loquat genetic resources...
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Ideologies underlying language policy and planning in the Philippines
This study utilizes Cobarrubias’ (1983. Ethical issues in status planning. In: Progress in language planning: international perspectives. pp. 41–85)...
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Translations in Children’s Paradise (1970–1979): the Union’s agendas and the Cold War cultural diplomacy in Hong Kong
During the Cold War era, translation constituted an integral part of the ideological confrontations of US cultural diplomacy. Scholarly discussions...
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A Chinese tale of three regions: a century of China in thousands of films
Over the past 70 years, because of their different historical and social contexts, the film industries of China’s three regions, namely mainland...
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New Permian radiolarians from east Asia and the quantitative reconstruction of their evolutionary and ecological significances
The biostratigraphically important Permian radiolarian genera Pseudoalbaillella sensu stricto and Follicucullus (Follicucullidae, Polycystinea) are...
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A “pre-traumatic stress syndrome”: trauma and war in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September and The Heat of the Day
As a modernist writer writing through the two World Wars and witnessing the decline of British imperial power through the decay of her own class, the...
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An elongated COI fragment to discriminate botryllid species and as an improved ascidian DNA barcode
Botryllids are colonial ascidians widely studied for their potential invasiveness and as model organisms, however the morphological description and...
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Asia’s four regionalisms (Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and East Asia): a view from multilateral treaties of the United Nations
This study presents a quantitative framework to analyze the engagement of four Asian sub-regions with global issues through their participation in...
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Impact of the Tambora volcanic eruption of 1815 on islands and relevance to future sunlight-blocking catastrophes
Island nations may have potential long-term survival value for humanity in global catastrophes such as sun-blocking catastrophes from nuclear winter...
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Species traits predict the aryl hydrocarbon receptor 1 (AHR1) subtypes responsible for dioxin sensitivity in birds
Differences in avian sensitivity to dioxin-like compounds (DLCs) are directly attributable to the identities of amino acids at two sites within the...
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Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs
The grey wolf ( Canis lupus ) was the first species to give rise to a domestic population, and they remained widespread throughout the last Ice Age...
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Threefold translation of the body of Christ: concepts of the Eucharist and the body translated in the early modern missionary context
This article tests the usefulness of concepts from translation studies to understand the dynamics and mechanisms of cultural translation. It asks...
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Intergenerational differences in Russian color naming in the globalized era: linguistic analysis
The present study is an apparent-time analysis of color terms in Russian native speakers ( N = 1927), whose age varied between 16 and 98 years....
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Dueling nationalisms in North and South Korea
Are frequent appeals to autonomy and self-reliance by political leaders indicative of strong North and South Korean nationalism? As divided nations...
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East Asian Gothic: a definition
This paper offers a definition of East Asian Gothic cinema in which a shared cultural mythology, based upon cultural proximity and intra-regional...