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(In)complete acquisition of Turkish among Turkish-German bilinguals in Germany and Turkey: An analysis of complex embeddings in narratives (2007)
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Although most researchers recognise that the language repertoire of bilinguals can vary, few studies have tried to address variation in bilingual competence in any detail. This study aims to take a first step towards further understanding the way in... Read More about (In)complete acquisition of Turkish among Turkish-German bilinguals in Germany and Turkey: An analysis of complex embeddings in narratives.

'Bringing great shame upon this city': Sodomy, the courts and the civic idiom in eighteenth-century Bristol (2007)
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During the 1730s, Bristol acquired an unenviable reputation as a city in which sodomy was endemic and rarely punished by the civil power. Although the cause lay partly in difficulties experienced in securing convictions, the resolve of magistrates wa... Read More about 'Bringing great shame upon this city': Sodomy, the courts and the civic idiom in eighteenth-century Bristol.

'Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!': Robert Browning's portrayal of contemporary Italians (2007)
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Language contact between Spanish and Mosetén: A study of grammatical integration (2007)
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This publication is a comprehensive study of the grammatical elements borrowed from Spanish into Mosetén. The author addresses the ways in which these elements are integrated, divides them into different groups of elements and compares how these rela... Read More about Language contact between Spanish and Mosetén: A study of grammatical integration.

"Student Retention and Motivation" (2007)
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Human rights and foreign policy: Wilson and the greek dictators, 1967-1970 (2007)
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The military coup of 21 April 1967 brought to power a repressive dictatorship in Greece. It proceeded to deprive Greeks of their human rights and civil liberties, outraged international public opinion and strained transatlantic relations during the C... Read More about Human rights and foreign policy: Wilson and the greek dictators, 1967-1970.

Venice and rome in the addresses and dispatches of sir henry wotton: First english embassy to Venice, 1604-1610 (2007)
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Language contact between Spanish and Mosetén: A study of grammatical integration (2007)
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Mosetén (Mosetenan) is spoken by approximately 800 people in the foothills of the Bolivian Andes. All of the speakers are bilingual in Spanish and Mosetén. Spanish is highly dominant and as expected, Mosetén has borrowed many structures from this lan... Read More about Language contact between Spanish and Mosetén: A study of grammatical integration.

Planting peace: The Greater London council and the community gardens of central London (2007)
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'Peace' has not lent itself easily to emblematic or mnemonic forms of representation. In Europe's furnished urban landscapes of the 19th century peace was often personified in female allegorical form. She can be seen in many of the sculpted memorials... Read More about Planting peace: The Greater London council and the community gardens of central London.

Measuring progress: An evaluative study of aimhigher south west 2003-2006 (2007)
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The persistence of the social class gap in higher education (HE) participation presents one of the biggest challenges for the English HE sector at the start of the 21st century. This paper considers the evidence collected by the Aimhigher partnership... Read More about Measuring progress: An evaluative study of aimhigher south west 2003-2006.

Azure Mouse, Bloater Hill, Goose Puddings, and One Land called the Cow: Continuity and conundrums in Lincolnshire minor names (2007)
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Curious fame: the literary relevance of Alexander Mackenzie reconsidered (2007)
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The limits of quantification: Francoist repression and historical methodology (2007)
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Televisa's Brozo: The jester as subversive humorist (2007)
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This study utilizes, rhetorically, the case of a Mexican television personality, Brozo, whose format includes satiric humorous communication and subversion of the authority of the Mexican elite on a morning television news program. Brozo's incursion... Read More about Televisa's Brozo: The jester as subversive humorist.

New technologies for 3D realization in Art and Design practice (2007)
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As digital design technologies become ever more widespread, CAD-CAM, virtual and rapid prototyping techniques are increasingly being exploited by creative practitioners working in areas outside the industrial design and engineering contexts in which... Read More about New technologies for 3D realization in Art and Design practice.

The body at the front: Corporeity and community in Jan Patocka's heretical essays in the philosophy of history (2007)
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Abstract: This paper investigates the relation in PatoËka’s thought between the concepts of the “front” and the “solidarity of the shaken”,which we find in the Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History, particularly the sixth essay, “Wars of the... Read More about The body at the front: Corporeity and community in Jan Patocka's heretical essays in the philosophy of history.

Governance capacity and regionalist dynamics (2006)
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The debate on the effects of regionalism and European integration on European nation states has been prominent for more than a decade. Regionalization of EU states has not brought with it genuine regional autonomy and regionalism has not emerged as a... Read More about Governance capacity and regionalist dynamics.

Theory and practice: Psychoanalytic sociology as psycho-social studies (2006)
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Over the past few years there has been an increasing interest in the use of psychoanalytic ideas within a sociological framework. These ideas have been largely developed within sociological theory rather than practice. There does, however, seem to be... Read More about Theory and practice: Psychoanalytic sociology as psycho-social studies.

All that melts into air is solid: Rematerialising capital in Cube and Videodrome (2006)
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Innovation and corporate failure: Cyril Lord in U.K. Textiles, 1945-1968 (2006)
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