The Use of Literature in the Foreign Language Classroom by Mustapha Saidi

“…Finally, the study uses Bahjat’s Ghurāb ʾibnaī ʾādam (i.e. The Crow of the Two Sons of Adam) to teach language skills and to introduce some multimodal activities such as adaptation and digital storytelling. …”
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“The Glory of the Nation”: Black Soldier-Historians and the Continuing African American Struggle for a Usable Past by Robert Cook

“…The article contends that, while the two pioneer soldier-historians were unable to sustain a national memory of black men’s military patriotism into the Jim Crow era, their innovative narrative strategies helped to lay the foundations of an effective black counter-memory of the Civil War period in the twentieth century.…”
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Birds as seed dispersers in deserts: suggestions from the ground-jays by Tiziano Londei

“…Virtually absent from the literature on seed dispersal are the ground-jays, genus Podoces, four species of the crow family that inhabit arid environments, even true deserts, from Iran to Mongolia. …”
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Computational models of episodic-like memory in food-caching birds by Johanni Brea, Nicola S. Clayton, Wulfram Gerstner

“…Abstract Birds of the crow family adapt food-caching strategies to anticipated needs at the time of cache recovery and rely on memory of the what, where and when of previous caching events to recover their hidden food. …”
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Beyond the Foreground: Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Prose by Jocelyn Williams

“…<p>Audience has overwhelmingly, and in rather uniform ways, embraced Ann-Marie MacDonald’s two novels, <em>Fall on Your Knees </em>and <em>The Way the Crow Flies</em>.  MacDonald, herself, however, has been less unvarying in her stated ambitions for her writing.  …”
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Probabilistic Operation of the Microgrids Including Active Loads and Distributed Generation Constrained to Flexibility and Reliability Indices by Hosein Hasan Shahi, Mehdi Nafar, Mohsen Simab

“…Probabilistic programming is also used to model the uncertainties of load, renewable energy, electrical energy price, and MG equipment accessibility. The ant-lion and crow search algorithms are merged to solve the problem and find a reliable optimal solution. …”
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Geometric design of turbo roundabouts by Tamara Džambas, Saša Ahac, Vesna Dragčević

“…First guidelines for geometric design of this particular roundabout layout were developed by a Dutch Information and Technology Platform CROW in 2008. Soon after, a number of European countries began to develop their own regulations on turbo roundabouts, adjusted to their traffic cultures and their local conditions. …”
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Contending discourses of black autobiography: respectability, authenticity, and masculinity by Anthony Foy

“…At the dawn of the Jim Crow era, Black autobiography conformed to a cultural politics of racial synecdoche, which avowed that racial progress depended on the respectability of esteemed individuals. …”
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Religion, Belonging, and Social Mobility in Civil Rights Era Birmingham, Alabama by Andrew M. Manis

“…This project will tell the story of how Gouvellis and his congregation negotiated the mysteries of evangelical religion in the Bible Belt and the enigmas of race in the Jim Crow South. This article distills the argument of what will be the only biography of Gouvellis and one of a very few studies of religion, race, and Greek ethnicity in the American South.…”
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Paul Beatty’s The Sellout as Allegory of the U.S. Carceral System by Maria-José Canelo

“…The fictional events at Dickens, as well as Bonbon Me’s story, it is argued, are only the first layer of signification in a plot that allegorizes what is perhaps the most racialized criminal system in the world, one that several critics see as the most efficient apparatus of social control after Jim Crow. Through a second layer of meaning, the most controversial representations in the novel, namely slavery and segregation, are explored. …”
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Comparative functional genomics identifies an iron-limited bottleneck in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain with a cytosolic-localized isobutanol pathway by Francesca V. Gambacorta, Ellen R. Wagner, Tyler B. Jacobson, Mary Tremaine, Laura K. Muehlbauer, Mick A. McGee, Justin J. Baerwald, Russell L. Wrobel, John F. Wolters, Mike Place, Joshua J. Dietrich, Dan Xie, Jose Serate, Shabda Gajbhiye, Lisa Liu, Maikayeng Vang-Smith, Joshua J. Coon, Yaoping Zhang, Audrey P. Gasch, Daniel Amador-Noguez, Chris Todd Hittinger, Trey K. Sato, Brian F. Pfleger

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A Comprehensive Introduction to Militarisation of Space / by Seeley, Meaghan, author 648366

“…Ships were equipped with crow's nests that facilitated long-range reconnaissance. …”
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Simulation of Building Evacuation: Performance Analysis and Simplified Model by Alginahi, Yasser M., Kabir, M. Nomani

“…Simulation of crowd evacuation is an integral part of planning for emergency situations and training staff for crow management. In this paper, simulation of crowd evacuation for a large building-hall is studied using a popular crowd-simulation software BuildingEXODUS. …”
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An Educational Tool Aimed at Learning Metaheuristics by Kader, Md. Abdul, Jamaluddin, Jamal A., Kamal Z., Zamli

“…Initially, this tool adopts only Crow Search, Jaya, and Sine Cosine algorithms. But more metaheuristics will be included in future research. …”
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An Intertextual Analysis of the Story of “The Jewish King who killed the Christians because of prejudice’’ from Masnavi by Mahmoud Rezaei Dasht Arzhaneh, Mohammad Bijanzadeh

“…As the proponents of intertextuality believe that there is no original text, the results of this study also showed that this story of Masnavi is a reflection of its earlier stories such as ‘Shaghad and Rostam’ from Shahnameh, ‘Jazymat olabrsh’ from Balami's History, ‘Firouz, the king of Iran and Hytalyan’ from Tabari's History and ‘The owl and the crow’ from Kalileh and Demneh. In all of these five stories, there is enmity between two nations and one of the king's followers asks the king to beat him in front of people. …”
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The Scream Phenomenon in the Poetry of Ted Hughes by Antonina A. Myasnikova

“…The analysis of the poems reveals a gradual semantic expansion of the poetic image: while in early animalistic and landscape lyrics the scream is interpreted as an expression of animal suffering or the personification of wild nature, later collections containing elements of the author’s mythology show the acoustic image as a metaphor of the divine presence (“Adam and the Sacred Nine”), a symptom of split consciousness (“Prometheus on his crag”), a mechanism for healing psychological traumas (“Wolfwatching”), and also acquires cosmogonic features (“Crow,” “Cave birds”). The paradigm of the meanings ends with the “birth of the logos,” marking the beginning of the character’s communication with the outside world. …”
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Use of Botulinum Neurotoxin in Ophthalmology by Emel Başar, Ceyhun Arıcı

“…The most common areas for botulinum toxin treatment are the upper face, including the glabella, forehead, brows, and lateral canthal lines or crow’s feet. By relaxing the muscles causing wrinkles, non-permanent results may be achieved with its use. …”
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Systemic Racism, Police Brutality of Black People, and the Use of Violence in Quelling Peaceful Protests in America by Williams C. Iheme

“…After the official abolition of slavery in the second half of the nineteenth century, the initial inability of Black people to own land, coupled with the various Jim Crow laws rendered the acquired freedom nearly insignificant in the face of poverty and hopelessness. …”
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Cadmium and arsenic concentrations in Sri Lankan rice and their potential health risks by E. M. R. K. B. Edirisinghe, B. K. K. K. Jinadasa

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Point & Counterpoint The Purpose of Institutional Repositories: Green OA or Beyond? by Deborah Barreau

“…Although always closely associated with the open access movement, in particular open access to the published research through self-archiving (“Green” OA), an approach long championed by Stevan Harnad (e.g., Harnad, 1999) and others, some of the most influential and visionary early essays on IRs speak of them as providing infrastructure for the stewardship of a wide range of institutional output (Lynch, 2003) and as a new way for libraries to support publishing functions (Crow, 2002). And while many libraries have concentrated on green OA to fill their IRs—with or without mandates, always with mixed success— many more have slowly but surely built successful, thriving IRs by providing stewardship of and access to the grey literature, the theses and dissertations, the undergraduate research, and the research data produced on their campuses. …”
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