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From arsenic to DDT: Pesticides, Fascism and the invisibility of toxic risks in the early years of Francoist Spain (1939-1953)
2021
This paper reviews the way in which Spanish agriculture climbed onto the pesticide treadmill. We claim that Fascist policies and expert advice assembled in the early 1940s accelerated the introduction of pesticides into Spanish agriculture and promoted the emergence of the Spanish pesticide industry in the times of autarky. Agricultural engineers were the key protagonists in this process, but other human and non-human actors also played a pivotal role: a new pest (the Colorado beetle), Francoist politicians, farmers, landowners and industry managers. Our focus is on the use of pesticides against the Colorado beetle (the main threat to the potato crop), and the transition from arsenical pest…
Harmonization of Communication in Professional Setting
2020
The 21st century has introduced many changes in modern workplaces which have become multilingual and multicultural. The present paper sheds light on selected aspects of workplace discourse, revealing that backstage communication in a professional setting plays a very significant role in establishing and maintaining effective subject-bound transaction and/or interaction between the partners involved in communication. The theoretical framework of the paper is designed to consider recent contributions in professional communication research supported by some seminal theoretical writings on linguistic ecology that explore the role of language in natural interactions that occur among people worki…
1905.gada revolūcijas atbalsis 20.gs. latviešu liroepikā
2017
Bakalaura darbā „1905.gada revolūcijas atbalsis 20.gs. latviešu liroepikā” sniegts priekšstats par 1905.gada revolūcijas attēlojumu latviešu poēmās, uzmanību pievēršot tekstiem, kas tapuši ar laika distanci – gan pēc 1905., gan pēc 1917.gada revolūcijas, izņemot Raiņa darbu „Epus 1905”, kurš tapis revolūcijas laikā. Pētījumā galvenā uzmanība ir pievērsta četrām latviešu rakstnieku poēmām – Raiņa „Epus 1905” (1906), V.Plūdoņa „Uz saulaino tāli” (1912), A. Upīša „Piektais cēliens” (1919) un V. Luksa „Slava” (1957), kas tapušas dažādos laika posmos un līdz ar to katra citādi ataino arī revolūciju.. Šīm četrām poēmām tiek raksturoti motīvi, tēli un analizēta poētika un valoda. Poētikas raksturo…
Language, Childhood, and Fire: How We Learned to Love Sharing Stories.
2022
Stories do not fossilize. Thus, exploring tales shared during prehistory, the longest part of human history inevitably becomes speculative. Nevertheless, various attempts have been made to find a more scientifically valid way into our deep human past of storytelling. Following the social brain hypothesis, we suggest including into the theory of human storytelling more fine-grained and evidence-based findings (from archaeology, the cognitive sciences, and evolutionary psychology) about the manifold exaptation and adaptation, genetic changes, and phenotypic plasticity in the deep human past, which all shaped the emergence of storytelling in hominins. We identify three preconditions for humans…
Twórczość literacka kobiet w Bośni i Hercegowinie po 1990 roku na wybranych przykładach
2019
The paper presents the women's writing in Bosnia and Herzegovina after 1990. The main representative authors of contemporary women’s literature are described. The most interesting questions and problems, the most freąuently occuring topics are also analyzed.
Llengua i espiritualitat en la Vita Christi d’Isabel de Villena
2015
Resum:La Vita Christi de sor Isabel de Villena es gestà en la dècada dels 60 del segle XV a partir dels tractats que l’abadessa del monestir de la Trinitat de València usava per a formar les seues monges i per a suscitar en elles la contemplació de Jesús a través dels ulls de Maria i de les dones que l’envoltaren. La comparació de la llengua i de l’estil del Tractat de la Passió i els de les edicions de 1497 i 1513 ha permès comprovar que aquells s’adaptaren a la sensibilitat religiosa i lingüística de cada moment. El llenguatge de l’abadessa, culte i popular alhora, no es deixà influir pel de Corella. Tanmateix, sor Aldonça de Montsoriu, l’editora de l’incunable, intentà 'vendre' l’«elegan…
Book Review: Statistical Inference as Severe Testing
2019
Metsänhaltijat itäsuomalaisessa kansanuskonnossa
2009
The energy and identification continua of burnout and work engagement : Developmental profiles over eight years
2017
Abstract Understanding of the mutual developmental dynamics between burnout and work engagement is limited due to the lack of longitudinal studies with long follow-ups and multi-wave data. This study sought to identify subgroups of employees characterized by long-term exhaustion-vigor (energy continuum) and cynicism-dedication (identification continuum). A further important aim was to investigate differences between the identified subgroups in their experiences of progress in their personal work goals. Five-wave, eight-year follow-up data among Finnish white-collar professionals ( n = 168) were studied using Latent Profile Analysis (LPA). The analysis yielded three exhaustion-vigor subgrou…
Individuality in the Early Number Skill Components Underlying Basic Arithmetic Skills
2018
Early number skills underlie success in basic arithmetic. However, very little is known about the skill profiles among children in preprimary education and how the potential profiles are related to arithmetic development. This longitudinal study of 440 Finnish children in preprimary education (mean age: 75 months) modeled latent performance-level profile groups for the early number skill components that are proposed to be key predictors of arithmetic (symbolic number comparison, mapping, and verbal counting skills). Based on three assessment time points (September, January, and May), four profile groups were found: the poorest-performing (6%), low-performing (16%), near-average-performing (…