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Schemata of estrangement in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed (2024)
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Whitt, R. J. (2024). Schemata of estrangement in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. Language and Literature, https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470241240923

Ursula Le Guin’s novel The Dispossessed (1974) is the first literary treatment of anarchic utopianism, presenting the society on the moon Anarres as operating on social principles lacking any sort of State or governmental oversight (known in the nove... Read More about Schemata of estrangement in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed.

First archaeological evidence for ginger consumption as a potential medicinal ingredient in a late medieval leprosarium at St Leonard, Peterborough, England (2024)
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Fiorin, E., Roberts, C. A., Baldoni, M., Connelly, E., Lee, C., Ottoni, C., & Cristiani, E. (2024). First archaeological evidence for ginger consumption as a potential medicinal ingredient in a late medieval leprosarium at St Leonard, Peterborough, England. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 2452. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52422-8

Leprosy was one of the most outwardly visible diseases in the European Middle Ages, a period during which leprosaria were founded to provide space for the sick. The extant documentary evidence for leprosy hospitals, especially in relation to diet, th... Read More about First archaeological evidence for ginger consumption as a potential medicinal ingredient in a late medieval leprosarium at St Leonard, Peterborough, England.

UK flockdown: A survey of smallscale poultry keepers and their understanding of governmental guidance on highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) (2024)
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McClaughlin, E., Elliott, S., Jewitt, S., Smallman-Raynor, M., Dunham, S., Parnell, T., …Tarlinton, R. (2024). UK flockdown: A survey of smallscale poultry keepers and their understanding of governmental guidance on highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 224, Article 106117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2024.106117

The scale of the current outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) due to the A/H5N1 virus in the United Kingdom is unprecedented. In addition to its economic impact on the commercial poultry sector, the disease has devastated wild bird co... Read More about UK flockdown: A survey of smallscale poultry keepers and their understanding of governmental guidance on highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).

Veterinarians' knowledge and experience of avian influenza and perspectives on control measures in the United Kingdom (2024)
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Jewitt, S., Mcclaughlin, E., Elliott, S., Smallman-Raynor, M., Clark, M., Dunham, S., & Tarlinton, R. (in press). Veterinarians' knowledge and experience of avian influenza and perspectives on control measures in the United Kingdom. Veterinary Record, Article e3713

Background The scale of the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–23 due to the influenza A/H5N1 virus is unprecedented. Methods An online survey was designed to explore veterinarians’ experiences of and confidence in trea... Read More about Veterinarians' knowledge and experience of avian influenza and perspectives on control measures in the United Kingdom.

'Keep it Gothic, Man': Gothic and Graphic Medicine in Ian Williams's The Bad Doctor (2023)
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GREEN, M. (2023). 'Keep it Gothic, Man': Gothic and Graphic Medicine in Ian Williams's The Bad Doctor. Gothic Studies, 25(3), 280-299. https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2023.0176

Exploring the intersection of Gothic Medicine and Graphic Medicine in Ian William's graphic novel, The Bad Doctor, this article discusses the ways in which gothic aesthetics, particularly representations of the abject encounter, contribute to an unde... Read More about 'Keep it Gothic, Man': Gothic and Graphic Medicine in Ian Williams's The Bad Doctor.

Repetition and Incidental Learning of Multiword Units: A Conceptual Multisite Replication Study of Webb, Newton, and Chang (2013) (2023)
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Peters, E., Puimège, E., & Szudarski, P. (2023). Repetition and Incidental Learning of Multiword Units: A Conceptual Multisite Replication Study of Webb, Newton, and Chang (2013). Language Learning, 73(4), 1211-1251. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12621

This multisite study replicates Webb, Newton, and Chang's (2013) study on the effect of repetition on incidental learning of multiword units (MWUs). Even though more researchers have started to investigate MWUs, most data have been collected from uni... Read More about Repetition and Incidental Learning of Multiword Units: A Conceptual Multisite Replication Study of Webb, Newton, and Chang (2013).

Seven Falls from Olumirin’s Pot: African Eco-Spirituality and Myths of Erin-Ijesha Waterfalls in Nigeria (2023)
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Ojebode, A. O. (2023). Seven Falls from Olumirin’s Pot: African Eco-Spirituality and Myths of Erin-Ijesha Waterfalls in Nigeria. Green Letters / Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2023.2272942

Contemporary critics of ecocriticism have explored ecologies dynamically across different genres in postcolonial African literature, especially in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. However, they overlook African Eco-spirituality underpinned by indigenous... Read More about Seven Falls from Olumirin’s Pot: African Eco-Spirituality and Myths of Erin-Ijesha Waterfalls in Nigeria.

Effects of Pre‐Reading Study and Reading Exposure on the Learning and Processing of Collocations (2023)
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Altamimi, A., & Conklin, K. (2023). Effects of Pre‐Reading Study and Reading Exposure on the Learning and Processing of Collocations. TESOL Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3268

Little is known about the effect of pre-reading exposure on collocational learning. This study used eye-tracking and offline measures (form recall and recognition) to explore the effectiveness of pre-reading study and reading exposure on the processi... Read More about Effects of Pre‐Reading Study and Reading Exposure on the Learning and Processing of Collocations.

Eye-tracking reading-while-listening: Challenges and methodological considerations in vocabulary research (2023)
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Conklin, K., & Alotaibi, S. (2023). Eye-tracking reading-while-listening: Challenges and methodological considerations in vocabulary research. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 2(3), Article 100086. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2023.100086

Learners need to know a considerable number of words to function in a second or foreign language. To help increase their word knowledge, learners are encouraged to engage in activities that provide a rich source of vocabulary like listening to music... Read More about Eye-tracking reading-while-listening: Challenges and methodological considerations in vocabulary research.