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Meta-analysis reveals that the effects of precipitation change on soil and litter fauna in forests depend on body size
(Global Change Biology, 2024-05-01)
Anthropogenic climate change is altering precipitation regimes at a global scale. While precipitation changes have been linked to changes in the abundance and diversity of soil and litter invertebrate fauna in forests, ...
Is it just conservation? A typology of Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ roles in conserving biodiversity
(One Earth, 2024-01-01)
As conservation initiatives expand in response to biodiversity loss, there remains limited understanding about what forms of governance and roles for different actors produce the best ecological outcomes. Indigenous peoples’ ...
Sequence effects and speech processing: cognitive load for speaker‑switching within and across accents
(SPRINGER, 2024)
Prior work in speech processing indicates that listening tasks with multiple speakers (as opposed to a single speaker) result in slower and less accurate processing. Notably, the trial-to-trial cognitive demands of switching ...
Is it all about supply? Demand-side effects on the Spanish electricity market following Covid-19 lockdown policies
(Utilities Policy, 2023)
A key characteristic of electricity prices is their sensitivity to changes in supply and demand. In this sense, the Covid-19 lockdown policies modified electricity consumption patterns at both business and household levels, ...
Processing of Synonyms and Homographs in Bilingual and Monolingual Speakers
(UBIQUITY PRESS, 2024)
Bilinguals have long-lasting experience with cross-language double-mappings (i.e., translation equivalents and interlingual homographs (or false friends)). Considering this, we examined whether bilinguals differ from ...
Opportunities and challenges for microbiomics in ecosystem restoration
(Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 2023-12-01)
Microbiomics is the science of characterizing microbial community structure, function, and dynamics. It has great potential to advance our understanding of plant–soil–microbe processes and interaction networks which can ...
Mapping the landscape of water and society research: Promising combinations of compatible and complementary disciplines
(Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2024-03-01)
Coupled human-water systems (CHWS) are diverse and have been studied across a wide variety of disciplines. Integrating multiple disciplinary perspectives on CHWS provides a comprehensive and actionable understanding of ...
Verbal production dynamics and plasticity: functional contributions of language and executive control systems
(OXFORD, 2023)
Bilingual language production requires both language knowledge and language control in order to communicate in a target language. Learning or improving a language in adulthood is an increasingly common undertaking, and ...
Reading speed in subtitling for hearing impaired children: an analysis in Spanish television
(University of Roehampton (London), 2016)
[EN] Reading speed is one of the essential parameters to consider when designing subtitles for a hearing impaired audience. Images, subtitles and spoken dialogue are the three sources of information in a subtitled audiovisual ...
Translating slang for dubbing: a descriptive case study of Jackie Brown (english-spanish)
(Sociedad Española de Lenguas Modernas, 2014)
[EN] The use and creation of slang have been widely studied from linguistic, sociolinguistic and translational points of view. It is a burning field of study, since slang has always been linked to society and its individuals. ...