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The Pleasure and Pain in Taboo Exploitation by Allan, Keith

“…The taboo exploitation examined in this essay is swearing. Swearing intersects in complex ways with the giving and taking of pleasure and concomitantly coping…”
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Truth is what the context makes of it by Allan, Keith

“…This essay shows that truth cannot be divorced from human experience and an individual’s world view, his or her weltanschauung. There exist different…”
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Maternal vitamin D and E intakes during pregnancy are associated with asthma in children by Allan, Keith M, Prabhu, Nanda, Craig, Leone C A, McNeill, Geraldine, Kirby, Bradley, McLay, James, Helms, Peter J, Ayres, Jon G, Seaton, Anthony, Turner, Stephen W, Devereux, Graham

“…Are maternal vitamin D and E intakes during pregnancy associated with asthma in 10-year-old children? In a longitudinal study of 1924 children born to women…”
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Maternal obesity during pregnancy and premature mortality from cardiovascular event in adult offspring: follow-up of 1 323 275 person years by Reynolds, Rebecca M, Allan, Keith M, Raja, Edwin A, Bhattacharya, Sohinee, McNeill, Geraldine, Hannaford, Philip C, Sarwar, Nadeem, Lee, Amanda J, Bhattacharya, Siladitya, Norman, Jane E

“…Objectives To determine whether maternal obesity during pregnancy is associated with increased mortality from cardiovascular events in adult offspring. Design…”
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Water Quality Indicators in Three Surface Hydraulic Connection Conditions in Tropical Floodplain Lakes by Salcedo, Miguel Ángel, Cruz-Ramírez, Allan Keith, Sánchez, Alberto J., Álvarez-Pliego, Nicolás, Florido, Rosa, Ruiz-Carrera, Violeta, Morales-Cuetos, Sara Susana

“…Water quality indicators have been tied to natural or man-made surface hydraulic connection (SHC) conditions. Among these, temporally connected lakes (TCL) are…”
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Pragmatics in language change and lexical creativity by Allan, Keith

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"Imagined Territory: The Republic of China's 1955 Veto of Mongolian Membership in the United Nations" by Clark II, Keith Allan

“…In 1955, Jiang Tingfu, representing the Republic of China (roc), vetoed Mongolia's entry into the United Nations. In the 26 years the roc represented China in…”
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'The Best Architect Designed This Church': Definite Descriptions in Default Semantics by Allan, Keith

“…Jaszczolt examines the default semantic analysis of 'the best architect designed this church', uttered when standing in front of El Temple de la Sagrada…”
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X-phemism and creativity by Allan, Keith

“…X-phemism motivates language change by promoting new expressions, or new meanings for old expressions, and causing some existing vocabulary to be abandoned…”
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Vitamin C deficiency in cancer patients by Mayland, Catriona R, Bennett, Michael I, Allan, Keith

“…Purpose: To assess the prevalence of vitamin C deficiency within a group of hospice patients. To assess the relationship between plasma vitamin C, dietary…”
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Diet and Asthma: Nutrition Implications from Prevention to Treatment by Allan, Keith, MSc, Devereux, Graham, MD, PhD

“…Abstract Asthma is characterized by lung airway inflammation initiated and perpetuated by an inappropriate immune response, increased airway responsiveness,…”
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Defining China: Beijing, Taipei, and the United Nations' "China Seat," 1949–1992 by Clark, Keith Allan

“…After the Second World War, two states claimed to represent the same nation: “China.” This work examines how the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Communist Party of…”
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The International Education Quotations Encyclopaedia by Noble, Keith Allan

“…This book contains nearly 2,700 quotations related to education in all its traditional and non-traditional forms and spanning over 3,000 years. It is organized…”
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When is a slur not a slur? The use of nigger in ‘Pulp Fiction’ by Allan, Keith

“…Slurs are defined and shown to be determined by context of use and not lexical form. It has been proposed that words like nigger should be eradicated from the…”
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Contextual determinants on the meaning of the N word by Allan, Keith

“…Use of the word nigger is very often castigated as slurring the referent, but this ignores the context of use. For many people the word itself is a slur no…”
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Changing Doctoral Degrees: An International Perspective by Noble, Keith Allan

“…This book examines the origin and development of doctoral degrees and offers recommendations for the improvement of doctoral programs and degrees. It discusses…”
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Pragmatics in language change and lexical creativity by Allan, Keith

“…This essay examines language change and linguistic creativity as revealed by remodelling, especially as a source for euphemisms and euphemistic dysphemisms and…”
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The connotations of English colour terms: Colour-based X-phemisms by Allan, Keith

“…This paper investigates the connotations of English colour terms with particular attention to figurative uses of black, white, grey, brown, yellow, red, green,…”
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The pragmatics of connotation by Allan, Keith

“…The connotations of a language expression are pragmatic effects that arise from encyclopaedic knowledge about its denotation (or reference) and also from…”
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Molecular interactions in composite wheat starch-Mesona chinensis polysaccharide gels: Rheological, textural, microstructural and retrogradation properties by Yuris, Anynda, Matia-Merino, Lara, Hardacre, Allan Keith, Hindmarsh, Jason, Goh, Kelvin Kim Tha

“…Composite Mesona chinensis polysaccharide (MCP) and wheat starch gels were studied using solid-state NMR, whereby close proximity (5 Å) between MCP and glucan…”
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