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ABSTRACT By issuing requests of one another, we wield what is, on reflection, a remarkable power: to create reasons at will. But how can requesters give us reasons to do what they want, even when they stand in no relation of authority over us? And what would be lost if we saw requests as communicating the existence of pre‐existing reasons, rather than ...
Milan Mossé
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ABSTRACT Background Although migrants are recognised as heterogeneous, research often emphasises origin over receiving‐context experiences. Objectives We investigated maternal risk factors and perinatal outcomes by duration of residence in Australia, stratified by region of birth.
Natalie Holowko +5 more
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“I Paid A Bribe”—Lessons and Insights From Crowdsourced Corruption Reporting in India
ABSTRACT Preventing and reducing corruption has proven to be an enormous challenge. An important step in this process is to produce and use good metrics to identify where anti‐corruption resources would be most beneficial. Most measures of corruption, however, rely on surveys of perceptions or bribery incidence.
Ina Kubbe +2 more
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ABSTRACT Laws often contain linguistically complex features that increase cognitive processing demands and weaken comprehension. We extend this argument to bureaucratic decision‐making by proposing that reduced legal clarity decreases the consistency of administrative decisions.
Joakim Nilsson, Marina Nistotskaya
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Follow Me Into Math: Near‐Peer Influencers Take the Stage
ABSTRACT Young people like to be entertained, and to entertain others. What if students were to invest enough of their time and effort into learning topics from our mathematics courses to become experts in the eyes of their peers? In this study we positioned college students and high school students as mathematical performers on the stage in front of ...
Aaron T. Wilson +3 more
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Abstract Mushrooms are a ubiquitous and essential component in our biological environment and have been of interest to humans around the globe for millennia. Knowledge about mushrooms represents a prime example of cumulative culture, one of the key processes in human evolution.
Andrea Bender, Åge Oterhals
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War, Trauma and Diasporic Identity in Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue
ABSTRACT Japan's involvement in the Second World War offers provocative narrative material for authors who write about the cultural politics of race under wartime conditions, such as the internment experience of Japanese Americans in the United States and the mass killings of Chinese (Operation Sook Ching), suspected of anti‐Japanese sentiments in ...
Walter S. H. Lim
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English Worldwide and Linguistic Justice: Past and Present
ABSTRACT This opening article of the special issue “English worldwide and linguistic justice” starts from the premise that more interdisciplinary work is needed that bridges sociolinguistic research with linguistic justice theories to provide deeper, more nuanced understandings of the position and functions of English around the world today.
Josep Soler, Thomas Ricento
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Abstract Since poorer countries are especially vulnerable to shocks and disruptions, examining practices within their higher education institutions is pertinent to identify those which effectively prepare graduates to address increasing challenges in their work and communities.
Diana J. Pritchard, Daniel Phillips
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ABSTRACT The present study examined neurocognitive differences in visual word processing between children with reading difficulties (RD) and chronological‐age‐matched controls (CA) using event‐related potentials (ERPs) during a lexical decision task. Participants were Grade 3 and Grade 6 children (ages 7.6–12.1 years) who were required to discriminate ...
A. Fella +2 more
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