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Collateralization of the Body in the Central Sahara: On Forms and Effects

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article tracks a transporter along the route linking Tripoli to the Saharan town of Ghadames in post‐2011 Libya, asking what secures an obligation when the institutions that normally underwrite it (offices, courts, recognized names) have receded. I distinguish the debt, the sum owed, from the security pledged to answer for it: what may be
Moad Musbahi
wiley   +1 more source

From accidents to assets—The value pathways of patents for serendipitous inventions

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Firms often celebrate accidental inventions that lead to major breakthroughs, yet little is known about how the value of serendipitous inventions materializes. Using data from 8530 patented inventions across 23 countries, our research shows that these inventions differ from planned R&D outcomes.
Christoph Grimpe, Karin Hoisl, Myriam Mariani, Wolfgang Sofka   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Promoting secure Firearm storage: The role of the media in reporting on unintentional Firearm deaths among children. [PDF]

J Public Health Res
Bordelon A, Corrigan L, Hammig B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Designing for unanticipated uses: How product attributes shape community‐led exaptation

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Users often discover new uses for products that firms may later commercialize, which we call community‐led exaptation. We examine how product attributes shape users' discovery of new functions versus new functionalities. Using 1925 IKEA product hacks, we find that modularity increases the likelihood of new functions.
Shi‐Ying Lim, Tian Heong Chan
wiley   +1 more source

Children's independent mobility in Japan: travelling to, returning from, and playing within local parks. [PDF]

Health Promot Int
Hata TD, Ohyama T, Veitch J, Takagi D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Intimate Spaces on the Open Road: Navigating Access, Trust, and Ethical Boundaries during Field Research with Long Haul Truck Drivers

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Despite its ubiquity, the trucking industry is not well‐understood in social scientific literature. Gathering insight into truckers' worlds is difficult due to the solitary, isolating, and unpredictable nature of the work. An understanding of truckers' work lives and work ideologies is even further limited.
Michael A. Fleming
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of a Nurse-Led Web-Based Fall Prevention Program on Fall Risk and Fear of Falling Among Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. [PDF]

Healthcare (Basel)
Kaynar Demirel NS, Secginli S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal patterns and driving mechanisms of provincial road traffic accidents in China, 2016-2024. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Zhu J, Zheng R, Duan Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Five Decades of Dispute: A Triptych. E. J. Corey

The Chemical Record, EarlyView.
In his 2004 Priestley Medal address, E. J. Corey stated, “On May 4, 1964, I suggested to my colleague R. B. Woodward a simple explanation involving the symmetry of the perturbed (HOMO) molecular orbitals for the stereoselective cyclobutene/1,3‐butadiene and 1,3,5‐hexatriene/cyclohexadiene conversions that provided the basis for the further development ...
Jeffrey I. Seeman
wiley   +1 more source

Nonverbal AI-Based Communication Robot for Staff in Disaster-Affected Care Facilities: Exploratory ABAB Intervention Study. [PDF]

JMIR Form Res
Haba D, Miyashita R, Kondo T, Tatsukawa K, Oohashi F, Kitamura A, Konya C, Sanada H, Matsumoto M.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source