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THE ACTIVE UNIVERSE [PDF]

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 2011
Active motion is a concept in complex systems theory and was successfully applied to various problems in nonlinear dynamics. Explicit studies for gravitational potentials were missing so far. We interpret the Friedmann equations with cosmological constant as a dynamical system, which can be made "active" in a straightforward way.
Glück, Alexander, Hüffel, Helmuth, Ilijic, Sasa, Kelnhofer, Gerald   +3 more
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Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl, Miri Yemini, Claire Maxwell, Yating Hu, Benjamin Adams, Sarah Bergen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Learning to change the world

Frontline Learning Research
Feeling the urgency of the climate crisis and judging current societal (re)action insufficient, young adults increasingly engage in climate activism. While individual learning is not the objective of climate activism, research has documented that young ...
Larike H. Bronkhorst, Marlon Renes, Dagmar Bon, Noah S. Rookmaaker, Anne van Leest   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

An activity description language for activity recognition [PDF]

2017 International Conference on Internet of Things, Embedded Systems and Communications (IINTEC), 2017
Activity recognition aims at recognizing and understanding the movements, actions, and objectives of mobile objects. These objects can be humans, animals, or simple artefacts. Many important and critical applications such as surveillance or health care require some form of (human) activity recognition.
Sarray, Ines, Ressouche, Annie, Moisan, Sabine, Rigault, Jean-Paul, Gaffé, Daniel   +4 more
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Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
wiley   +1 more source

The Influence of Brand Activism on Consumer Loyalty and Social Change

Society
This study investigates the influence of brand activism on consumer loyalty and perceived social change, with a particular emphasis on the Indonesian consumer context.
Abdul Rahman Arie Wicaksono, Erick Lauren Ray, Bayu Giri Prakosa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Affective dimensions in the information behavior of forcibly displaced people: A literature review. An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This review analyzed 241 scholarly articles published between 2010 and 2025 in information science venues to examine how affect shapes refugees' information behavior during forced migration and to identify additional contextual factors. It identifies seven affective dimensions: anxiety, shame and stigma, grief and loss, frustration, (mis)trust,
Maja Krtalić, Lilach Alon
wiley   +1 more source

Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
wiley   +1 more source

Minority shareholder activism and corporate risk-taking level

International Review of Economics & Finance
Using Chinese A-share listed companies from 2014 to 2023 as the sample, this paper employs fixed-effects models and mediation-effect models to examine the impact of minority shareholder activism on the corporate risk-taking level (CRTL). The results show
Can Yuan, Linqing Liu, Xinchen Liu
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‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
wiley   +1 more source