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Conditional Support, Persistent Distrust: South Korean Attitudes Toward Denuclearization Negotiations with North Korea

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
For populations living under persistent nuclear threat, such as South Korea, denuclearization represents a direct pathway to peace. Yet the conditions under which South Koreans support denuclearization negotiations with North Korea remain underexplored ...
Hye-Sung Kim
doaj   +1 more source

Workplace Pollution: Nuclear Safety, Ethics, and the Exploitation--Avoidance Argument [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The author reviews evidence of poor worker health and safety practices in United States Department of Energy nuclear facilities in contending that less protective standards for workplace hazards constitute an environmental injustice not rectified by a ...
Shrader-Frechette, Kristin
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Integrative taxonomy supports DNA barcoding in revealing an abundant cryptic species in the United States Coastal Plain

open access: yesJournal of Systematics and Evolution, EarlyView.
We present the most densely sampled phylogeny of Carex section Lupulinae to date (107 specimens) and describe herein a new cryptic species for science from the southern United States, which is locally abundant and found in well‐explored and densely populated areas. Combining DNA sequences with morphometric data obtained from 299 samples, we Demonstrate
Étienne Lacroix‐Carignan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
wiley   +1 more source

The differential proteomic response to ischemic stroke in appalachian subjects treated with mechanical thrombectomy

open access: yesJournal of Neuroinflammation
Introduction The Appalachia region of North America is known to have significant health disparities, specifically, worse risk factors and outcomes for stroke. Appalachians are more likely to have comorbidities related to stroke, such as diabetes, obesity,
Christopher J. McLouth   +12 more
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Out for Change: Racial and Economic Justice Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Communities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This research report identifies the range and complexity of issues faced by low-income LGBT people and LGBT people of color, including poverty and economic hardship, homelessness, the criminal justice system, violence and discrimination, and immigrant ...
Marcia M. Gallo, Surina Khan
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Other People's Money: Political Embeddedness on Pension Boards, Alternative Assets and Investment Fees

open access: yesPublic Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract State‐administered pension plans report paying roughly $20 billion each year in fees to external asset managers, much of it for high‐cost, high‐risk “alternative” assets such as private equity and hedge funds. These outcomes involve trillions in pension investments that affect the retirement security of millions of public sector workers and ...
Jeffrey C. Diebold, Cody R. Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Bricking the Church

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2014
Robert Morgan reads \"Bricking the Church\" in Zirconia, North Carolina, at Green River Baptist Church. Morgan\'s poem traces the fraught lineage of the church\'s architecture, embeddedness, and modernization.
doaj   +1 more source

Discursive Power, Civilian Agency, Wartime Duress, and Resilience: Letters to the Authorities in the Blockade of Leningrad

open access: yesThe Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract How did World War II affect the nature and resilience of Soviet institutions and authority, especially in the extreme case of the Blockade of Leningrad? During the Blockade, Leningraders acted with great agency by engaging in the shadow trade of food and shadow talk for information and community in order to survive.
Jeffrey K. Hass, Nikita A. Lomagin
wiley   +1 more source

AGRICULTURE IN THE APPALACHIAN REGION: 1965-2000 [PDF]

open access: yes
Revised version of a paper presented at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting in Fort Worth, Texas, January 28-31, 2001Community/Rural/Urban Development,
Colyer, Dale
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