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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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Domain-Specific Knowledge and Memory Performance: A Comparison of High- and Low-Aptitude Children [PDF]
, 1989 Two studies compared memory performance and text comprehension of groups that were equivalent on domain-specific knowledge but differed in overall aptitude, to investigate whether prior knowledge about a particular domain or overall aptitude level was ...
Körkel, Joachim +2 more
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Exploring Predictors of Preclinical Performance in Predoctoral Operative Simulation Courses
Journal of Dental Education, EarlyView.
Nicholas DePinto +6 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Frontiers in Language SciencesThere are vast individual differences in heritage bilinguals' linguistic skills. It is not clear, however, to what extent this variation can be attributed to experience, cognitive ability or motivation.
Magdalena Grose-Hodge +3 more
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"Bravest of the brave": the making and re-making of 'the Gurkhas', 1857-2009 [PDF]
This paper explores the history of Gurkha recruiting from the mid-nineteenth century, charting the emergence and subsequent reworkings of a discourse of Nepalese 'martial aptitude.
Rand, Gavin
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How do Astronaut Candidate Profiles differ from Airline Pilot Profile [PDF]
, 2011 Sixteen years after the second Europe-wide astronaut selection campaign, the European Space Agency started the third campaign by putting out a call for new astronauts in 2008.
Maschke, Peter +2 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Work mediated by digital labour platforms is often framed as flexible and autonomous, yet accessing paid tasks commonly requires extensive unpaid effort. Drawing on 65 qualitative interviews with Australian workers on project‐based platforms (including Airtasker, Fiverr and Freelancer), we develop the concept of anticipatory labour: the unpaid,
Brendan Churchill +2 more
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Grade standards in GCSE modern foreign languages [PDF]
, 2008 The present examination system is not based on an aptitude-based conception of comparability and its adoption would create a major threat to public confidence in students’ results.
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Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Technological advancements and, more recently, the COVID‐19 pandemic have accelerated the transition toward hybrid workplaces. Even though the design of appropriate HRM practices is recognized as an important factor in ensuring an effective transition toward hybrid work environments, existing research has offered limited insights into how ...
Sara Bonesso +2 more
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