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Sports Performance and Shaping International Image of a China: Towards Beijing 2008 Olympic Games [PDF]

, 2017
China is a country that has been using sport in order to reach political goals for many years. Lately such political exploitation of sport is directed at shaping the desirable international image of this country.
Kobierecki, Michał Marcin
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One questionnaire—Two points in time: Has plant species knowledge of laypeople changed over a period of 20 years?

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Concern has been raised that in recent decades knowledge of plant species has severely declined in western countries. However, in the absence of regularly repeated and standardized surveys, no reliable statement can be made as to whether plant species knowledge has actually declined in recent decades.
Petra Lindemann‐Matthies, Theresa Gellesch, Diethart Matthies   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

À la Recherche de Yankee Art

Transatlantica, 2015
In 1938 the Museum of Modern Art organized a US government-funded, multi-disciplinary exhibition in Paris, entitled “Three Centuries of American Art.” In this paper I explore the geopolitical, aesthetic and cultural dimensions of the exhibition as an ...
Dimitrios S. Latsis
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When invasions go unnoticed: Public perception of the freshwater jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii in Europe

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Biological invasions are a major driver of biodiversity loss, yet inconspicuous or “cryptic” species often escape detection and public awareness, limiting management responses. We investigated the freshwater jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii, likely native to China and now present on six continents, through a 22‐month multilingual online survey
Guillaume Marchessaux, Kristína Slovák Švolíková, Barbora Števove, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Daniela Giannetto, Cristina Preda, Belma Kalamujić Stroil, Maciej K. Mańko, András Abonyi, Álmos Becz, Massimo Morpurgo, Evgeny A. Pakhomov, Levan Mumladze, Mar Bosch‐Belmar, Aino Hosia, Patricia Ventura, Jamileh Javidpour, Florian Lüskow   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Postwar Cultural Diplomacy: V&A Contributions to Loan Exhibitions in the United States, 1945-1947

Museum, Materials and Discussions
This article examines the Victoria and Albert Museum’s (V&A) contributions to three loan exhibitions of British art staged in North America (1945-1947).
Laura Elliott
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Unmanned Aerial Systems for Corrosion Detection: Multi‐Sensor Technologies, Challenges, and Opportunities for Next‐Generation Inspection

Quality and Reliability Engineering International, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Corrosion remains a critical threat to the integrity and service life of infrastructure in industries such as oil, gas, construction, renewable energy, and transportation. Traditional inspection methods, being labor‐intensive, hazardous, and often subjective, fall short in addressing modern inspection demands.
Alhossein Alharbi, Yunes Alqudsi, Alhasan Ali Alharbi, Mohammed Basheer Mohiuddin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beggars as Rational Choosers

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT American municipalities increasingly regulate panhandling. That regulation is controversial. The determinants of panhandling activeness are unknown, and it is doubted whether panhandling activity responds rationally to incentives. To shed light on these issues, we collect data on hundreds of panhandlers and the passersby they solicit at ...
Peter T. Leeson, R. August Hardy, Paola A. Suarez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Innovations in Public Diplomacy | Inovações em Diplomacia Pública

Mural Internacional, 2018
From the author´s professional experience, the article discusses alternative ways to think about cultural diplomacy, with a focus not only in the spread of the culture of the native country of the diplomat, but also of the nation where he is serving ...
Abhay Kumar
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Formation of Distance‐Based Orientation: Political Identity through Relational Positioning in Israel

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Distance‐based orientation describes how pejorative labels may serve as anchor points for political identity. Existing research on political labeling has largely emphasized stigmatization, overlooking how labels may acquire durability and orienting capacity without losing pejorative force. Drawing on publicly circulating discourse, we trace positioning
Tammar Friedman, Asaf Saadon
wiley   +1 more source

Data privacy model using blockchain reinforcement federated learning approach for scalable internet of medical things

CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has typical advancements in the healthcare sector with rapid potential proof for decentralised communication systems that have been applied for collecting and monitoring COVID‐19 patient data. Machine Learning algorithms typically use the risk score of each patient based on risk factors, which could help ...
Chandramohan Dhasaratha, Mohammad Kamrul Hasan, Shayla Islam, Shailesh Khapre, Salwani Abdullah, Taher M. Ghazal, Ahmed Ibrahim Alzahrani, Nasser Alalwan, Nguyen Vo, Md Akhtaruzzaman   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source