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BIRACIAL – BLACK? A SURVEY OF LANGUAGE USE AND LANGUAGE ATTITUDES IN POLAND AND GERMANY [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The paper deals with the construction of race from the perspective of cognitive sociolinguistics. The focus is upon the perception of mixed-race people of black and white heritage in Poland and Germany compared to the USA, and its reflection in language ...
Pułaczewska, Hanna
core   +1 more source

Sampling, Mobility, and Anchoring in Small‐Body Sampling Robots: A Comprehensive Review

open access: yesSmartBot, EarlyView.
Small‐body sampling robots are exploration systems that perform contact, sampling, and stable operations on microgravity bodies such as asteroids and comets. The authors review representative robot architectures and key technologies, focusing on the mechanisms, evolution, and coupling of sampling, mobility, and anchoring.
Yurui Shen   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

PRAGMALINGUISTIC MEANS OF THE AUTHOR REPRESENTATION IN POLITICAL MEMOIRS

open access: yesSovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2014
The purpose of the present study was to detect and describe speech strategies and speech tactics represented in the text type “political memoirs”. In particular, the research was based on the pragmatic and linguistic analysis and stylistic interpretation
Elena Anatolyevna Zhuravleva
doaj   +1 more source

50 Years after the Civil Rights Act: The Ongoing Work for Racial Justice in the 21st Century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This report documents the state of civil and human rights, and paints a persuasive picture of just how far the United States still has to go to make racial justice a reality.

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Proxy Assertion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In proxy assertion an individual or group asserts something through a spokesperson. The chapter explains proxy assertion as resting on the assignment of a status role to a person (that of spokesperson) whose utterances acts in virtue of that role have ...
Ludwig, Kirk
core  

The Impact of Financial Reporting Mandates on Labor Unions

open access: yesJournal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Labor unions in the United States are subject to financial reporting mandates. This study examines how these mandates affect unions and their members. Using several regulation‐based empirical designs, we document that more granular reporting requirements adversely affect unions' election outcomes.
QINGKAI DONG, ANTHONY LE
wiley   +1 more source

Priorities of international political activities in US national security strategies

open access: yesАмериканська історія і політика, 2016
The article deals with the basic principles of US contemporary foreign policy, their reflection in the key political document – National Security Strategy.
Natalya Yakovenko, Galyna Piskorska
doaj   +1 more source

The New Section 1202 Tax-Free Business Sale: Congress Rewards Small Businesses That Survived the Great Recession [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
On September 27, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Creating Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (“SBJA”) that contains a temporary amendment to Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) § 1202.
Beckett G. Cantley
core   +1 more source

Fusing Data with Correlations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Many applications rely on Web data and extraction systems to accomplish knowledge-driven tasks. Web information is not curated, so many sources provide inaccurate, or conflicting information. Moreover, extraction systems introduce additional noise to the
Berti-Equille L.   +8 more
core   +2 more sources

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