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Alternative rock music in Yugoslavia in the period between 1980-1991 and its influence on the present music cultures in Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia [PDF]
IASPM Journal, 2014 Doctoral dissertation "Alternative rock music in Yugoslavia in the period between 1980-1991 and its influence on the present musical and cultural live in Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia" has five main chapters: Introduction; First chapter-Theoretical ...
Julijana Zhabeva Papazova
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MotionPyramid: Controllable Motion Synthesis via Stylized Phase Manifolds
Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.Abstract We introduce stylized phase manifolds—a compact, interpretable latent representation that disentangles motion content (e.g. “jumping”, “walking”), the temporal structure (e.g. motion cycle frequency, gait timing), and style (i.e. how the motion is performed). Learned in an unsupervised manner and inherently low‐dimensional, the manifold offers
Jingyuan Li +3 more
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Визуальная теология, 2019 The main issue of the Dutch 17 th century painting as visual material is the correlation between the pictorial content and the verbal interpretation of plots and motives.
Larisa Nikiforova / Лариса Викторовна Никифорова
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Sinicization of Ballet: Guangzhou Ballet company's ballet drama The Banner
Environment-Behaviour Proceedings JournalThis paper investigates the Sinicization of ballet, focusing on Guangzhou Ballet's production of The Banner. The work exemplifies cultural fusion, blending classical Western ballet techniques with Chinese storytelling, revolutionary themes, and Lingnan cultural elements.
Yuanyuan Liu, Mohd Kipli Abdul Rahman
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The capabilities approach has informed policy globally, shifting focus away from traditional economic indicators and toward improving people's freedoms and opportunities to be and do what they value in life. However, there is limited research engaging children in conceptualising and measuring capabilities that are important to them for a ‘good’
Gerard Joseph Abou Jaoude +8 more
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Using the capabilities approach to achieve people‐centered conservation
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Top‐down interventions carried out by state and nonstate institutions to conserve biodiversity and improve the lives of forest‐proximate people (FPP) in the Global South tend to reflect economistic understandings of human well‐being. More progressive and people‐centered conservation projects are guided by normative visions of how the world ...
Arthur Rodrigues +4 more
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Dance, class and the body: a Bourdieusian examination of training trajectories into ballet and contemporary dance [PDF]
, 2014 This article is a result of a small-scale interview-based study that explored the social conditions of ballet and contemporary dance production in the city of Glasgow. This study draws on interviews given by twelve professional dancers and choreographers,
Tsitsou, Lito
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Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Collective action is often treated as a desirable and scalable outcome of participatory initiatives, yet far less attention has been paid to the conditions under which collective agency fails to consolidate. This article examines how collective agency is initiated but ultimately unravels within a grassroots women's initiative in a rural ...
Marta Solórzano‐García +1 more
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Problematising ‘Vulnerability’ in Women's Prisons
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT ‘Vulnerability’ is a commonly used but little understood term in the field of social policy and beyond. The refocusing of our criminal justice system around notions of ‘vulnerability’ has had wide‐reaching consequences which often escape both academic and political attention.
Sarah Waite, Danica Darley
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how an online eikaiwa (English conversation) provider in Japan that employs only female Eastern European (particularly Ukrainian) teachers brands them through objectification. Analysis of textual and visual elements of the provider's website and related media, including videos, demonstrates that the teachers are ...
Misako Tajima
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