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Who cut the ribbon? A quantitative analysis of formal opening ceremonies of new plants of multinational corporations in Russia

Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2017
Igor Gurkov
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The Symbolic Efficacy of Plants in Rituals and Socio-Religious Ceremonies in Morocco, Northwest of Africa

Journal of Religious & Theological Information, 2021
Religious ceremonies and practices have long influenced human perceptions and uses of nature. Plants in particular play a prominent role in rituals and socio-religious practices and provide the cultural and historical depth of these relationships ...
N. Chaachouay, L. Zidane
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Opening Ceremonies of International Sports Events: The Other Face of Chinese Soft Power

International Journal of the History of Sport, 2016
D. Delgado
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Ceremony Is Protest, Protest Is Ceremony

2017
At the Wakarusa Wetlands, decades of activism against a proposed four-lane trafficway, now under construction, have blurred the lines between ceremony and protest, turning one into the other in a political and spiritual intervention against the “transit” of the settler state across Indian land.
Soren C. Larsen, Jay T. Johnson, Daniel R. Wildcat   +2 more
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Opening Ceremony

2021 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2021
9:00-9:05 Conference Welcome/Opening Message, 9:05-9:10 CTSoc Welcome Message, 9:10-9:15 IEEE President Congratulatory Speeches, 9:15-9:20 IEEE President-elect Congratulatory Speeches, 9:20-9:25 CTA Welcome Message, 9:25-9:30 Conference ...
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Technical Ceremonies: Rationalization, Opacity, and the Restructuring of Educational Organizations

, 2020
After decades of accountability and market-based reforms in education, school systems are now organizing more around improving teaching and learning. Yet these efforts frequently yield unintended, superficial, or even counterproductive changes at the ...
Maxwell M. Yurkofsky
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Nothing is Out-of-Band: Formal Modeling of Ceremonies

IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium
We develop and explain the design decisions of a framework for the formal specification and analysis of interactions in generalized distributed systems.
Barbara Kordy, S. Radomirovic
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Ceremonial Exchange

2005
For more than a century, anthropologists have studied the economic lives and institutions of people around the world. The results of their research and reflection on economy have generally stayed within the discipline and have not been available in an accessible form to a broader readership. This major reference book is intended to correct this.
Strathern, Andrew, Stewart, Pamela J.
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Kuomboka Ceremony, Nc'wala Traditional Ceremony, Lwindi Gonde Traditional Ceremony

Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa, 2012
(2012). Kuomboka Ceremony, Nc'wala Traditional Ceremony, Lwindi Gonde Traditional Ceremony. Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 86-89.
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‘We Still Wanted That Sense of Occasion’: Traditions and Meaning-Making in Scottish Humanist Marriage Ceremonies

Scottish Affairs, 2018
As a secularising nation in Northern Europe, Scotland has, over the last few decades, experienced a steep decline in religious belonging, church attendance, and beliefs. Ritual participation, which is arguably an understudied dimension of secularisation,
Isabella Kasselstrand
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