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Investing Aura: Making Value at an Emirati Art Center
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article examines the politics and processes of establishing value for artworks, highlighting the continued belief in Walter Benjamin's idea of aura and describing the value aura generates as “auratic value.” Focusing on an artist residency program in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during the country's arts boom, I analyze contestations ...
Beth Derderian
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Plagiarism and Cheating: A Mixed Methods Study of Student Academic Dishonesty [PDF]
, 2009 This thesis was undertaken to fulfil the requirements of a Master's degree in Social Science Research and as such its main intention is to develop and demonstrate skill and competency by conducting a mixed methods research study.
Guthrie, Claire Lynette
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Adding Realism to Theories of Taxpayer Compliance
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Explaining why people pay taxes has not been a central focus in the many important contributions of Jim Cox. Even so, I argue here that his work has greatly affected the way that we think about taxpayer compliance, by adding both directly and indirectly much needed realism to the theories and the applications of compliance. These contributions
James Alm
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An Outline of a Theory of Play
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
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, 1998 The subject of this study was academic cheating among college students. Academic cheating has been described as both epidemic and endemic. It is considered a significant problem because it is occurring on all college campuses with high frequency and ...
Walls, Jeffrey L.
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Despite its ubiquity, the trucking industry is not well‐understood in social scientific literature. Gathering insight into truckers' worlds is difficult due to the solitary, isolating, and unpredictable nature of the work. An understanding of truckers' work lives and work ideologies is even further limited.
Michael A. Fleming
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Trends in Higher EducationGenerative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has intensified concerns about academic integrity, yet little is known about discrepancies between students’ self-reported frequencies in AI-assisted academic cheating and the frequencies they attribute to their
Hanh Van Nguyen, Mai Thuy Thi Duong
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Economics of export subsidies under costly and imperfect enforcement [PDF]
The present paper builds on the published literature on agricultural policy analysis under costly and imperfect enforcement by introducing enforcement costs and misrepresentation into the economic analysis of export subsidies.
Giannakas, Konstantinos
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Five Decades of Dispute: A Triptych. E. J. Corey
The Chemical Record, EarlyView.In his 2004 Priestley Medal address, E. J. Corey stated, “On May 4, 1964, I suggested to my colleague R. B. Woodward a simple explanation involving the symmetry of the perturbed (HOMO) molecular orbitals for the stereoselective cyclobutene/1,3‐butadiene and 1,3,5‐hexatriene/cyclohexadiene conversions that provided the basis for the further development ...
Jeffrey I. Seeman
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Interactive Videos in Multimodal Listening Assessments: Examining Language Learners' Perspectives
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The academic success of international students who speak English as a second language (L2) hinges on their ability to effectively communicate and comprehend information in English, which requires well‐developed listening skills. Given that real‐world listening mostly involves processing both auditory and visual information, incorporating ...
Shanshan He, Ruslan Suvorov
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