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Decorating the “Christmas Tree” [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, 2021
Abstract Contemporary peacekeeping operations carry out many disparate tasks, which has triggered a debate about “Christmas Tree mandates.” Did the UN Secretariat or the UN Security Council drive this expansion? Using original data on nineteen UN peacekeeping missions, 1998–2014, this article compares peacekeeping tasks recommended by the ...
Kseniya Oksamytna, Magnus Lundgren
openaire   +2 more sources

WHO DESTROYS OUR SPIRITUAL CHRISTMAS? [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2018
One of the greatest religious celebrations of the Christian world is Christmas whose significance is so well-known. In recent years, Christmas preparations have begun to take place long before the great holiday, even in October.
Nela Steliac, Dumitru Steliac
doaj  

State Highlights 12/16/1953 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1953
This is the student newspaper from Western State High School, the high school that was on the campus of Western Michigan University, then called State Highlights, in ...
, Western State High School
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Spartan Daily, December 7, 1945 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1943
Volume 34, Issue 44https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/3674/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
core   +10 more sources

A call to ban non-essential microplastics used in cosmetics, festival and holiday decorations

open access: yesCambridge Prisms: Plastics
Festivities, holidays and celebrations are often associated with unsustainability and high environmental impact. Examples include unsustainable overconsumption and waste during Christmas, Ramadan and during the Chinese New Years celebrations among many ...
Sara A.M. Silva   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Intangible Heritage and Its Associative Objects as Exemplified by the Materiality of the Portable Material Culture of German Christmas Markets

open access: yesHeritage
Many aspects of intangible cultural heritage have associated objects of material culture that augment or enable aspects of intangible heritage to be exercised or emphasized.
Dirk H. R. Spennemann
doaj   +1 more source

Don't Worry About Her; Intersectionality, and the Role of Systems and Structures in the Embodied Experiences of Young Women's Use of Violence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Systems and structures designed to protect and support young people, specifically (in this paper) young women, are ironically the same systems that maintain gender disparity. Consequently, this has influenced the embodied identities of young women who experience and use violence. Such systemic and structural intersectionality has impacted upon
Louise Rak   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ionogel Actuators: A Review

open access: yesSmartBot, EarlyView.
Ionogels dynamically and functionally couple ionic liquids with polymer networks, enabling multiscale programmable deformation and motion under electrical, magnetic, optical, thermal, humidity, and chemical stimuli. This article systematically elucidates the constituent components, structural design, and multiscale actuation mechanisms of ionogel ...
Dezhou Cao   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

State Highlights 12/17/1952 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1952
This is the student newspaper from Western State High School, the high school that was on the campus of Western Michigan University, then called State Highlights, in 1952.
, Western State High School
core   +1 more source

Embedded Interactions and Selective Disclosure: Network Effects on Conversations aboard Skylab

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How do absent others influence our interactions? We argue in this paper that interactions are embedded within networks formed by chains of specific relationships between known third parties. The anticipation of future interactions with external others conditions our interpretation of the current situation and affects our behavior in the interaction. We
Michael Schultz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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