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Introducing Epigenetics Into Secondary School Classrooms—An Educational Design Study

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although epigenetics represents an emerging field of biological research with a potentially large influence on society as well as conceptual implications on how genetics is understood, it is often not a part of the biology education provided at secondary schools.
Karin Thörne, Niklas Gericke, Birgitta Mc Ewen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Sustainability and CO2 Emissions in Mexico: Unveiling the Roles of Fiscal Policy, Digital Innovation, and Renewable Energy Transitions

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Addressing environmental degradation has become a pressing priority in the era of global sustainability. As carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions continue to escalate—particularly in emerging economies—identifying effective policy and technological pathways for emissions reduction is essential.
Sohidul Islam, Md. Yousuf, Bablu Kumar Dhar, Reday Chandra Bhowmik, Md. Mustaqim Roshid, Shaharier Arafat Sumon   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Activism risk and corporate self‐regulation: Investigating how anti‐SLAPP laws impact firms' institutional corporate social performance

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This research investigates how firms attempt to preempt activism before it mobilizes into an active threat. Employing a difference‐in‐differences design, we examine the quasi‐exogenous enactments of laws that prevent Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (anti‐SLAPP laws) in the United States.
Zhiyan Wu, Garry Bruton, Ryan Krause
wiley   +1 more source

Accounting for Friendlessness: Stigma and the Quest for an Honorable Self

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How do people who identify as friendless make sense of their condition in a moment when friendship is extolled for the support and satisfaction it offers? This article draws on interviews with 21 adults in an Atlantic Canadian city. We argue that our interviewees were rarely at ease with their friendlessness and were at pains to recover an honorable ...
Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory
wiley   +1 more source

A comparison of thermal drones and camera trap population estimates for Sitka black‐tailed deer in Alaska

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
One of the most difficult challenges for wildlife managers is reliably estimating wildlife populations. Camera traps combined with spatial capture–recapture (SCR) models are a popular tool for population estimation. They have limitations, however, including long data processing times.
Shannon P. Finnegan, Amael Hinojo, Sarah Monod, William A. Wall, Peter Olsen, Maximilian L. Allen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hair as sensory skin: sensitive bodies, ritual shaving, and the maintenance of bodily boundaries in Hindu Suriname De la pilosité comme peau sensorielle : corps sensibles, rasage rituel et maintien des limites du corps chez les hindous du Surinam

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Hair is an integral part of the skin's interface and has sensory capacity. It actively contributes to processes of bodily materialization and facilitates transactional exchange with other social actors and environments, particularly regarding energies and vibrations that can be perceived as subtle matter.
Sinah Theres Kloß
wiley   +1 more source

‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
wiley   +1 more source

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Managing Risk & Seeking Dignity: Working‐Class Perceptions of University in London, Rochdale & Morecambe

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how working‐class young people enroled at college in London, Rochdale and Morecambe perceive of university. It argues that university represents a great risk, associated with high levels of debt, which does deter some students, but at the same time, university is imagined as a meaningful vehicle for dignity and respect ...
Amit Singh
wiley   +1 more source

A Structural Model of Mortgage Offset Accounts in the Australian Housing Market*

Economic Record, EarlyView.
I study a novel institutional feature of Australian housing markets: the widespread use of mortgage offset accounts. These accounts reduce mortgage interest costs and increase mortgage liquidity. I build a heterogeneous agent life‐cycle model of the Australian housing market to study who uses and benefits from these mortgage products.
James Graham
wiley   +1 more source