International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article investigates the nature, effectiveness, and implications of English private tutoring (EPT) among Grade 11 students in rural Kazakhstan. Drawing on survey responses from 160 students within a larger sample of 740, the study examines participation patterns, motivations, perceived benefits, and the financial and social costs ...
Anas Hajar, Mehmet Karakus
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'Climate change concerns human survival…and justice in our international community': A corpus-based positive discourse analysis (PDA) of the largest developing nation's global involve/engagement discourses (re)told in interpreting. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Gu C.
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The Role of Union Legitimacy and Identity in Shaping Strategic Choice
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores how union legitimacy and identity shape union strategies. It highlights that while union identity is key to understanding strategic variation, legitimacy also plays a crucial role as unions must continuously earn and maintain it with various constituencies.
Geneviève Coderre‐LaPalme +1 more
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Community-Aware Social Community Recommendation
Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge ManagementSocial recommendation, which seeks to leverage social ties among users to alleviate the sparsity issue of user-item interactions, has emerged as a popular technique for elevating personalized services in recommender systems. Despite being effective, existing social recommendation models are mainly devised for recommending regular items such as blogs ...
Runhao Jiang, Renchi Yang, Wenqing Lin
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Emerging subdisciplines in ethnology and anthropology of Serbia: research trends at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. [PDF]
Int J Anthropol Ethnol, 2023 Vučinić Nešković V.
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The inequality curse: constraints and political discretion [PDF]
We live in an unjust world characterized by economic inequality. No liberaltheory of justice is able to justify it. Inequality is not “solved” with equality ofopportunity or meritocracy. Nor by the socialist and republican critique.
Pereira, Luiz Carlos Bresser
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The New 'Hidden Abode': Reflections on Value and Labour in the New Economy [PDF]
, 2009 This paper engages with the works of Autonomist Marxists, such as Hardt, Negri and Arvidsson, who have argued that the so-called ‘new economy’, which is characterized by a new importance of immaterial labour, knowledge and processes of consumption, gives
Boehm, Steffen, Land, Christopher
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Consigning Injustice to History with Political Apologies
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Failures to remember the past properly can constitute a range of different wrongs. In this article, we identify a novel kind of wrong that often occurs through political apologies: consigning an injustice to history. Consigning acknowledges that a historical injustice took place but denies that it has any ongoing relevance for the present ...
Alfred Archer, Benjamin Matheson
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates how mainstream Europarties utilise social media to communicate with the public. According to EU law, Europarties are expected to strengthen the EU's legitimacy, mainly by fostering European political awareness and facilitating civic engagement.
Stefano Greco, Tapio Raunio
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The revelations of Q. Dissemination and resonance of the QAnon conspiracy theory among US Evangelical Christians and the role of the Covid-19 crisis. [PDF]
Z Relig Ges Polit, 2023 Beyer H, Herrberg N.
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