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A Russian Story in the USA: On the Identity of Post-Socialist Immigration

open access: yesOpen Cultural Studies, 2023
This article presents the problem of identity construction among Eastern European immigrants to the USA after so-called “democratic changes.” It is based on the intercultural rather than multicultural approach which considers both the immigrants ...
Anastasova Ekaterina
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Mediating Vulnerability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Mediating Vulnerability examines vulnerability from a range of connected perspectives. It responds to the vulnerability of species, their extinction but also their transformation.

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Using Law to Gut Law: Executive Aggrandizement and Quality of Government Decline in Chávez’s Venezuela

open access: yesSocial Sciences
This study examines the relationship between executive aggrandizement and Quality of Government (QoG) deterioration in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela. Drawing on the framework of autocratic legalism—whereby legal forms are used to hollow out legal protections ...
Jeremy Ko   +2 more
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On the Temporal and Aspectual Value of Modern Eastern Armenian Aorist: A Comparative Perspective

open access: yesArmenian Folia Anglistika, 2014
In this research we study some syntactic and semantic properties of the Modern Eastern Armenian aorist by comparing it to similar verbal forms in English and Italian.
Alessandra Giorgi, Sona Haroutyunian
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Directions for the Reconstruction of the Tax System in Poland – a Growth‑Enhancing Proposal

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica, 2021
The paper aims to present directions for the growth‑enhancing reconstruction of the tax system in Poland. It presents a diagnosis of the main strengths and weaknesses of that system.
Jakub Karnowski, Andrzej Rzońca
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Why small states off er important answers to large questions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Small states are conspicuously absent from mainstream comparative political science. There are a variety of reasons that underpin their marginal position in the established cannon, including their tiny populations, the fact that they are not considered ...
Corbett, Jack   +7 more
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Does Fiscal Devaluation Work for Everyone? Diversified Impact of Fiscal Devaluation on Employment Rates

open access: yesGospodarka Narodowa. The Polish Journal of Economics
The study analyses the effects of fiscal devaluation on employment rates and finds that the significance and magnitude of this impact vary considerably by gender and age. The effect is substantially stronger for men than for women.
Piotr Cizkowicz   +2 more
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BAGH – Comparative Study

open access: yes2019 3rd International Conference on Computing and Communications Technologies (ICCCT), 2019
Process mining is a new emerging research trend over the last decade which focuses on analyzing the processes using event log and data. The raising integration of information systems for the operation of business processes provides the basis for innovative data analysis approaches.
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On divination: an exercise in comparative method

open access: yesScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1999
Some comparative methods aim at establishing universals, others seek human causes that will account for cross-cultural or transhistorical resemblance. The sole aim of the comparative method presented here is to improve our questionnaire.
Jørgen Podemann Sørensen
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Counterspeech encouraging users to adopt the perspective of minority groups reduces hate speech and its amplification on social media

open access: yesScientific Reports
Online intergroup hostility is a pervasive and troubling issue, yet experimental evidence on how to curb it remains scarce. This study examines counterspeech as a user-driven strategy to reduce hate speech.
Gloria Gennaro   +18 more
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