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Unexpected Encounters in Island Worlds: Interactions Between ROC/Taiwan Fishers and Chinese Diaspora Communities in the 20th‐Century Pacific

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Researchers have examined how the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) cultivated relations with Chinese diaspora communities to secure recognition of their government as the true homeland of the Chinese people. However, less attention has been paid to how accidental and contingent encounters between communities ...
Jess Marinaccio
wiley   +1 more source

INTERNATIONALIZATION OF EDUCATION AS HIGH-PRIORITY ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIVERSITY

open access: yesВысшее образование в России, 2016
This article considers different aspects in building the export policy of educational services in the global education market and the education of international students in Russian universities.
Anton N. Grigoriev, Georgy V. Korshunov
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Demographic Situations and Development Programs in the Russian Far East and Zabaikalye [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper describes population problems involved in the Russian Far East and Zabaikalye regions, and the nation as a whole. According to the analysis conducted by the author no notable population growth will emerge in the near future, therefore ...
Kumo, Kazuhiro
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Epistemic authenticity

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
Abstract There are better and worse ways to acquire epistemic virtues and more generally to be disposed to change or maintain one's epistemic dispositions over time. This is a dimension along which one might be better or worse as an epistemic agent that, we argue, cannot be explained with reference to current normative categories in epistemology but ...
Laura Frances Callahan, Michael C. Rea
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: Sylvia, a New Zealander [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Sylvia Ashton-Warner had an intensely ambivalent relationship with the land of her birth. Despite receiving many accolades in New Zealand – including the country’s major literary award – she claimed to have been rejected and persecuted, and regularly ...
Jones, Alison, Middleton, Sue
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OCTOBER 28, 1918 AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE ORIGIN OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN HISTORY TEXTBOOKS OF THE CZECHS’ NEIGHBOURS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
October 28, 1918 represents one of the most important milestones of the Czech collective memory. Th e aim of the study is to capture the main traits of the explanatory refl ection of the events related to the formation of the fi rst Czechoslovak Republic
Gracová, Blažena, Labischová, Denisa
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The Compatriot Win Effect and Behavioural Biases in Lottery Markets

open access: yesOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents evidence to support the compatriot win effect as a behavioural bias in lottery demand. We exploit the quasi‐random assignment of the jackpot prize across provinces in the Christmas draw of the Spanish National Lottery to examine whether lottery sales increase in jackpot‐winning provinces in subsequent draws.
David Boto‐García   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Circassians in USSR and Their Ties with the Diasporas Abroad

open access: yesМеждународная аналитика, 2015
The proposed article is devoted to issues related to the position of the Circassians in the Soviet Union and their relations with compatriots abroad. Special attention is paid to the activities of the Association for Relations with Compatriots Abroad ...
E. D. Eshba
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Efficient and Inefficient Welfare States [PDF]

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This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens.
Algan, Yann   +2 more
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