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Smartphone chronic gaming consumption and positive coping practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Purpose: Chronic consumption practice has been greatly accelerated by mobile, interactive and smartphone gaming technology devices. This study explores how chronic consumption of smartphone gaming produces positive coping practice.
de Kervenoael, Ronan   +3 more
core   +4 more sources

Promotion of leaf degradation by earthworms under laboratory conditions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Organic materials were applied to leaves from organic apple trees. Then, leaves were fed to earthworms in a laboratory culture. The objective was to select materials which promote leaf degradation by earthworms and consequently reduce the inoculum ...
de Jager, Anton   +2 more
core  

Urban football narratives and the colonial process in Lourenço Marques [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Support for Portuguese football teams, in Mozambique as well as in other former Portuguese colonies, could be interpreted either as a sign of the importance of a cultural colonial heritage in Africa or as a symbol of a perverse and neo-colonial ...
Alegi Peter.   +20 more
core   +1 more source

Pleasure, profit and pain: Alcohol in New Zealand and the contemporary culture of intoxication [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This book details the rich, complex and often contested role of alcohol in New Zealand society. It explores the three fundamental alcohol rights that continue to fight for dominance of the national drinking culture: the rights of individual drinkers to ...
Campbell, Maxine M.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Social Status and Cultural Consumption

open access: yes, 2010
How does cultural hierarchy relate to social hierarchy? Do the more advantaged consume 'high' culture, while the less advantaged consume popular culture? Or has cultural consumption in contemporary societies become individualised to such a degree that there is no longer any social basis for cultural consumption?
Chan, T   +11 more
openaire   +1 more source

Sustainable production systems for organic apple production [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Organic apples are often sold for fresh consumption and therefore have to obtain high quality requirements. The fruits must obtain the right size and be undamaged without important infections of pest and diseases.
Lindhard Pedersen, Hanne
core  

Controlling service work: An ambiguous accomplishment between employees, management and customers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In order to understand the control of service work, most service literature has focused on its production while treating the customer as secondary. The consumption literature emphasizes the customer’s role but lacks empirical evidence for its claims ...
Grilo, Isabel   +2 more
core   +5 more sources

The Construction of the Health Consumer: Discourse, Reality and the New Media

open access: yes4. Boyut Medya ve Kültürel Çalışmalar Dergisi
The aim of this paper is to discuss the impact the healthism discourse being transmitted through new media has on creating social reality in the construction of the health consumer.
Esma Gültüvin Gür Omay
doaj   +1 more source

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