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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
wiley   +1 more source

Genomic Investigations Unveil the Genetic Underpinnings of Environmental Adaptation in African Goat Populations

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
This study integrates genomics and landscape genetics to analyze African goat environmental adaptation. Analyzing 1591 samples, it finds population structure differentiates geographically into four groups, with gene flow between wild Yura goats and North Africans.
Weifeng Peng, Yihua Wang, Yiyuan Zhang, Lei Gao, Lili Wu, Shuping Wang, Yiyang Gao, Wanlu Shi, Kaixin Lu, Rong Deng, Junting Li, Jing Han, Xiaohui Lu, Yujie Liu, Xiaojiao Tang, Yunxia Zhang, Guoyin Li, Li Huang, Mingsheng Yang, Xiaoyan Li   +19 more
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State‐and‐transition simulation models: How can we use them to assess ecosystem condition and support nature markets

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract The world is experiencing a biodiversity crisis. Steep declines in habitat quality and ecosystem services have resulted in interest in markets to help fund ecological restoration. One way that ecological restoration is assessed is through indicators of ecosystem condition, namely, a measurement of how different a landscape is from its ...
James M. Furlaud, Katrina Szetey, Kristen J. Williams, Louis Provencher, Suzanne M. Prober, Anna E. Richards   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The national narrative in Chinese science fiction and the innovative transformation of traditional Chinese culture

Cultures of Science
Chinese science fiction (sci-fi) draws nutrition from traditional Chinese culture to achieve a modern transformation and promote the development of the national narrative in Chinese sci-fi. There are three ways to realise the transformation. First, adapt
Chao Peng
doaj   +1 more source

Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
wiley   +1 more source

James Hogg [PDF]

, 2005
No abstract ...
Bold, Valentina
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Legend Tripping: A Contemporary Legend Casebook [PDF]

Journal of American Folklore, 2020
openaire   +1 more source

The Mahāvastu and the Vinayapiṭaka of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins [PDF]

, 2012
International ...
Tournier, Vincent
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‘Missing persons’: Ancient legacies of human–environment interaction in tropical natural properties inscribed under the 1972 World Heritage Convention

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Cultural and natural values form the core of World Heritage designation. Properties displaying both values, however, comprise a fraction of inscriptions (currently c. 3%) to the World Heritage List. In 1992, when that fraction stood at c. 5%, adoption of the popular ‘cultural landscapes’ category of cultural heritage in 1992 was therefore ...
Ryan J. Rabett
wiley   +1 more source

Lendas urbanas em arquivo: uma relação de suplementaridade

Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada, 2016
Este artigo discute o modo como as chamadas lendas urbanas se inscrevem em um arquivo de narrativas presentes no imaginário social e, pelo mesmo processo, transformam esse arquivo, numa relação de suplementaridade.
Carlos Renato Lopes
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