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Follow Me Into Math: Near‐Peer Influencers Take the Stage
ABSTRACT Young people like to be entertained, and to entertain others. What if students were to invest enough of their time and effort into learning topics from our mathematics courses to become experts in the eyes of their peers? In this study we positioned college students and high school students as mathematical performers on the stage in front of ...
Aaron T. Wilson +3 more
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Kinship and reproduction: A perspective of the Akha in Laos
Abstract Drawing on fieldwork among the Akha people in Phongsaly District, Phongsaly Province, northern Laos, this paper examines Akha patrilineal kinship and its links to reproduction. The Akha people's reproductive decisions and behaviours are shaped by patrilineality, ancestral connections and cultural–spiritual perceptions of reproduction, which ...
Vanly Lorkuangming
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Cross-cultural design in costume: case study on totemic symbols of China and Thailand
Cross-cultural design has emerged as a pivotal domain of significance within the context of globalization. In the field of cross-cultural design, designers are tasked with addressing user requirements and identity characteristic contexts across diverse ...
Yixin Zou +3 more
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Address Terms in Communication Between Fashion Companies and Their Customers on Instagram
ABSTRACT This article investigates the ways in which three global fashion brands, Princess Polly (Australia), Adore Me (United States) and Cider (China), address customers in their Instagram comments and captions during a 3‐month period in 2022. The analysis focuses on positive politeness markers such as the use of first names, nicknames and friendship/
Minna Nevala, Hanna Limatius
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ABSTRACT This article develops a relational approach to human mobility by integrating internal and international migration into a single analytical framework. Addressing the persistent fragmentation in migration studies, it explores how territorial belonging is constructed through narrative, visual and material practices in different contexts of ...
Lucía Martín Ramis +3 more
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The Representation of Women as the Source of Evil: The Evolution of the Witch Figure
This text presents a sociological approach to the historical role that the figure of the witch has played and continues to play. Omnipresent in mythology and art, it is hardly surprising that fashion and cinema have drawn upon her as both a source of ...
Andrea Fernández Pastor
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ABSTRACT Living with a chronic health condition (CHC) can involve sustained exposure to uncertainty, bodily threat and disruption to identity, relationships and anticipated life trajectories. Although a substantial evidence base exists for psychological interventions in long‐term illness, theoretical accounts remain fragmented across modalities and ...
Liza Morton
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Contemporary Significance and Design Expression of Qiang Goat-skin Vest
ObjectiveAs a significant material legacy of Qiang nomadic civilization, the goat-skin vest carries profound ethnic memory and spiritual beliefs. However, amid social transformation and modernization, its traditional production techniques face a severe ...
Xin ZHANG +4 more
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De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)
Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
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Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
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