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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this essay I reveal contested common infrastructures in the interplay between vanishing public infrastructures in Venice and lack of care by governmental actors in a city with a shrinking number of inhabitants. I examine care and commodified public infrastructures in heritage cities facing mass tourism and climate change effects by zooming ...
Cornelia Dlabaja
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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A study of the cruise industry in Singapore
, 1997 81 p.This report gives a study of the cruise industry in Singapore. We see growth in this industry. The growth is mainly attributed to Singapore's superb port facilities and premier location.
Chong Woan Ling, Lee Lai Yen, Tan Boon Leng
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Cultural and Human Capital Signals in Hiring—A Factorial Survey Experiment Across Contexts
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When evaluating candidates, hiring agents may draw on signals of human as well as cultural capital. While these processes have been considered separately, an open question is how the two types of signals interact. As signals of social class, cultural capital signals relate to human capital as they evoke stereotypes about competence, polish ...
Luisa Burchartz +2 more
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Floating at COP30: exclusivity and the carbon cost of travel and accommodation in Belém. [PDF]
UCL Open EnvironDoma J +3 more
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Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development aims to eradicate poverty, protect the environment, and promote prosperity through 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Achieving these goals requires a multi‐sectoral approach. Maritime transportation, vital to the global economy, significantly contributes to several SDGs and plays a strategic ...
Cátia Sousa +3 more
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Hanta on the Hondius - public health and bioethical perspectives of the recent <i>Andes</i> hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. [PDF]
New Microbes New InfectTsiodras S +10 more
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Carnival Cruise Lines: Burnishing the Brand
, 2006 The case of Carnival Cruise Lines chronicles the company’s birth and development as it redefined the leisure cruise industry. With a theme of “Fun Ships” and low pricing, Carnival appealed to a diverse market. Under the pressure of increasing competition,
Kwortnik, Robert J. Jr. +1 more
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Market Integration and Nonlinear Price Transmission in 19th‐Century British Wheat Markets
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Important developments in infrastructure and institutions characterized 19th‐Century wheat markets in Great Britain. Among these developments was the construction of the national rail system which enabled cheaper and more efficient transport of grain and other bulky cargoes between inland towns and ports.
Barry K. Goodwin, A. Ford Ramsey
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IoT-Driven Pull Scheduling to Avoid Congestion in Human Emergency Evacuation. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Gelenbe E, Ma Y.
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