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“¿Cuánto por una máquina parlante?”: estrategias cotidianas para acceder al mágico mundo de los sonidos grabados (México, 1903-1910)

open access: yesHistoria Crítica, 2023
Objective/Context: This article aims to demonstrate how, despite the high prices of talking machines for the pockets of the Mexican working classes, these sectors used various practices and mechanisms to enter the world of recorded sounds.
Jaddiel Díaz Frene
doaj   +1 more source

Interdiscursive Readings in Cultural Consumer Research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The cultural consumption research landscape of the 21st century is marked by an increasing cross-disciplinary fermentation. At the same time, cultural theory and analysis have been marked by successive ‘inter-’ turns, most notably with regard to the Big ...
Rossolatos, George
core  

The Divisive Power of Humour: Comedy, Taste and Symbolic Boundaries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Using British and Dutch interview data, this article demonstrates how people from different social classes draw strong symbolic boundaries on the basis of comedy taste.
Bellevance G   +10 more
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contemporary aspects of museum spatial interpretation

open access: yesRecreation
Museums are classical cultural preservation and mediating institutions and cultural attractions, too. Often termed "lieu de memoire" (places of memory), which, as places of imagination and rites, become their own references through historicization (Nora,
Éva Schultz, Márton Magyar
doaj   +1 more source

Structural instability impairs function of the UDP‐xylose synthase 1 Ile181Asn variant associated with short‐stature genetic syndrome in humans

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The Ile181Asn variant of human UDP‐xylose synthase (hUXS1), associated with a short‐stature genetic syndrome, has previously been reported as inactive. Our findings demonstrate that Ile181Asn‐hUXS1 retains catalytic activity similar to the wild‐type but exhibits reduced stability, a looser oligomeric state, and an increased tendency to precipitate ...
Tuo Li   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The (Glg)ABCs of cyanobacteria: modelling of glycogen synthesis and functional divergence of glycogen synthases in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
We reconstituted Synechocystis glycogen synthesis in vitro from purified enzymes and showed that two GlgA isoenzymes produce glycogen with different architectures: GlgA1 yields denser, highly branched glycogen, whereas GlgA2 synthesizes longer, less‐branched chains.
Kenric Lee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Helpful clicks: consumers’ perceived diagnosticity of online book reviews

open access: yesConsumer Behavior Review
This paper investigates online feedback systems and their perceived diagnosticity in the book industry, using a mixed methods approach, with data retrieved from Amazon.
Beatrice Piva, Lénia Marques
doaj   +1 more source

Provisión eficiente de bienes públicos: oferta y demanda de bibliotecas públicas en Colombia

open access: yesRevista Finanzas y Política Económica, 2023
The present research aims to carry out a study on the supply of public libraries in Colombia and the variables that determine their demand. To analyze the supply, the Directory of public libraries carried out by the National Library of Colombia is used,
Doris Lilia Andrade Agudelo   +2 more
doaj  

Usos del tiempo y consumo cultural de los estudiantes universitarios

open access: yesCPU-e, 2013
El trabajo analiza la baja participación estudiantil en las diversas actividades artístico-culturales de la Universidad Veracruzana. Desde un enfoque sociológico, reflexiona acerca de los Consumos Culturales de las/os jóvenes universitarias/os ...
Dra. Marcela País Andrade
doaj   +1 more source

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