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FinTech and Environmental Sustainability: Evidence From Brazil

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the dynamic interplay between economic growth and environmental sustainability from a FinTech perspective, using Brazil as a case study. While FinTech's contribution to green transformation, sustainable finance, and resource efficiency has gained increasing attention, a notable lack of empirical research remains to assess ...
Kemal Eyuboglu, Umut Uzar
wiley   +1 more source

Unnatural Causes: Cryptocurrencies, Carbon Credits, and the rise of Neoliberalism from Below

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Klima is a carbon‐backed cryptocurrency running as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). In 2021, it had accumulated 9 million metric tons of digital carbon credits and reached a market value of more than US$1 billion. In 2023, its treasury stored twice as many carbon credits, but its spot price was a tiny fraction compared to 2021 ...
Riccardo De Cristano, Alexander Paulsson
wiley   +1 more source

Systemic Governance From Below: Story Telling to Empower Access to the Commons Through Mapping and Modelling: A Mixed Methods Approach

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Access to forests, farming land and the Citarum river is limited in Tarumajaya; furthermore, many do not own their own housing and are dependent on the public and private landowners in the area. The region of Tarumajaya faces significant challenges in access to crucial resources such as forests, farming land and the Citarum river, leading to a
Rudolf Wirawan, Janet Judy McIntyre‐Mills, R. Riswanda R. Riswanda, Ida Widianingsih, Indra Gunawan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence as Web 4.0: The Next Generation of the Internet

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study utilizes systems thinking to explore and entwine an evolving metaverse scholarship to a relatively underexplored phenomenon of Web 4.0. We adopt a soft systems thinking framework to guide the interpretation of complex and evolving metaverse scholarship, using bibliometric mapping of 5587 publications sourced from Scopus.
Anton Klarin, Elena Gorenskaia, Qijie Xiao, Pi‐Shen Seet   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early Cervical and Orofacial Variable Dystonia in Levodopa‐Naïve PRKN Parkinson's Disease

Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Amy Gallagher, Aine Redmond, John McKinley, John Inocentes, Diana A Olszewska, Conor Fearon, Tim Lynch   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pre‐task Vocabulary Support Enhances Lexical Learning but Dampens Positive Emotions: Interactive Task Implementation in English‐as‐a‐Foreign‐Language Classroom

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This classroom study explored the effects of vocabulary support on collocation learning and affective responses in task‐based language teaching (TBLT) among English‐as‐a‐foreign‐language (EFL) learners at a Japanese university. For this purpose, 68 EFL learners completed two interactive information‐gap tasks under either vocabulary‐support or ...
Yuichi Suzuki, Sachiko Nakamura
wiley   +1 more source

Shin, Cin, and Jinn in far east Asian, central east Asian, and middle eastern cultures : case studies in transethnic communication by exchange of terminology for elementary spiritual concepts of ethic groups [PDF]

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Methodology and Objects: Methodologically, from a diachronic linguistics perspective regarding the concept of the shin, spirits in folk belief in China and neighbouring cultures, we compare texts that comprise meanings a) historically in the local ...
Haase, Fee-Alexandra
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Engagement and Interaction for Second Language Learning

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Engagement is an appealing concept because researchers and practitioners can easily agree on its importance for second language (L2) learning. Consequently, there has been a rapid research increase and engagement will be a hot topic in the coming decade.
Masatoshi Sato
wiley   +1 more source

An In-Depth Exploration of the Ideology and Practice of Disease Treatment with Daoist Talismans and Decoctions

Yixue yu zhexue
Initially, when Daoist practitioners treated diseases with talismans, they did not use herbal decoctions but relied solely on talismans. Through the differentiation and development during the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties, some Daoists ...
Fang LIU, Yinwei LIU
doaj   +1 more source

Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
wiley   +1 more source