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Measuring corporate viability: a dialectical approach
A case study of a renewable, electrical energy corporation was used as the basis for developing a new method for measuring organizational viability. Viability presumes a practical capability for sustained success and effectiveness. Increasingly over recent years, institutional status has been reliant on empirical equilibrium measurement techniques ...
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Education and Social Attitudes Toward Internal Migrants: Causal Evidence From China
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the causal impact of educational attainment on natives' attitudes toward internal migrants in China, a question central to understanding the social foundations of integration in rapidly urbanizing societies. Using nationally representative data from the China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS), we find that higher education ...
Wei Huang +3 more
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT ‘What we teach is true to us’, one social studies teacher reflected when describing the curricular standards guiding his Dubai classroom. But who, in Dubai's multinational classrooms, gets to be part of that ‘us’? Private secondary schools in Dubai have become productive sites for state‐led civic nationalist projects. The United Arab Emirates'
Christian Bevilacqua
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Dilemmas Encountered While Planning Social and/or Political Elementary Mathematics Tasks
School Science and Mathematics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A mathematical task rooted in social and/or political contexts has the potential to engage students in exploring their own realities and learning about the realities of others while building their mathematical knowledge. While there are planning and instructional practices recommended for these types of tasks, no single practice can fully ...
Amanda Sugimoto +5 more
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There Is More Than Meets the Eye: The Dual Role of Perception in Shaping Color Lexicons
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Color's ultimate physical reality is continuous, and yet human beings “cut” this continuum into a rather small number of categories reflected in their languages’ color lexicon. There are striking cross‐linguistic differences in the color lexicon, which are primarily attributed to differences in communicative needs, but also striking ...
Mathilde Josserand +3 more
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, 2020 Over the last two decades, the institution of investment treaty arbitration has increasingly attracted a particular type of academic criticism. In challenging the overall coherence of an international adjudicative social practice, the spectre of a legitimacy crisis has successively established itself in the scholarly language-game orbiting investor ...
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Limits to Language Prediction: Findings From Diverse Populations
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract For a model in cognitive science to adequately explain cognitive processes across different populations, empirical findings from diverse participant groups are essential. This paper selectively reviews studies that investigated prediction in different populations and discusses what they reveal about the mechanisms and role of language ...
Aine Ito
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US–China Differences in Children's Reasoning, Visual Attention, and Social Cognition
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Outward differences between cultures are very salient, with Western and East Asian cultures as a prominent comparison pair. A large literature describes cross‐cultural variation in cognition, but relatively less research has explored the developmental origins of this variation and those findings that are reported have not typically been ...
Alexandra Carstensen +9 more
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Local Tests of English in Global Contexts: A Malaysian Case Study
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Global tests of English are usually used globally and local tests locally. However, this global–local dichotomy has been challenged by test localisation, globalisation and glocalisation. An emerging critical question in this regard is whether local tests of English can be used locally and globally at the same time.
M. Obaidul Hamid, Mohd Faiz Mohd Yaakob
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Must Can: Double‐Modal Constructions in Hong Kong English
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Previous studies have focused on double‐modal constructions (DMs) in Englishes in the Inner Circle at the expense of the Outer Circle. Using data collected from internet forums and corpora, this study aims to narrow the research gap by examining DMs in Hong Kong English (HKE), an English variety in the Outer Circle.
Pun Ho Lui
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