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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the first large‐scale attempts to recruit women as soldiers and officers in 1990s Sweden, focusing on the techniques and promises employed by the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF). Building on a wide range of documents and audiovisual sources, we demonstrate how the SAF utilised various marketing techniques, including ...
Sanna Strand, Fia Cottrell‐Sundevall
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Commodification, viewership and a for-anyone-as-someone "special" structure [PDF]
, 2015 Paddy Scannell’s analysis of broadcasting as a ‘for-anyone-assomeone structure’ (2000: 5) remains a key theoretical delineation of the role radio, television (and, now, digital media) play in everyday life.
Johnson, RJK
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TERRITORIALIZING POWER: The Politics of Presidential Projects in Antananarivo, Madagascar
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale infrastructure projects have become a defining feature of African urbanism. The study of the surge in infrastructure investments has largely been conducted against the backdrop of a purported ‘neoliberal global modernity’ in which cities compete to attract international investments.
Fanny Voélin, Lars Buur
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Film, television and digital games [PDF]
This publication presents results from a survey of businesses mainly engaged in film and video production and post-production services and a census of businesses mainly engaged in television broadcasting, television channel provision and digital game ...
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Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study how foreign investors’ access to corporate information varies with pairwise geopolitical tensions between the investor's and investee's countries. Using a sample of 1,760 country‐pairs, we find that geopolitical tensions between a conference call host firm's country and a foreign country relate negatively with investor participation ...
YIFEI LU +2 more
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Methodological reflections on visually mapping intangible remittances amidst environmental change
Geographical Research, EarlyView.This paper explores the role of transnational migrant networks in exchanging intangible remittances as a climate adaptation strategy. Through visual mapping with Moroccan migrants in Tenerife, it reveals the significance of such exchanges in environmental mobilities research, highlighting their potential for addressing climate change. Abstract Emerging
Loubna Ou‐Salah, Lore Van Praag
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.The audiogram of the world's first successfully captive‐born Yangtze finless porpoise was on average 40 dB higher than conspecifics. Congenital hearing disorders and noise exposure may be the primary cause of porpoise's hearing loss. ABSTRACT Aquariums globally have seen significant growth in recent decades.
Zhitao Wang +3 more
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The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We propose a tractable model of asymmetric platform oligopoly with logit demand in which users from two distinct groups are subject to within‐group and cross‐group network effects and decide which platform to join. We characterize the equilibrium when platforms manage user access by setting participation fees for each user group.
Martin Peitz, Susumu Sato
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The Evolving “Importance” of Social and Governance Measures Over Time
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Countries either converge or diverge in their social and governance performance. This dynamic directly influences the ability of social and governance indicators to differentiate between countries, with divergence increasing their information content and convergence diminishing it.
Mohamed Htitich +2 more
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DIGITAL TEHNOLOGIES. AN OVERVIEW OF CURRENT EVOLUTIONS AND IMPACT [PDF]
Various observers describe today's global economy as one in transition to aknowledge economy, as an extension of an information society. The transition requires thatthe rules and practices that determined success in the industrial economy need rewriting ...
Claudia Ionescu, Vasile Dumitras
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