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From Rare to Common: The Live Streaming Industry of Jadeite Trade in Ruili in the China–Myanmar Borderlands

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Since the early years of the 21st century, the city of Ruili has grown to be a major trade hub for Burmese jadeite on the China–Myanmar border. Starting from 2016 to 2017, Ruili's jadeite trade shifted heavily to online live streaming transactions through media platforms like Douyin, RedNote/Xiaohongshu, and Taobao/Tmall.
Yi Ma
wiley   +1 more source

On Shape-Mediated Enrolment in Ear Biometrics

open access: yes, 2007
Ears are a new biometric with major advantage in that they appear to maintain their shape with increased age. Any automatic biometric system needs enrolment to extract the target area from the background. In ear biometrics the inputs are often human head
Arbab-Zavar, Banafshe, Nixon, Mark
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Накити в България и Великоморавия от IX–X в. (византийски културни влияния)

open access: yesБългарско е-Списание за Археология, 2013
The study explores jewellery from the so-called “Byzantine–Oriental” group, distributed in Bulgaria and Great Moravia in the 9th–10th c. The analysis offered is aimed at showing the close link between the political context in both countries and the ...
Valeri Grigorov
doaj  

The beginnings of S-shaped temple rings in Bohemia from the perspective of archaeological analysis and radiocarbon dating

open access: yesArcheologické Rozhledy
Jewellery represents important evidence not only for the reconstruction of fashion and cultural development but also provides significant support for the chronology of the periods studied.
Nikola Koštová   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Migration for Hard Work: A Reluctant Livelihood Strategy for Poor Households in West Bengal, India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
projects to promote poverty reduction globally. DFID provided funds for this study as part of that goal but the views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s ...
Massey, Deeptima   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Earrings Embedded within Earlobe Keloids [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Plastic Surgery, 2013
Ji Hae Park   +2 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Imported and locally manufactured jewellery in the Cimmerian Bosporus in the late 6th— 5thCenturies BCE [PDF]

open access: yesМатериалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья
This article is devoted to the publication and analysis of gold, electrum and silver jewellery dating from the late 6thto the end of the 5thcenturies BCE, found in the territory of the Cimmerian Bosporus.
Treister, M.
doaj   +1 more source

The fundamental groups of subsets of closed surfaces inject into their first shape groups

open access: yes, 2005
We show that for every subset X of a closed surface M^2 and every basepoint x_0, the natural homomorphism from the fundamental group to the first shape homotopy group, is injective.
Andreas Zastrow   +11 more
core   +2 more sources

Costume of the Population of the Cimmerian Bosporos in the Hunnic Period

open access: yesАнтичная древность и средние века
The purpose of this work is to determine the main features and characteristics of the costume of the sedentary population of the Cimmerian Bosporos in the Hunnic Period (last third of the fourth to mid-fifth century).
Michel Kazanski   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ignore These At Your Peril: Ten principles for trust design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Online trust has been discussed for more than 10 years, yet little practical guidance has emerged that has proven to be applicable across contexts or useful in the long run. 'Trustworthy UI design guidelines' created in the late 90ies to address the then
Riegelsberger, J, Sasse, MA
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