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Мiryachit: A Culture‐Specific Startle Syndrome in the Saami People

open access: yesMovement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Miryachit is perhaps the most complex and least understood of the culture‐specific startle syndromes that include latah and the jumping Frenchmen of Maine. Objectives We carried out a field study to evaluate startle‐induced paroxysms in the Saami to determine if it is still endemic and, if so, to contrast it with the available ...
Marianna Selikhova   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“We actually made something and solved a problem”: Exploring relationships between middle school engineering culture and girls' engineering experiences

open access: yesScience Education, Volume 107, Issue 1, Page 149-179, January 2023., 2023
Abstract As historically construed, both engineering culture and school science culture marginalize girls. With the focus on engineering in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), engineering education researchers have called for a more targeted investigation of how girls at the K‐12 level engage in engineering.
Aerin W. Benavides   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

TOOL KIT VARIABILITY OF THE PALEOLITHIC KHARGANYN-GOL-5 SITE IN NORTHERN MONGOLIA

open access: yesВестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2015
During the Late Pleistocene, Mongolia was probably a land of many population dispersals. The cultural shifts observed in archeological sequences document some of these events.
A. M. Khatsenovich   +3 more
doaj  

The tentacles of surveillance: Cephalopods and United States satellite intelligence

open access: yesJournal for the Anthropology of North America, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the symbol placed on a US spy satellite, National Reconnaissance Office Launch–39 (NROL‐39). In 2013, NROL‐39 was launched into space, the payload vehicle and mission patch emblazoned with a gigantic octopus, its tentacles surrounding the globe, and the words “Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach” written below the globe.
Andrew Bickford
wiley   +1 more source

Organizational Ethnographies

open access: yes, 2018
Ciuk, Sylwia   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Opportunities for Downward Accountability? Survey Evidence From Small Transnational NGOs

open access: yesNonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Development NGOs face expanded pressures for accountability, both to deliver project results and to operate with participatory and democratic processes. Existing research distinguishes between “upward” accountability to donors and “downward” accountability to clients or beneficiaries, and it often finds that pressures of upward accountability ...
Allison Schnable   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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