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Government by WhatsApp? Transparency, Secrecy and Avoidance during Covid in the UK

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract It has been claimed repeatedly that transparency undermines decision‐making. The fear of disclosure means officials and politicians may not discuss policy fully, are inhibited from giving frank advice, and could avoid proper record keeping. The use of informal communications—particularly the use of WhatsApp—makes all these tensions more likely,
Ben Worthy, Martin Rosenbaum
wiley   +1 more source

Damage mechanisms in St. Bartholomeus Church under gravity, snow, and seismic loads. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Karalar M, Sertkaya B, Çufalı G, Erdil B, Korkut F, Yaltay N.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Brave, Armed and Watchful’: Domestic Militarization and Contested Femininities During the Kenyan Emergency

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the militarization of white settler women during the Kenya Emergency (1952–1960), analyzing how their armed participation disrupted and reconfigured colonial gender norms. Drawing on visual and textual archival and newspaper sources, this article explores representations of settler women as maternal guardians of the ...
Lauren Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Experimental Evaluation of a Concealed Anchoring System for Large-Format Thin Ceramic Panels Under Wind Loading in Ventilated Façades. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Roviras Miñana J, Sarrablo Moreno V, Casariego Vales P.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Selected Materials-Building Façades in Poland. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Burchart D, Schabowicz K.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
wiley   +1 more source

AI driven coupled optical thermal electrical optimization of climate responsive colored bipvt façades for energy efficient buildings. [PDF]

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Almazam K, Abuhussain MA, Nasrallah E, Bashir FM, Dodo YA, Garo OO, Lagebo ML.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

BEHIND THE FACES OF AESTHETICIZED URBANISM IN TUNXI, CHINA

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban policy in China has become increasingly predicated on securing an approved aesthetic that reflects ideological campaigns and political programmes. In highlighting the role of the aesthetic in Chinese urbanism, this article argues that the party‐state draws on an aesthetic palette that places the contemporary urban landscape in a ...
Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley, Asa Roast
wiley   +1 more source

Comparing daylight performance of dynamic and static shadings in office façades across multiple U.S. cities with various sky conditions. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Ziaee N, Ghiai M.
europepmc   +1 more source