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Manufacturing Nostalgia in the Digital Age: A Foreverism Perspective

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many scholars argue that we are experiencing the era of “retro”—nostalgia‐driven marketing and consumption phenomena reinforced by digital technologies. However, existing research lacks a critical analysis of nostalgia in contemporary markets and of how digital content, tools, and environments transform retro consumption experiences and alter ...
Dinara Davlembayeva   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Worker Relocations and Worker Performance: Evidence From the National Basketball Association

open access: yesManagerial and Decision Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study uses National Basketball Association (NBA) player data to test for impacts of worker relocations on worker performance. Using mid‐season trades in the NBA as a setting in which workers are relocated with little notice and time for preparation, we estimate difference‐in‐difference fixed‐effects regressions to test whether employer ...
Kejian Zhu, Richard J. Paulsen
wiley   +1 more source

How can children and young people have a voice in urban treescapes?

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Scientific understanding of climate change has, to date, failed to result in sufficient action. This paper proposes that a deficit model of top‐down learning and dissemination in relation to public engagement with science may be part of the problem, particularly when considering the attitudes, values and empowerment of children and young ...
Simon Carr   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reconstructive Dreams: A Pragmatic Fantastic After Postmodernism

open access: yes, 2013
This dissertation focuses on the use of fantastic elements in the work of a young generation of writers which explore the possibilities of literary development after and beyond postmodernism.
Huber, Irmtraud
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Digital surveillance of animals and nature recovery

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Digital surveillance technologies (DSTs) are widely applied in nature recovery for their potential to generate novel data on species and ecosystems through digital tracking, automation (e.g. from hazardous locations) and from newly recruited citizen scientists.
William M. Adams
wiley   +1 more source

Rewilding's technological experiments: Virtual reality and scalable narratives of rewilding in the Scottish highlands

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Depictions of rewilded landscapes reveal the underlying principles shaping the future of rewilding. This paper analyses a virtual reality (VR) model of a rewilding project in the Scottish Highlands that is advertised as a vision of a rewilded nature in 50 to 100 years' time.
Nick Sidwell
wiley   +1 more source

Hip Hop Sound Story

open access: yes, 2007
Hip Hop, Charlie Chase, Cold Crush Brothers, U-Roy, Ismael Rivera, Fantastic Five, Mean Machine, Ray Baretto, break beats, break ...
Shannon Dudley   +1 more
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Geometric Intuition Enables Resource‐Efficient Screening for β‐Barrel‐Like Folds in Viral Structural Dark Matter

open access: yesProteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Predicted protein structures now enable fold discovery beyond the reach of sequence homology, but scalable and interpretable methods remain limited. We present Cooper‐Beta, a resource‐efficient, chain‐resolved framework for detecting β‐barrel‐like folds from strand connectivity.
Shuyu Zhong, Yuying Jiang
wiley   +1 more source

Prohibited Plants: Converging Sustainability Transitions and Local Development in ‘Left‐Behind Places’

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between sustainability transitions and local development through the case of Colombia's medicinal cannabis industry. It highlights how neglecting place‐specific needs and development expectations can hinder equitable transitions and reinforce existing socio‐economic disparities.
Diana Morales, Mónica Ramos‐Mejía
wiley   +1 more source

Fantastic Intrusions: The Fantastic as a Concretization of Human Hardship [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2017-06This essay explores the role of the fantastic in both historical and contemporary works. The essay delves into the questions: What does it mean when the fantastic appears in a work of fiction? What does
Walker, Catherine
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