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Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden

Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding.
Henri Vogt, Mikko Värttö
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From mammoth to miniature: ‘Model of a summer encampment of the Yakuts’ as a narrative object Du mammouth à la miniature : La maquette de camp d’été des Yakoutes comme objet de narration

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Classic anthropological accounts of miniature objects have focused on their spatial and aesthetic dimensions, with more recent work addressing their communicative potential, connections with play, and role in protecting threatened cultural knowledge. This article analyses responses to a miniature landscape model of yhyakh, a festival celebrated in the ...
Alison K. Brown
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fib International Conference on Concrete Sustainability

Acta Polytechnica CTU Proceedings, 2022
The fib International Conference on Concrete Sustainability was held in Prague, in September 8 - 10, 2021. New situation in natural and socio-economic environment requires new technical solutions for construction of new and reconstruction and ...
Editorial, Foreword
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CONTEMPORARY MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES IN CIVIL ENGINEERING 2018

Acta Polytechnica CTU Proceedings, 2019
Date: June 13, 2018Venue: Prague, Czech RepublicURL: https://www.fsv.cvut.cz/konfer/nans2018.pdfOrganized by:Department of Building Structures, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague Joint Laboratory of Technology Polymer ...
Editorial, Foreword
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Book Review [PDF]

, 1993
Review of: ANN RAPPAPORT & MARGARET FRESHER FLAHERTY, CORPORATE RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES: INITIATIVES BY MULTINATIONAL MANAGEMENT. (Quorum Books 1992) [186 pp.] Acknowledgements, bibliography, figures, foreword, index, notes, tables.
Julian-Arnold, Gianna
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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Foreword [PDF]

, 2018
In 2012 our colleague Robert J. Kaczorowski published Fordham University School of Law: A History. As we read Bob’s book, discussed it, and thought about it, we realized emphatically that it not only synthesized the history of Fordham Law School in a ...
Diller, Matthew
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James Platt Junior's Contributions to Old English Grammar1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In 1883, Henry Sweet took issue with James Platt junior, a 21‐year‐old language enthusiast. At the time, Platt was England's brightest young prospect in Old English linguistic studies. Sweet recognised Platt's talent, but he became convinced that he was also a plagiarist and tried to have him expelled from the Philological Society.
Stephen Laker
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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SPECIAL CONCRETE AND COMPOSITES 2018 : 15^th international conference

Acta Polytechnica CTU Proceedings, 2019
Thanks to modern technology and demanding applications is an area of special concrete very rapidly growing field. Among the special concretes are such types of concrete that is something markedly different from the traditional concrete.
Editorial, Foreword
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