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Leisure studies education: Historical trends and pedagogical futures in the United Kingdom and beyond [PDF]

, 2014
This paper is an attempt to stimulate debate about the decline of leisure studies and the rise of courses and subject fields defined by sport, events, tourism management.
Aitchison, Aitchison, Aitchison, Andrews, Bramham, Karl Spracklen, Parker, Roberts, Rojek, Spracklen, Spraklen   +10 more
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Survey Article:  When and What Is the “Hinge of History”?

Political Philosophy
The concept of "the hinge of history" suggests a unique period in which human actions have unprecedented and potentially irreversible consequences for the long-term future of civilization.
Anders Sandberg, Emma Engström, Joe Roussos, Julia Adler, Karim Jebari, Tim Campbell   +5 more
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Global directions of change in moral norms: a test of the moral argument theory

Royal Society Open Science
How and why are moral norms for various issues changing across the globe? Moral argument theory uniquely addresses these questions by positing that moral norm change is driven by ‘individualizing’ arguments: concerns about harm, fairness and liberty.
Pontus Strimling, Kimmo Eriksson, Irina Vartanova, Joel Krueger, Isabela Hazin   +4 more
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Transit sets of -point crossover operators

AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics, 2020
-point crossover operators and their recombination sets are studied from different perspectives. We show that transit functions of -point crossover generate, for all , the same convexity as the interval function of the underlying graph.
Manoj Changat, Prasanth G. Narasimha-Shenoi, Ferdoos Hossein Nezhad, Matjaž Kovše, Shilpa Mohandas, Abisha Ramachandran, Peter F. Stadler   +6 more
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The Forecasting Value of New Crop Futures: A Decision-Making Framework [PDF]

, 1998
The statistical forecasting efficiency of new crop corn and soybean futures is the topic of frequent academic inquiry. However, few studies address the usefulness of these forecasts to economic agents??? decision making.
Garcia, Philip, Leuthold, Raymond M., Sanders, Dwight R.   +2 more
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Gender differences in competitiveness and fear of failure help explain why girls have lower life satisfaction than boys in gender equal countries

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
Among 15-year-olds, boys tend to report higher life satisfaction than girls. Recent research has shown that this gender gap tends to be larger in more gender-egalitarian countries. We shed light on this apparent paradox by examining the mediating role of
Kimmo Eriksson, Kimmo Eriksson, Pontus Strimling   +2 more
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Axiomatic characterization of the interval function of partial cubes and partial Hamming graphs

AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics
Interval function of a graph is a well-known notion in metric graph theory and the axiomatic characterization using a set of first order axioms of different graph classes is an interesting problem in this area.
Jeny Jacob, Manoj Changat, Lekshmi Kamal K. Sheela, Abhirami R. S, Amrutha U.A.   +4 more
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Futures studies serving the development of future orientation in Hungary [PDF]

, 2016
The paper presents a chronological overview and assessment of futures studies in Hungary. Futures in Hungary can be divided into two well discernible phases: the first one from the inception to the political turn characterized by a vertical and ...
Hideg, Éva, Nováky, Erzsébet, Tóthné Szita, Klára   +2 more
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Dexamethasone for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Prevention in Pediatric Patients: International Consensus

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background An international Delphi panel of experts developed consensus statements to delineate the circumstances where the risks of dexamethasone as an antiemetic do and do not outweigh its benefits. Procedure Experts in supportive care of pediatric patients were invited to participate.
Negar Shavandi, Paula D. Robinson, Shana Jacobs, L. Lee Dupuis, the International Pediatric Dexamethasone Panel, Sameer Bakhshi, Tiene Bauters, Eva Brack, Simone Cesaro, Claire Fosbrook, Jason Freedman, Tamara MacDonald, Eloise Neumann, Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, Rod Rassekh, Florian Slimano, Johnathan Soggee, Joel Thompson, Marianne van de Wetering, Milena Villarroel, Jasper Wong   +20 more
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A Challenging Conversation on Integral Futures: Embodied Foresight and Trialogues [PDF]

, 2008
Practitioner reflection is vital for knowledge frameworks such as Ken Wilber's Integral perspective. Richard Slaughter, Joseph Voros and others have combined Wilber's perspective and Futures Studies to create Integral Futures as a new stance.
Burns, Alex, Floyd, Josh, Ramos, Jose
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