Song audio features are associated with the presence of alcohol references in popular music lyrics. [PDF]
Alen GD +4 more
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ABSTRACT With the widespread use of narrative feedback in companies, understanding how such feedback can be valuable for employee performance improvement is important. Drawing on proprietary data from an e‐commerce company, we investigate the role of specificity and causality—two key language characteristics for self‐regulation and learning.
Jan Lampe, Utz Schäffer, Daniel Schaupp
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Reconfiguring local characteristics in contemporary Muju: an AI-assisted study of vocal style in Chinese local opera. [PDF]
Cao Y, Liu H, Luo T.
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Moralised Eating and Identity Work in Digital Wellness Culture: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Orthorexia-Related Narratives. [PDF]
Horovitz O.
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ABSTRACT The Arabic phrase Allāhu a‘lam—“God knows best”—is used frequently in everyday Muslim speech and to conclude seemingly assertive statements or fatwas. At its heart lies the recognition that God is the All‐Knowing, whereas humans know next to nothing. Reflecting on this recognition, this essay discusses Sufi refusals of the ethnographic project
Amira Mittermaier
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Decoding the evolution of melodic and harmonic structure of Western music through the lens of network science. [PDF]
Di Marco N +4 more
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Beyond Bia Hơi? Distinction and Aspiration in Hanoi's Craft Beer Scene
ABSTRACT In this article we examine the emergence of Hanoi's craft beer scene as a window into shifting class identities, aspirational consumption, and local–global negotiations in contemporary Vietnam. We bring together Bourdieu's theorisation of taste as symbolic capital with Appadurai's concept of aspiration to analyse how consumption practices ...
Sarah Turner, Chính Trọng Nguyễn
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Extreme social isolation risk is associated with story-driven, strategic and cooperative-first gameplay preferences. [PDF]
Confessor B +8 more
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A Newly Discovered Tablet‐Making Facility in Nineveh: Insights From Scientific Analysis
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the question of tablet technology in the Neo‐Assyrian capital city of Nineveh. Recent excavations in the lower town of Nineveh by the Iraqi–Italian Archaeological Expedition uncovered an exceptional assemblage of more than 200 tablets from an elite residence that appears to have included a scriptorium.
Mathilde Jean +7 more
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