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Tackling Social Inequality in the City of Porto, Northern Portugal: Grassroots Horticultural Practices and the Desired City

Social Inclusion
Grassroots urban horticultural plots (hortas), part of the Porto Metropolitan Area in Northern Portugal, are presented as liminal spaces that hold a richness of community life and a “gift economy.” Often in existence for several decades and encompassing ...
Paula Mota Santos
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Positively Charged Polymer‐Brush MOFs for Large‐Area, Pressure‐Resistant Gas Separation Membranes

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A universal POPA strategy enables positively charged polymer‐brush MOFs with self‐adaptive interfacial interlocking to resist aggregation under fast processing. This design ensures seamless dispersion within large‐area selective layers, achieving 1 m‐wide roll‐to‐roll fabrication of pressure‐resistant MMCMs with tunable CO2 separation performance ...
Yi Yang, Ye Yuan, Yuxiu Sun, Fei Shi, Chenyang Song, Weifan Wang, Qinghua Li, Menglong Sheng, Zhihua Qiao, Jingwei Hou, Anthony K. Cheetham, Zhi Wang   +11 more
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“To fulfill a private obligation”: Marianne Moore, Her Patrons, and the Social Economy of the Gift

NANO, 2017
This paper focuses on material and financial gifts received by the American modernist poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972) under the auspices of patronage.
Síofra McSherry
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The Hi-Tech Gift Economy

First Monday, 1998
Abstract
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New‐Era Polymer Thermoelectrics: Material Innovations, Doping Frontiers, Decoupling Strategies, and Unconventional Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The field of polymer thermoelectrics is entering a new era, featuring breakthroughs in addressing the conventional performance disparity between p‐type and n‐type polymers, pioneering doping frontiers, and sophisticated decoupling strategies. This review explores innovations in molecular design and superior stabilities, bridging the gap from ...
Suhao Wang
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Female-centered fan fiction as homoaffection in fan communities

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2017
In the scholarship of fan studies, a lot has been said about why female fan communities enjoy writing about male characters and relationships in fan fiction.
Ria Narai
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Gift Exchange as Communal Resistance in Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying

NANO, 2017
This article examines the representation of gift exchange in Ernest Gaines’s novel, A Lesson Before Dying. Drawing upon sociological and anthropological theories of the gift, it argues that gift exchange among the black community in the fictional town of
Scott Thomas Gibson
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Marxian Crisis, Maussian Gift: The mutual-help practices of Lisbon’s Cape Verdean labor immigrants in an age of austerity

Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, 2012
The post-2008 economic crisis in Portugal has been particularly severe in the neighborhoods in which many of the country’s Cape Verdean labor immigrants live.
Samuel Weeks
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Weakly‐Coordinating Non‐Fluorinated Diluents for Local High‐Concentration Electrolytes in Advanced Lithium Metal Batteries

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This perspective critically evaluates non‐fluorinated diluents in local high‐concentration electrolytes, categorizing their solvation behavior, interfacial mechanisms, and sustainability potential to guide future electrolyte design for lithium metal batteries.
Yin Cui, Xinrui Li, Nan Jiang, Xinyan Huang, E. Lora da Silva, Ruo Zhao, Tao Yang, Qingxia Liu, Xidong Lin   +8 more
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The Politics of Objects: Eliza Cook’s Biographies of Things

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2016
Eliza Cook’s poetry of daily life is intertwined with her Chartist engagement. While her poems often denounce the forces of oppression that threaten social peace and the daily life of simple people, her biographies or fictitious autobiographies of things
Fabienne Moine
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