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The Legacies of Lockdown: Moral Logics of Exchange and Mistrust in Postpandemic China

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When Shanghai entered an extended lockdown under China's Zero‐COVID policy in spring 2022, residents found themselves confined within their residential compounds, cut off from conventional supply chains, and dependent on improvised systems of local provisioning and state rationing. From the perspective of economic anthropology, such conditions
Erika Kuever
wiley   +1 more source

Central Bank Digital Currencies, Financial Inclusion, and Privacy: A Normative Perspective

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are a digital form of a nation's money, issued by its central bank. As opposed to other forms of digital money, such as electronic bank balances or cryptocurrencies, they are centrally managed legal tender.
Andrew Allison, Alexander William Salter
wiley   +1 more source

Adding Realism to Theories of Taxpayer Compliance

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Explaining why people pay taxes has not been a central focus in the many important contributions of Jim Cox. Even so, I argue here that his work has greatly affected the way that we think about taxpayer compliance, by adding both directly and indirectly much needed realism to the theories and the applications of compliance. These contributions
James Alm
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison of the effects of rectal examination on heart rate and eye temperature in cattle of different parity

Veterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Rectal examination is a routine procedure in bovine reproductive management, but its physiological impact may vary depending on the cow's age and parity. Stress responses during such procedures can negatively affect animal welfare and compliance, especially in inexperienced animals.
Atakan Cortu, Orsan Gungor
wiley   +1 more source

Change in Vocal Resonance Following Sinonasal Surgery

World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives Delineate objective and clinician‐perceived subjective changes in voice quality following sinonasal surgery. Methods Prospective cohort study of six adults who completed pre‐ and post‐operative voice recordings which were analyzed for jitter, shimmer, noise to harmonic ratio (NHR), cepstral peak prominence (CPP), formant and anti ...
Meha G. Fox, Sarah L. Blumhardt, Lauren McCray, K. Kelly Gallagher, Julina Ongkasuwan, Tran B. Locke   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adjusting Our Thinking About Feeding Animals: Fiber as the Metric for Mimicking Natural Diets

Zoo Biology, EarlyView.
A typical effect of the change of an animal group to a diet higher in fiber: juveniles keep growing, animals of ideal body weight maintain their weight, and obese individuals lose weight. ABSTRACT Free‐ranging animals often ingest markedly different diets than their counterparts under human care, whether companion animals, production animals, or zoo ...
Marcus Clauss, Geert P. J. Janssens, Oliver Pritchard Moore, Sarah Byrne, Marcin Przybyło   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Feeding Practices and Welfare of Zoo‐Housed Giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) on a Global Scale

Zoo Biology, EarlyView.
We collected feeding and stereotypy information on 702 giraffes from 146 zoos from all over the world. Less appropriate diets were linked to more oral stereotypies. ABSTRACT Since giraffe feeding practices have only been reported for European and US facilities, this study aimed to achieve a comprehensive overview of the current giraffe feeding ...
Rosalyn Pardave, Gernot Osthoff, Marcus Clauss, Francois Deacon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Life history attributes influencing metabolic variation in an estuarine fish

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Considering that energy availability and oxygen transport potential are limited in supplying metabolic requirements, all animals face trade‐offs between competing metabolic demands.
Elizabeth C. Hoots, Luis L. Kuchenmüller, Michael R. Skeeles, Timothy D. Clark   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The ‘big houses‐big cars dilemma’: How do we reconcile the prevalence of positive correlations among life history traits?

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Life history theory assumes that there are negative correlations among different components of the life history—investing more in reproduction now means taking resources away from growth, maintenance or the ability to reproduce in the future.
David Reznick, Joseph Travis, Ronald Bassar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Thriving for More Collapses the System: The Academic Reproduction of Uncaring Structures

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay argues that the widening gap between aspirational aims and visionary orientations and the prevailing practices in neoliberal academia stems from deeper, historically rooted, market‐based logics shaping our institutions, increasingly governed by economic values and academic subjectivities therein.
Lara Pecis, Florian Bauer
wiley   +1 more source