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AstroECP: towards more practical electron channeling contrast imaging

Journal of Applied Crystallography, EarlyView.
We explore and address many of the major challenges associated with using electron channeling contrast imaging in a scanning electron microscope, with the goal of more easily revealing and characterizing crystalline defects such as dislocations.Electron channeling contrast imaging (ECCI) is a scanning electron microscope based technique which enables ...
M. Haroon Qaiser, Lukas Berners, Robin J. Scales, Tianbi Zhang, Martin Heller, Jiří Dluhoš, Sandra Korte-Kerzel, T. Ben Britton   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Examination Hell Pay Off? A Cost-Benefit Analysis of "Ronin" and College Education in Japan [PDF]

College-bound students in Japan undergo a process of intense preparation known as examination hell. An extreme manifestation of examination hell is the ronin phenomenon.
Ono, Hiroshi
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2D‐RIXS: resonant inelastic X‐ray scattering microscopy with high energy and spatial resolutions

Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, EarlyView.
A resonant inelastic X‐ray scattering microscopy system with a spatial resolution of 1.0 µm combined with ultrahigh energy resolution in the soft X‐ray regime has been established.A two‐dimensional resonant inelastic X‐ray scattering (2D‐RIXS) microscopy system has been developed at beamline BL02U of NanoTerasu.
Kohei Yamamoto, Hakuto Suzuki, Jun Miyawaki   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Incentives in Religious Performance: a Stochastic Dominance Approach [PDF]

Using a stochastic dominance approach in an international dataset of about 10,000 Catholic subjects, we show that incentives (based on absolute belief) play a crucial role in religious practice (church attendance and prayer).
Tere M. García-Muñoz
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Pollination‐related plant traits under environmental changes: Seasonal and daily mismatches produce temporal constraints

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Pollination is a key tenet of ecosystem sustainability and food security, but it is threatened by climate change. While many studies investigated the response of plant‐pollination traits to temperature, few attempted multifactorial and integrative approaches with ...
Mathieu A. J. Leclerc, Marc Gibernau, Sylvain Pincebourde   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Like Human, Like Algorithm: Responses to Algorithmic Discrimination Among Individuals From Protected Classes

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract Algorithms, commonly used in business practice, often discriminate against members of protected classes (e.g. racial minorities). Previous research findings suggest that individuals, including those from protected classes, under some circumstances, may not respond negatively to discriminatory algorithms.
Gülen Sarial‐Abi, Verdiana Giannetti
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Autopsy, deathways, and intercultural healthcare in the southern Peruvian Andes Autopsie, pratiques mortuaires et soins de santé interculturels dans le sud des Andes péruviennes

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
wiley   +1 more source

Entwined Liberations: North Korean Democratic Women's Union and Third World Internationalism, 1945–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
wiley   +1 more source