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A Good Bloke and a Good Man to Do Business With: How Men Use Symbolic Masculinity to Network Through Golf

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Business networks are known to be gendered. However, few studies have delved into precisely how gender relates to networking practices. This study focuses on the gendered symbolic practices used by men when they play golf for the purposes of business networking.
Andreas Giazitzoglu, Andrea Whittle
wiley   +1 more source

The Orthopedic Splint and Its Origins. [PDF]

open access: yesOrthop Rev (Pavia)
Surabhi R, Surabhi A, Ganti L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Material Aspirations, Cultural Change, and the Transition Toward Sustained Growth

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We highlight the role of economic materialism as a cultural phenomenon of significance in relation to economic transformation and development. By inducing material aspirations, an endogenous cultural change toward more widespread adherence to materialistic values is both a cause and an effect of productivity growth.
Evangelos V. Dioikitopoulos   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Conversation With David Bellhouse

open access: yesInternational Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary David Richard Bellhouse was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 19 July 1948. He studied actuarial mathematics and statistics at the University of Manitoba (BA, 1970; MA, 1972) and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1975. After being an Assistant Professor for 1 year at his alma mater, he joined the University of Western ...
Christian Genest
wiley   +1 more source

Leviathans and Liberation: Did Whaling Contribute to the Decline of Slavery?

open access: yesInternational Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We test the hypothesis slavery started declining in the United States not due to fossil fuel‐driven industrialization but the exploitation of the bioenergy reserves of the world's largest animals. We predict the population in slavery in US states from 1790 to 1840 as a function of the recorded whaling harvest.
Topher L. McDougal   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unveiling the female experience through adult mortality and survivorship in Milan over the last 2000 years. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Biehler-Gomez L   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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