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Taking Stock: Elite Studies and Social Change

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article provides a systematic synthesis of contemporary elite sociology through the analytical lens of change and stability. We distinguish between two types of change: change within elites, referring to transformations in elite composition, circulation, or internal characteristics; and change by elites, designating processes whereby ...
Lena Ajdacic, François Schoenberger, Johanna Behr, Fabio Cescon, Lion Hubrich, Emma Ischinsky, Muneeb Salman, Juliana Mazzucotelli, Laura Mrčela, Alonso Pi Cholula, Céline Roy, Sophie Serrano, Helle Dyrendahl Staven, Tina Thakur   +13 more
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Affordances, dread, and online fraud: Exploring and advancing social learning theory in online contexts

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract We investigate how the affordances of an online context shape the processes of social learning. Using a dataset of more than 11,000 posts from the fraud subdread on the dark web forum Dread, we examine how affordances of platform governance, connectivity, anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, and limited oversight influence the components ...
Fangzhou Wang, Timothy Dickinson
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Productivity and the Business Cycle in Japan -Evidence from Japanese Industry Data - [PDF]

Constructing thirty-seven industries database, we examines whether measured productivity in Japan is procyclical and investigates the sources of that procyclicality using the production function approach employed by Hall (1990) and Basu and Fernald (1995)
Miho Takizawa, Tsutomu Miyagawa, Yukie Sakuragawa   +2 more
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Becoming monstrous: Beauty norms, body image, and discursive limits on compassion in The Substance

Nutrition &Dietetics, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim This study analyses the Hollywood body horror film The Substance to explore how Western beauty culture regulates emotions and bodies. It aims to explore compassion within dominant body image discourses and considers how this impacts dietetic care. Methods Using Foucauldian discourse analysis informed by affect theory, the film was analysed
Phillip Joy
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Hoarding By Elderly People

, 2001
Although hoarding has been studied in adults, little is known about problems of hoarding by elderly people. This study used a structured telephone interview with elder services providers to investigate hoarding behaviors in relation to functional ...
Steketee, Gail, Frost, Randy O., Kim, Hyo-Jin   +2 more
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Disentangling Multitrophic Interactions: How Vegetation Cover, Wild Boar, Deer, and Predators Shape Rodents Activity and Acorn Dispersal

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Vegetation cover promotes rodent activity and acorn dispersal, while wild boars exert a direct negative effect on mice. Conversely, deer and predators displayed no significant impact on rodent behavior. These results identify wild boars as the main disruptors of rodent‐mediated forest regeneration.
David Notario Rincón, Alberto Muñoz, Rafael Barrientos, Álvaro Gaytán, Lucía Cano, Pablo Quiles, Luis Sánchez, Alejandro Redondo, Alexander Cisneros, Raúl Bonal   +9 more
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Filling the void: boredom’s associations with hoarding symptom severity

Discover Psychology
In hoarding disorder, features including attentional difficulties and emotion dysregulation can contribute to the core symptoms of clutter, difficulties discarding, and excessive acquisition.
Emily R. Weiss, McWelling Todman, David M. Roane   +2 more
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Adapting to Urban Heights: Multidimensional Gradients Drive Nest‐Selection Plasticity and Trade‐Offs in a Human‐Commensal Sparrow

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Urban Eurasian tree sparrows exhibit pronounced nest‐site plasticity, exploiting vertical building space while preferring lower nest heights when sites are abundant. Nest decisions are driven by altitude and building height rather than other factors, indicating a shift toward anthropogenic resources in cities.
Yang Wang, Guanqun Kou, Fangyuan Liu, Xu Liu, Juyong Li, Jie Wang, Qian Zhang, Yuan Yin, Limin Wang, John C. Wingfield, Fumin Lei, Dongming Li   +11 more
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Hoarding Disorder Trough Three Case, A New Mental Disorder in DSM-5

Bilişsel Davranışçı Psikoterapi ve Araştırmalar Dergisi, 2014
Compulsive hoarding is a problem characterized with excessive collection and accumulation, failure to discard the excess amount of collected items. Although it is considered to be a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder in DSMIV- TR (Diagnostic and ...
Süheyla DODAN BULUT, Esra ALATAS, Tonguç BERKOL, Halime Şeyma ÖZCELIK, Serdar BULUT   +4 more
doaj  

A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
wiley   +1 more source