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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the effects of male and female empowerment, as well as gender empowerment inequality, on the adoption of climate‐smart agriculture (CSA) practices. Using a conditional mixed process model, we analyse survey data from 743 households across Henan, Shandong and Hebei provinces in China.
Junpeng Li +3 more
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Characterictics of Non-Equivalent Idioms of Biblical Origin in Russian and English
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2014 This article is devoted to the contrastive phraseological analysis of idioms of biblical origin in the Russian and English languages. Biblical idioms are regarded as precedent phenomena and means of speech influence. In particular, the article focuses on
E V Reunova
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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
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TECHNOLOGY OF MODERN TIMES AS A SOURCE OF THE “LEXICON OF COMMON FIGURATIVE UNITS”
Proverbium, 2011 The topic of this paper is widespread idioms (WIs) originating from the domain ‘modern technology’. These idioms are only a small part of the entire “Lexicon of Common Figurative Units” (i.e.
Elisabeth Piirainen
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Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden
Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding.
Henri Vogt, Mikko Värttö
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Idioms on drunkenness and drunkenness on idioms
, 2006 In previous studies (PAMIES 2002), the concepts of iconic model and archimetaphor have been proposed to study the existence of systematicity in the creation and comprehension of idiomatic expressions (from the point of view of the universality of their underlying cognitive mechanisms).
Pamies Bertrán, Antonio +1 more
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Disrupting Students' Learning Habitus: A Digitalized University Didactic Setting in Teacher Training
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.
Gudrun Marci‐Boehncke +1 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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