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HYPERSCALING HOUSING: Venture Capital, Real Estate Start‐Ups and the Race to Build a Global Residential Brand

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Synonymous with the rise of Big Tech, venture capitalists (VCs) are asset managers that invest in early‐stage companies, pursuing aggressive growth and market domination. Since the 2008 financial crisis, VCs have poured huge sums into real estate start‐ups.
Tim White
wiley   +1 more source

Causal inference shapes crossmodal postdiction in multisensory integration. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Günaydın G, Moran JK, Rohe T, Senkowski D.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Illusion of Risk Control

, 2017
This book explores the implications of acknowledging uncertainty and black swans for regulation of high-hazard technologies, for stakeholder acceptability of potentially hazardous activities and for risk governance. The conventional approach to risk assessment, which combines the likelihood of an event and the severity of its consequences, is poorly ...
Motet, Gilles, Bieder, Corinne
openaire   +1 more source

ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

The proprioception illusion can simulate limb movement in persons with limb difference. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Leskovar R, Kyberd PJ, Moore JM, Exell TA, Ostler C.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
wiley   +1 more source

Acute technostress, schizotypal traits, and visual illusion perception in the general population. [PDF]

Exp Brain Res
Le TN, Chouinard PA, Abou-Sinna A, Sperandio I, Unwin KL.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Skilled for Whom? Immigration Policy, Racial Capitalism, and the Reproduction of Inequality in Britain

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the UK's 2025 Immigration White Paper as a critical site for understanding how immigration policy functions as an instrument of racial capitalism. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, the theory of social reproduction, and intersectionality, it interrogates how the state's construction of the ‘skilled migrant’ operates as a ...
Muhammad Abdul Aziz, Muhammad Umar, Deborah Hamer‐Acquaah   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The illusion of a "sense of body lightness" while walking: a preliminary exploratory study. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Hayashida K, Nishi Y, Osawa K, Inui Y, Morioka S.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Do you see what I see? Linking involuntary nonretinal (phantom) vision and mental imagery in aphantasia. [PDF]

J Vis
Keogh R, Kay L, Meagher C, Pearson J.
europepmc   +1 more source