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The Dynamics of Reading Genre Fiction: Researching and Teaching Interpretive Practices

open access: yesReading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.
Conceptual model positioning genre fiction as a site for studying how narrative form organizes reader interpretation, identifying four dynamics—iterability, narrative interest, serialization, and spectacle—to guide empirical research on reading processes.
Robert Jean LeBlanc, Amy Stornaiuolo
wiley   +1 more source

Manufacturing Trends in the U.S., [PDF]

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A comparative assessment of major trends and shifts in manufacturing employment in the U.S. and in Iowa in recent years. In addition, comparisons are made of Iowa's manufacturing job performance in relation to the average for all states that border Iowa.
Swenson, David A.
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The plasticisation model of dye diffusion: Part 5

open access: yesColoration Technology, Volume 142, Issue 2, Page 296-326, April 2026.
Abstract The findings presented in the previous part of the paper (Part 4) of the re‐evaluation of previously published data reported for the temperature‐dependent diffusion of an organic acid within nylon 6 film, desorption of three acid dyes from dyed nylon 66 fabric, diffusion of an acid dye within nylon 6 monofilaments and adsorption of a sulphur ...
Stephen M. Burkinshaw
wiley   +1 more source

Bangladesh Apparels Export to the US Market - An Examination of Her Competitiveness vis-à-vis China [PDF]

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The rise of China has major repercussions for a country such as Bangladesh which has emerged as an important player in the global apparels market. True, the global pie in apparels trade is expected to expand considerably in view of the increase in demand,
Asif Anwar, Mustafizur Rahman
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Rethinking network embeddedness in international business: A review and view in space and time

open access: yesInternational Journal of Management Reviews, Volume 28, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract Conceptual and empirical contributions to network embeddedness have flourished in the last decades within the field of international business (IB). Scholars have used the concept to explain IB phenomena through the lens of business actors’ network relationships and positions in their networks.
Giulia Galizzi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Snap Judgements: Turning Photography into Art in the Late Soviet Union

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 2, Page 217-236, April 2026.
Abstract The history of photography and photography theory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is often preoccupied with “Western” criticism and arguments regarding the photograph as art, document, or technology. Yet, this criticism has ignored the development of photographic theory in the Soviet Union, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s ...
Jessica Werneke
wiley   +1 more source

‘You Had to Obey Your Husband; He Worked, You Raised the Children. Today, Things Have Changed’: A Mixed Methods Study on Gender Equality in Rural Croatia

open access: yesSociologia Ruralis, Volume 66, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT The issue of gender (in)equality occupies an important place in sociological research, but there is still a lack of empirical studies that focus on rural areas. Based on the research approach of qualitatively guided sequential mixed‐methods research design (QUAL → quan), this study analysed 53 semi‐structured in‐depth interviews conducted with
Vladimir Ivanović   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Social Capital in Mountain Dairy Systems: Two Examples From Grisons, Switzerland

open access: yesSociologia Ruralis, Volume 66, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT The global corporate agro‐food system has marginalised food production in remote regions where mountain dairy farming has historically utilised non‐arable land for livestock grazing. This decline has weakened local food value chains, even though mountain dairy systems function as values‐based supply chains that integrate social and ecological ...
Paul Froning, Rike Stotten
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of Textile Architecture on the Electromechanical Behavior of Conductive Carbon: Silicone Composite Strain Sensors

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, Volume 28, Issue 6, 18 March 2026.
A stretchable carbon composite is integrated by stencil printing onto two different types of textile, with different yarn morphologies. The impact of the knit structure and coating direction on the performance of the sensor composite is evaluated and used to derive a model estimating nominal resistance at a given strain near the percolation threshold ...
Gabriela Ananieva   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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