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Class performance: An empirical case of Chinese service workers in hair salons
Regional Science Policy &Practice, Volume 15, Issue 9, Page 1926-1940, December 2023., 2023 Abstract China's service sector has attracted millions of internal migrants from impoverished rural areas. This research investigates how service work contributes to the reproduction of class inequalities in China through the everyday interactions between service workers and customers.
Wenzhao Chen
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Supporting conservationists’ mental health through better working conditions
Conservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 5, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Biodiversity conservation work can be challenging but rewarding, and both aspects have potential consequences for conservationists’ mental health. Yet, little is known about patterns of mental health among conservationists and its associated workplace protective and risk factors.
Thomas Pienkowski +14 more
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Skeletal age during hurricane impacts fluctuating asymmetry in Cayo Santiago rhesus macaques
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 13, Issue 8, August 2023., 2023 Fluctuating asymmetry (FA), or random deviations from symmetry, can be used as a proxy for developmental instability, and anthropogenic and natural disruptions have been associated with increased levels of FA. In this study, we investigate the effect of demographic variables (age, sex, and decade of birth) and hurricane experience on FA in a model ...
Ashly N. Romero +3 more
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Objective measurement of Spanish emotion vocabulary
International Journal of Psychology, Volume 58, Issue 4, Page 368-379, August 2023., 2023 Current research on emotion knowledge and competence emphasises the role of language. Emotion vocabulary is one of the indicators of emotion knowledge that can be objectively measured; however, the metric properties of the scores obtained in tests and tasks to measure it have seldom been adequate.
Ana R. Delgado +4 more
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Mobilizing religious differences and terrorism, negotiating civil rights in Egypt
Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 84-101, Spring 2023., 2023 Abstract The Egyptian state's publication of its first National Human Rights Strategy 2021–2026 (NHRS) (2021) on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks came at the crossroads of Western pressure to improve human rights and the state's use of counterterrorism to silence voices.
Nevine Abraham
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Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 59, Issue 11, Page 2730-2741, November 2022., 2022 This study highlights the emergent properties associated with mixing two‐species, which result in resource efficient and temporally stable production systems. We reveal the negative impact of mean temperature on temporal stability of forest productivity and how the stabilizing effect of mixing two species can counterbalance this impact.
Miren del Río +44 more
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Climate change adaptation in Central America: A review of the national policy efforts
Latin American Policy, Volume 13, Issue 2, Page 276-327, November 2022., 2022 Abstract The latest comparative studies of climate policies reinforce the fundamental importance of employing adaptation planning alongside national development strategies. While these studies are necessary to document and share the knowledge of the practices and experiences undertaken at the national level, documents are still scarce on regions of ...
Luis D. Segura +2 more
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Generalization of threats attributed to large carnivores in areas of high human–wildlife conflict
Conservation Biology, Volume 36, Issue 5, October 2022., 2022 Abstract Fear‐induced generalization of threats to noninimical stimuli is a behavioral tendency of humans to minimize exposure to potential threats. In human–carnivore conflict zones, people often generalize their fear of predation by obligate carnivores to nonobligate carnivores despite differences in species’ predation rates.
Kumar Ashish +3 more
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Politics &Policy, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 851-871, August 2022., 2022 Abstract This study investigates the role of political consensus in accelerating economic reforms and finds a significant negative effect of political consensus on the speed of reform votes in the parliament in Tunisia. We analyze the number of days until a reform bill was adopted in parliament to identify the causal effect of the consensus on ...
Nizar Jouini, Manel Ben Akal
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Obesity Reviews, Volume 22, Issue S5, Octubre 2021., 2021 Resumen La obesidad infantil es un problema grave en Latinoamérica y entre la población latina de EE. UU. Para ser eficaces, las políticas de salud pública tienen que estar guiadas por evidencias contextuales pertinentes, lo cual exige una capacidad de investigación sostenida a través del tiempo.
Deborah Salvo +13 more
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