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Performativity and Financial Markets: Option Pricing in the Late 19th Century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The paper revisits the performativity thesis in economics stressing the plural character of knowledge, which includes not only scientific models but also every form of practical knowledge that systematizes the visible and the articulable experience of ...
Rutterford, Janette   +1 more
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

Divulgar o Brasil civilizado. O uso da imprensa e a divulgação da literatura como meios de remodelar a imagem do Brasil na França (1883-1901)

open access: yesLes Cahiers de Framespa, 2020
Fighting against the stereotype of « exotic Brazil », present in the French press of the late 19th century, Brazilian propagandists – among whom Count de Barral and José de Santa-Anna Nery – tried to establish an image of their country as modern and ...
Tanize Costa
doaj   +1 more source

Preliminary observations on the stylistic change in direct speech encoding strategies in Malay and Indonesian

open access: yesNusa, 2022
Classical Malay (CM) narratives feature a style with highly schematized structures, with the direct speech (DS) encoding strategy as a key example; the pre-DS frame, comprising a root and speaker constituent (RF), is predominant.
Asako Shiohara, Yuta Sakon
doaj   +1 more source

Past Influenza pandemics and their effect in Malta [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The influenza virus type A has caused repeated pandemics throughout the 19th and 20 th century causing significant morbidity and mortality on a worldwide scale.
Savona-Ventura, Charles
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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to ...
Ludger Wößmann   +3 more
core   +8 more sources

Work Versus Force: Simultaneous Processes for Describing Interactions

open access: yesAdvanced Physics Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving a unified description of interactions remains an open challenge in theoretical physics, which currently describes four fundamental forces. This situation may be viewed differently when interactions are formulated in terms of processes (work as actio) rather than forces (force as actio), not only at the macroscopic level but also at ...
Grit Kalies   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction to “Protestant Christianity in South Korea: The Dynamic Relationship Between Church and State”

open access: yesReligions
The study of Korean Protestantism can be traced back to the writings of missionaries in the late 19th century [...]
Kaspars Kļaviņš, Ildze Šķestere
doaj   +1 more source

Trabecular bone ontogeny of the human talus

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Studies of trabecular ontogeny may provide insight into the factors that drive healthy bone development. There is a growing understanding of how the juvenile skeleton responds to these influences; however, gaps in our knowledge remain. This study aims to identify ontogenetic trabecular patterns and regional changes during development within ...
Rebecca A. G. Reid   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sites in Northern Louisiana with Major Collections of Historic Caddo and Other Native American Pottery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Archaeological sites in northern Louisiana that date to the 18th and 19th centuries which have yielded significant amounts of Native American pottery are plotted on the accompanying map, and briefly summarized below.
Girard, Jeffery S.
core   +1 more source

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