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Shakespeare and Hobbes

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2012
Thomas Hobbes sought a reconstruction of philosophy, ethics, and politics that would end, once and for all, the bitter disputes that led to the English Civil War.
Nicholas Dungey
doaj   +1 more source

Exposure to Left‐Tail Risk, Risk Appetite, and Mutual Fund Flows

open access: yesFinancial Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a measure of aggregate tail risk, we show that a fund's sensitivity (exposure) to tail risk negatively affects the fund flows and the fund's performance. Further, a fund's tail risk sensitivity relates positively to the left‐tail risk measures of the fund.
Ali K. Malik
wiley   +1 more source

Promoting Foreign Language Enjoyment Through Displaying Affiliation in Collaborative Digital Multimodal Composing in Hong Kong ESL Classrooms: Insights From Translanguaging and Transpositioning Perspectives

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studies on classroom interactions suggest that displaying affiliation through linguistic and multimodal resources could promote positive emotions like enjoyment, thereby enhancing engagement and enthusiasm in second/foreign language learning.
Karen C. K. Choi, Kevin W. H. Tai
wiley   +1 more source

All the Disc’s a Stage: Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters as Metafiction

open access: yesColloquy: Text, Theory, Critique, 2019
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld is a post-structuralist landscape where stories are real and magic is a mediating force between reality and representation.
Prema Arasu
doaj   +1 more source

KOBİ’lerin Finansal Performansının MACBETH-COPRAS Bütünleşik Yaklaşımıyla Değerlendirilmesi

open access: yesJournal of Yasar University, 2019
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) form the basis of economic and social development in our country as in all over the world. SMEs need to measure their performance regularly in order to achieve sustainable growth and to sustain their existence in
Ejder Ayçin, Enver Çakin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“Queens of Ghost‐Land” 134 Years Later: Un‐Masking an Appalachian Witchcraft Accuser

open access: yesThe Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1891, newspapers across America printed a story about witches in the Appalachian Mountains and the alleged powers they possessed to control their small farming community. The article was scathing in accusation and ultimately contributed to continued othering of the women profiled, increasing their visible vulnerabilities of class, gender ...
Aíne Norris
wiley   +1 more source

Collaborative Value Modelling in corporate contexts with MACBETH

open access: yesInternational Conference on Information Technology and Quantitative Management, 2019
In complex organizational choices with consequences spread all over the organization, good management practice recommends the auscultation of the points of view of people from different operational areas, to inform a final decision-making body.
C. B. E. Costa   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The expected inflation risk premium in the U.S. stock market

open access: yesJournal of Financial Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article studies how expected inflation risk affects asset prices. We propose an ex‐ante, tradable proxy for this risk, derived from the term spread of gold futures prices. Using cross‐sectional and time series asset pricing tests, we show how an increase in expected inflation risk lowers contemporaneous prices and raises equity returns ...
Pascal Letourneau   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discovering Legacies: Fathers, Sons, Masculinities, and Equity Within Families

open access: yesJournal of Family Theory &Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, I examine how personal experiences within my family and my homeplace communities have shaped 20 years of basic and applied research, as well as theorizing, on fathering and masculinities. I focus on how my practice of reflexive research has led me to discover legacies of masculinities across generations of my own family ...
Kevin Roy
wiley   +1 more source

Somerset Maugham's Failings

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Allan Hepburn
wiley   +1 more source

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