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Facilitating System Change With GOSR: Integrating AI and Human Collaboration

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Problem solving in complex domains requires approaches that encourage systems thinking, collaboration, and recognize multiple simultaneous solutions. Building from principles of General Systems Theory and existing problem structuring methods, we present a new method for supporting system partners working to address complex problems called GOSR.
Annika Voltan, Kevin Kells
wiley   +1 more source

Integrity Ministry: Watchdog, lapdog, or dead dog?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Integrity is central to public trust and good governance. Drawing on Queensland's recently established Minister for Integrity as a rare contemporary example, this article examines the concept, function, and practicalities of an integrity minister within a modern accountability framework.
Saxon McGregor, Jacob Deem
wiley   +1 more source

Antifa Theory: Beyond the Western Metaphysics of Maturity

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article I ask whether the main traditions of Western political thought, republicanism, conservatism, liberalism, and socialism, can supply an account of human flourishing capable of sustaining a broad antifascist movement. Each tradition defines full humanity as an achievement reserved for the mature adult and treats the child as a ...
Toby Rollo
wiley   +1 more source

What England Is and What It Claims to Be: Orwell on National Identity

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article suggests that George Orwell's body of work offers a rather unique and insightful two‐part conception of national identity in the context of England, made up of a moral inheritance—the values of liberty, fairness and decency—and a lived sensibility—the fluid, experiential quality of collective life expressed in shared customs ...
Sam Taylor Hill
wiley   +1 more source

[News Clip: Cotton maid]

open access: yes, 1959
Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the 1959 Maid of Cotton in ...
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Vital events, vital relations: the structure of relations in an identity database Événements vitaux, liens vitaux : la structure des liens dans une base de données d'identité civile

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) manages Pakistan's biometric‐based national identity database, one of the largest identification systems of its kind in the world. This article examines bureaucratic practices used during identity registration to record ‘vital events’ in the lives of citizens: birth, marriage, divorce, and death.
Zehra Hashmi
wiley   +1 more source

maid

open access: yes, 1973
maid nAn' he said, "Maid," he said, "I only nibbled a little bit out o' un; that's all..." form of address for a girl, in this case a schoolgirl)YesJ. D. A.

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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

Kitchen Maid Cabinets

open access: yes, 1920
In addition to the Hoosier Manufacturing Company, several other Indiana companies, like Sellers, Nappanee, Kitchen Maid, and McDougall, were manufacturing cabinets, similar in design, during the early part of the 20th century. In fact, the term “Hoosier”
Kitchen Maid Corporation
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The Gender of Heteroclites1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
wiley   +1 more source

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