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Market and Nonmarket Strategies in Focus: How Entrepreneurs Tackling the Grand Challenge of Waste Management Navigate Institutional and Market Adversity in Ghana

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Waste management remains a critical grand challenge in African countries. While entrepreneurship has been a viable strategy for addressing this challenge, it is fraught with constraints. This study investigates the strategies orchestrated by entrepreneurs to navigate adversity in Waste management and ensure the social and economic viability of
Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong, Abiodun Samuel Adegbile, Augustine Awuah Peprah, Bede Akorige Atarah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indian Democracy Under Threat: The BJP’s Online Authoritarian Populism as a Means to Advance an Ethnoreligious Nationalist Agenda in the 2019 General Election

International Journal of Communication, 2022
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under Narendra Modi has been a pioneer of technologically enabled authoritarian populism, elected by a landslide in 2014 and reelected in 2019.
Gillian Bolsover
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Pandemic Im/mobilities, reproductive injustices, and assisted reproductive technology use among Taiwanese LGBTQ parents

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how mobility restrictions imposed by governments during the COVID‐19 pandemic intensified reproductive and mobility injustices. It traces shifting configurations of privilege and inequality within marginalized groups whose reproductive desires remain legally and socially unrecognized.
Sara L. Friedman
wiley   +1 more source

Conversion Rate Optimization through Evolutionary Computation

, 2017
Conversion optimization means designing a web interface so that as many users as possible take a desired action on it, such as register or purchase.
Brundage, Myles, Cordell, Ron, Dean, Randy, Epstein, Jonathan, Iscoe, Neil, Lamba, Gurmeet, Miikkulainen, Risto, Nazari, Sam, Schoolland, Cory, Shagrin, Aaron   +9 more
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The influence of social media on the decision to undergo plastic surgery [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Plástica
Introduction: Over the years and with the proportional growth of social media, focused mainly on the cult of the body and perfection, the demand for plastic surgeries has increased overwhelmingly, awakening an endless desire for body change, most of the ...
Alexandre Kataoka, Camila Cristina Silva Mendes, Nikole Guimarães Soares Lello, Ruaida Chahine Saada, Maria Rita dos Reis Kapritchkoff   +4 more
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The Disquiet of Quiet Quitting: Definitional Clarity, Theoretical Pathways, and Future Research

Human Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Quiet quitting (QQ) has emerged as a prominent topic in both popular press and academic research, reflecting shifts in employees' engagement, effort allocation, and responses to contemporary work pressures. This review synthesizes findings from 11 papers published in a recent Special Issue on The Disquiet of Quiet Quitting.
Solon Magrizos, Lauren E. Aydinliyim, Dorothea Roumpi, Caitlin M. Porter, Jean M. Phillips, John E. Delery   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enclaving and cultural resonance in Black "Game of Thrones" fandom

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2019
Because of the ways fandom is constructed as white, Black fans are often overlooked or marginalized. Black Game of Thrones (2011–) fans create a parallel culturally resonant fandom organized around an African American Vernacular English–inflected ...
Sarah Florini
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Is the Internet Ruining Our Lives? [PDF]

Review of Andrew Keen's "The Cult of the Amateur: How Blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the Rest of Today’s User-generated Media Are Destroying Our Economy, Our Culture, and Our Values".
Marianne Rogoff
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Flaunting it on Facebook: Young adults, drinking cultures and the cult of celebrity [PDF]

, 2014
Copyright © Antonia Lyons; Tim McCreanor; Fiona Hutton; Ian Goodwin; Helen Moewaka Barnes; Christine Griffin; Kerryellen Vroman; Acushla Dee O’Carroll; Patricia Niland; Lina Samu Print publication available from: http://www.drinkingcultures.info/Young
Barnes, Helen Moewaka, Goodwin, Ian, Griffin, Christine, Hutton, Fiona, Kerryellen, Vroman, Lyons, Antonia, McCreanor, Tim, Niland, Patricia, O’Carroll, Acushla Dee, Samu, Lina   +9 more
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Beyond “you are what you eat”: Unlocking gut microbiota‐mediated biotransformation of dietary phytochemicals

iMetaOmics, EarlyView.
The “efficacy paradox” of phytochemicals, low bioavailability yet significant health benefits, is associated with gut microbiota, which biotransforms dietary precursors into bioactive metabolites, enabling systemic effects. Thus, health outcomes of diet depend not just on intake “the rainbow”, but on gut microbial metabolism, redefining “you are what ...
Peng Yang, Ren‐You Gan
wiley   +1 more source