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Coping Practices of Small‐ and Medium‐Sized Enterprises Facing Power Asymmetry in Digital Platform Business

open access: yesStrategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital platform (DP) enterprises have risen to the top of the global economy by inverting traditional business models. They earn money through matchmaking, transaction facilitation, and efficient orchestration of other stakeholders' resources.
Lukas R. G. Fitz, Jochen Scheeg
wiley   +1 more source

Narratives about Founding Cult Places and Forming Folkloric Biographies: Between Sacralization and Polemics

open access: yesJournal of Folklore and Popular Culture
Cult places establishing motivated by an order/vow which a person receives in a dream or vision is an international motif, well known in Serbian folkloristic and literary tradition, too.
Smiljana Djordjević Belić
doaj   +1 more source

Styrene and its natural analogues: accumulation and sustainable production methods

open access: yesJournal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.
Abstract Styrene, also known as vinyl benzene, is a colourless, highly volatile petrochemical that serves as a key monomer in the production of polystyrene and styrene‐butadiene rubber. Its industrial synthesis via the alkylation of benzene with ethylene relies on fossil fuels, requiring high temperatures and toxic catalysts that contribute to ...
Mwafaq Ibdah   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

CARTEA: REPROGRAFIE POSTMODERNĂ

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Umanistice, 2007
The electronic book is the product of the postmodern culture and of a civilization based on technologies. An on-linebook is the product of a cult of book and media culture.
USM ADMIN
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Beyond Reality Avoidance: Unraveling the Paradox of Escapism Through Self‐Monitoring and Autonomy Mechanisms for Consumers' Life Satisfaction

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study introduces the Paradox of Escapism, exploring how the act of escaping reality can evolve from a short‐term avoidance strategy to a mechanism for self‐regulation and enhanced life satisfaction. Employing five rigorous, multimethod investigations, including qualitative interviews and sentiment analysis (Study 1), Structural Equation ...
Thamiris Magalhães de Sousa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“By Faith Alone”: New Religions, Cult Experts, and the Media [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of ‏The 3rd International Academic Conference on Research in Social Sciences, 2021
openaire   +1 more source

Advancing Therapies for Mycobacterial Diseases: From Small Molecules to Host‐Directed Strategies

open access: yesMedicinal Research Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global burden of multidrug‐resistant tuberculosis (MDR‐TB) and the rising incidence of nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections highlight the urgent need for innovative therapeutic strategies. Current treatments are prolonged, toxic, and increasingly compromised by resistance and limited diagnostic capacity.
Tânia Silva   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crisis Preparation, Capacity Building, and Community Resilience: Lessons From Maui

open access: yesNonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2023 Maui wildfires provide a unique context to explore the impact of nonprofit crisis networks taking a proactive role in community crisis response, leveraging resources, expertise, and networks. The Hawaiʻi Community Foundation (HCF) has been a key player in Maui's local response, providing critical support, mobilizing volunteers, and ...
Lauren Azevedo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Use of Marian Sculptures in Late Medieval Swedish Parish Churches

open access: yesCollegium Medievale, 2015
This article discusses the use of wooden Marian sculptures in Swedish parish churches during the Middle Ages. By analysing the Marian sculptures' context, design and materiality together with vernacular devotional literature, I suggest that these ...
Jonas Carlquist
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Resilience for restoration: Insights from the Northern Great Plains native seed system

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Native plants are essential to ecological restoration and culturally important to local and Tribal communities, yet native seed systems across the United States (US) struggle to meet restoration demand. In the US Northern Great Plains, land conversion of native ecosystems means restoration potential is high but constrained by an underdeveloped
Elena Friedman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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