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Doing Autoethnography, Teaching Autoethnography as a White Woman Architect‐Educator‐Researcher in South Africa

open access: yesInternational Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This autoethnographic study lies at the intersection of architectural, teaching and research practice through the lens of an architect‐teacher‐researcher working in post‐Apartheid South Africa. The research traces a shift from unconscious design practice to a more conscious, critical and careful practice through practice‐based design research ...
Sandra Felix
wiley   +1 more source

Product Positioning and Incentives to Innovate

open access: yesJournal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper shows that product positioning affects the incentives to invest in process innovation. The result is found using a model of price competition with three firms under horizontal product differentiation—and then extended to a more general Bertrand triopoly.
Emanuele Bacchiega, Paolo G. Garella
wiley   +1 more source

Settler Sociology: Eugenic Responses to Imperial Crises in the 20th Century

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the twentieth century, academic concerns about changes in the racial demographics of the United States emanated from the potential crisis of settler colonial decline. In their references to previous empires, stories of contact between people groups, and changes in demographics, settler scholars worked to provide solutions to the ever ...
Heidi Nicholls
wiley   +1 more source

“Why?”: C. Wright Mills on the Spirit of the Classical Sociological Tradition and Positivist Versus Critical Sociology

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite their very diverse interests, the classical sociological thinkers were concerned with analyzing the dramatic social transformations in the wake of colonialism, slavery, and modern industrial capitalism as well as the multiple revolutions, particularly in relation to the new forms of social inequalities and power disparities.
Zaheer Baber
wiley   +1 more source

Lucid Dreaming Frequency Associated With Grey–White Matter Networks: An Exploratory Multimodal MRI Study

open access: yesJournal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Lucid dreaming, defined as the experience of becoming aware of dreaming while dreaming, offers a unique window into a state of consciousness characterised by a blending of the sensory vividness of REM sleep with the self‐awareness of wakefulness. While past functional imaging has shed light on the neural activity supporting lucid dreaming, the
Nicola De Pisapia   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Optimal Mean–Variance Selling Problem With Finite Horizon

open access: yesMathematical Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The optimal mean–variance selling problem seeks to determine a dynamically optimal stopping time in the nonlinear problem sup0≤τ≤TE(Xτ)−cVar(Xτ)$\sup _{0 \le \tau \le T} \left[ \mathsf {E}\,\!(X_\tau) - c\, \mathsf {V}ar\,\!(X_\tau) \right]$, where X$X$ is a geometric Brownian motion with strictly positive drift, the supremum is taken over ...
Peter Johnson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Institutional Changes, Effective Demand, and Inequality: A Structuralist Model of Secular Stagnation

open access: yesMetroeconomica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the factors driving economic stagnation and inequality in the US over recent decades. We study a demand‐driven model with joint adjustment of the functional distribution and capacity utilization in the short run, and explore the dynamics of wealth accumulation and labor productivity growth in the long run.
Vinicius Curti Cícero, Daniele Tavani
wiley   +1 more source

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