Political Fictionality: Vladislav Surkov and the Rise of the Authorial State
The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article introduces the concept of political fictionality as a theoretical framework for analyzing the convergence of literary authorship and political power in Russia during the Putin era, using Vladislav Surkov—a longtime presidential advisor and ideologue as well as fiction writer under the pseudonym Natan Dubovitskii—as its principal ...
Ekaterina Vassilieva
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Jostling for Advantage: Licensing and Entry into Patent Portfolio Races [PDF]
Licensing in a patent thicket allows firms to either avoid or resolve hold-up. Firms' R&D incentives depend on whether they license ex ante or ex post. We develop a model of a patent portfolio race, which allows for endogenous R&D efforts, to study firms'
Graevenitz, Georg von, Siebert, Ralph
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Unmarked Emotional States and the Affective Anchoring of Continuity
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Narratives around emotions often foreground remarkable episodes that interrupt situations, producing a “rollercoaster” image of emotional life that leaves its stability underdescribed. To analyze the emotional dimension of social continuity, this article theorizes unmarked emotional states (UES): culturally default, interactionally unobtrusive
Lorenzo Sabetta
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Between principle and practice: a qualitative study of perceived relevance and impact of the Ethiopian national medical licensing examination. [PDF]
BMC Med EducBelay LM +4 more
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School Science and Mathematics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents validity evidence for the Computer Adaptive Test–Problem Solving Measure (CAT‐PSM), a computer‐adaptive assessment of middle grades mathematical problem‐solving performance. Targeted to grades 6–8, the CAT‐PSM draws on content aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM).
Jonathan D. Bostic +3 more
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Patent licensing in spatial competition: Does pre-innovation cost asymmetry matter? [PDF]
We consider the optimal licensing strategy of an insider patentee in a circular city of Salop’s model and in a linear city of Hotelling’s model when firms have asymmetric pre-innovation marginal costs of production and compete in prices.
Bouguezzi, Fehmi, Poddar, Sougata
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What's past is prologue: epigenetic memory links transient inflammation to future disease. [PDF]
Signal Transduct Target TherKeating ST, El-Osta A, El-Osta A.
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Brokerage in Oceania reconsidered: Positionality, agency, morality in a (dis)ordered world
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This paper introduces a special issue examining brokerage in Oceania amid intensifying geopolitical competition, resource extraction, labour mobility and shifting development regimes. Building on renewed global interest in brokerage as a set of practices, we argue that brokers in Oceania operate within—and actively reshape—conditions of ...
Monica Minnegal
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Promise, Mimicry, and Surveillance: Responsibly Integrating Artificial Intelligence With Socratic Inquiry in Medical Education. [PDF]
JMIR Med EducSánchez JD.
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