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ABSTRACT Deforestation and its social impacts are an enduring challenge in agrarian frontiers, especially in the tropics. Fueled by global demand for commodities, this process is mediated by ideas, concepts, meanings, and policies that uphold socioenvironmental degradation. A key and understudied—arena in which this mediation occurs is the sub‐national
Gabriela Russo Lopes, Fabio de Castro
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La educación militar en Colombia entre 1886 y 1907.
In historiography of the Colombian military, the process known as the Military Reform and the professionalization of the national army is said to have begun in 1907.
Mayra Fernanda Rey Esteban.
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ABSTRACT The current research focused on how competing narratives (i.e., dominant and resistance narratives) are endorsed among low‐status group members, through the case of the US military base issue in Okinawa, Japan. Specifically, we explored patterns of Okinawans’ narrative endorsement (i.e., dominant and resistance narratives surrounding the ...
Maho Aikawa, Andrew L. Stewart
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SIZE OF THE MILITARY SECTOR AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: A PANEL DATA ANALYSIS OF AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA [PDF]
We estimate the influence of defense spending and military labor use on economic growth in African and Latin American countries. Our model integrates disparate implications from the defense economics literature into a Barro-style model of economic growth
Jac C. Heckelman, Michael D. Stroup
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ABSTRACT Crises have the potential to transform social identities and foster collective action, yet little is known about how new identities emerge and how a sense of shared experience (SSE) sustains mobilisation beyond immediate group contexts. The present research investigated these processes among 495 displaced Ukrainians with 107 participants ...
Magdalena Skrodzka +5 more
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Who Loses: An examination of losses in housing net worth, non-housing assets, and total savings from 2007 to 2008 among American families [PDF]
This study models the loss in non-housing assets, increase in non-housing liabilities, and net change in housing value across people by education, ethnic, and occupational categories in the 2007-2008 collapse of Wall Street financial markets.
Nitz, Lawrence H.
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Neural Network–Assisted Metasurface Retroreflector With Wide‐Angle Adaptivity
This work proposes a wide‐angle, multi‐polarization, self‐sensing, and self‐adaptive intelligent metasurface retroreflector, with a planar profile and ultrathin thickness. By integrating a pre‐trained artificial neural network (ANN), the metasurface retroreflector can recognize the incident angle and promptly adapt to changes in the incoming wave.
Jing Ning +7 more
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Abstract Aim This study aimed to examine the association of job‐related stressors and insomnia; to determine the association of psychological capital and insomnia; and to explore whether psychological capital mediates the association between job‐related stressors and insomnia among Chinese nurses. Design A cross‐sectional questionnaire survey.
Juan Du +8 more
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Comprehensive Fitness Assessment in a Professional Military Education Cohort: A Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]
Lawson DJ +9 more
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