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Mission Impossible: COVID-Less Movie Theater

open access: yes, 2021
In today’s world, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected many lives and forced the people to take safety precautions like never before. Therefore, designing an environmentally friendly theatre minimizing germ propagation using filtration mechanisms is a valuable project, as it would help struggling businesses, and give people a chance to enjoy a day ...
Henderson, Colby   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

REPAIR AND RECONSTRUCTION FOR URBAN COMMONING: The Making of the Liberated Spaces in Naples

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Commoning requires repair. Where capitalist logics of accumulation, enclosure and exclusion produce abandoned space through the city, urban commoners remake that space to serve the needs of inhabitants. Without hiding the paradoxes and risks of repair, based on years‐long ethnography in the Liberated Spaces in Naples, Italy, we demonstrate how
Martina Locorotondo, Adam Fishwick
wiley   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

They Survived the Conversion from 35mm to Digital, so Now What? The Future of America’s Small-Town Art House Theaters

open access: yes, 2015
This paper explores the vital role art house movie theaters play in their communities, particularly in bringing film culture to small towns. I argue that art house theaters have a symbiotic relationship with their communities (particularly small towns ...
Marianelli, Morgan H.
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Convertibility of Cultural Capital: A Longitudinal Study of University Students From 2017 to 2024

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A defining feature of cultural capital is its propensity for accumulation and the potential of its convertibility. However, there are a lack of studies that would explore how different forms of cultural capital could be employed as an advantage.
Ondřej Špaček
wiley   +1 more source

On the need and contents of a specific addiction recovery research agenda

open access: yesAddiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background For decades knowledge about the etiology, epidemiology, neurobiology, typology, and treatment of addiction in various populations has been well documented and widely disseminated. In more recent years, there has been a growing interest in investigating the prevalence, multiple pathways, and mechanisms that facilitate sustained ...
William L. White, John F. Kelly
wiley   +1 more source

Piracy, Music and Movies: A Natural Experiment [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper investigates the effects of illegal file sharing (piracy) on music and movie sales. The Swedish implementation of the European Union directive IPRED on April 1, 2009 suddenly increased the risk of being caught and prosecuted for file sharing ...
Adermon, Adrian, Liang, Che-Yuan
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
wiley   +1 more source

What's in the Bin? A Waste Audit of an Australian Tertiary Ear, Nose and Throat Outpatient Clinic

open access: yesANZ Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Healthcare contributes 4.4% of global emissions. Climate change contributes to vector‐borne diseases, food insecurity and morbidity and mortality associated with extreme weather. Ear, nose and throat (ENT) outpatient clinics are particularly resource intensive, yet their environmental impact has not been quantified.
Cassie Dow, Daron Cope, Robert Eisenberg
wiley   +1 more source

Validity assessment for technical skills and stress management of the HelpMeSee® Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery module

open access: yesActa Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose To assess the validity of the HelpMeSee Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery (MSICS) module as a virtual reality training tool for technical skills and stress management in ophthalmology. Methods This prospective study enrolled 47 volunteer surgeons from five groups: four groups of eye surgeons with increasing experience (novice ...
Lea Dormegny   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

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