Market orientation and national homicide rates
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract We studied the influence of market orientation on national homicide rates. Multiple theoretical traditions equate the development and dominance of markets with higher crime rates. Some traditional sociological theoretical claims, however, suggest market expansion should reduce violence.
William Alex Pridemore, Meghan L. Rogers
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Author Response: Lung Ultrasound in the Intensive Care Unit: Strengths, Limitations, and the Continued Role of Computed Tomography. [PDF]
Indian J Crit Care MedAl Tayar AS, Salem HA, Nasa P.
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Far From Routine: Employers' Recruitment and Control Strategies in Two Low Wage Sectors
Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contrary to HRM's prevailing view that low wage work is routine and not requiring specific HR strategies, this study reveals how employers within low wage sectors pursue active and diverse strategies to segment the labour force and shape the work package.
Eva Herman, Jill Rubery, Gail Hebson
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The Changing Geopolitics in the Arab World: Implications of the 2017 Gulf Crisis for Business
, 2019 The international community was caught by surprise on 5 June 2017 when Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt severed diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilizing the region.
Bouoiyour, Jamal, Selmi, Refk
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Improvement in the English Translations of Albrecht von Haller's Usong (1771)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The political novel Usong (1771), written by the Swiss physiologist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), is set in the fifteenth century and tells the story of a Mongolian prince who becomes the Emperor of Persia and redesigns the government of his empire to promote the happiness of his subjects.
Laura Tarkka
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The Heretic King: Possible Diagnoses of Pharaoh Akhenaten. [PDF]
CureusTurner MD, Schweiger K.
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines image–text relations in German illustrations of gambling around 1800, specifically focusing on the card game Pharo and the artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It shows Ramberg's technique of reuse and variation as well as the degree of satire in the designs and their accompanying descriptive or fictional texts.
Waltraud Maierhofer
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Detection and genotypes of piroplasms affecting ruminants in the New Valley Governorate, Egypt. [PDF]
BMC Vet ResBarghash SM +6 more
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Norwegian Blues? Rethinking the Idea of Middle Powers in an Era of Fuzzy Bifurcation
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Unsuccessful efforts to update the middle power concept for the contemporary international system have prompted calls for the concept to be “historicized”—to be retired from common use and treated as a purely historical term. The problem with this proposal is that “middle power” has become increasingly popular in the 2020s in analysis ...
Kim Richard Nossal
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Bronze Age make-up recipes from Sudanese Lower Nubia point to a greater diversity across cultural borders in ancient Northeast Africa. [PDF]
PLoS OneLemos R +7 more
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