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Social movements in world of warcraft [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Virtual worlds provide new forms of social interaction. They offer alternative spaces where social functions can be carried out in online three-dimensional virtual environments.
Mckenna, Brad   +6 more
core  

Studying the effects of digital arts-based interventions on teenagers’ social media usage, brain connectivity, and mental health: study protocol of the SMART project

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Psychotraumatology
Background: Social media (SM) has become ubiquitous among youth. However, which SM activities are beneficial or detrimental for the wellness of children and adolescents is still under debate.
Lucía Vaquero   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications in Uremic Toxins From 1991 to 2024

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Uremic toxins are a growing area of research in nephrology, with significant implications in the progression and treatment of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and the management of end‐stage kidney disease (ESKD). This bibliometric analysis aims to evaluate the global research trends, key contributors, and the impact of publications in ...
Yuh‐Shan Ho   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reciprocal control of viral infection and phosphoinositide dynamics

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Phosphoinositides, although scarce, regulate key cellular processes, including membrane dynamics and signaling. Viruses exploit these lipids to support their entry, replication, assembly, and egress. The central role of phosphoinositides in infection highlights phosphoinositide metabolism as a promising antiviral target.
Marie Déborah Bancilhon, Bruno Mesmin
wiley   +1 more source

From the working-class movement to the new social movements

open access: yes, 2014
In the early 1980s many social theorists claimed that the ‘New Social Move­ments’ (NSMs) were the authentic social movements of our time. This claim is discussed in relation to two traditions in the analysis of social movements.
Olofsson, Gunnar
core   +1 more source

Structural insights into an engineered feruloyl esterase with improved MHET degrading properties

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
A feruloyl esterase was engineered to mimic key features of MHETase, enhancing the degradation of PET oligomers. Structural and computational analysis reveal how a point mutation stabilizes the active site and reshapes the binding cleft, expading substrate scope.
Panagiota Karampa   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

State marionettes, phantom organisations or genuine movements? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Of all the rural social movements in the world, those in post-socialist Russia have been considered to be among the weakest. Nevertheless, triggered by the neo-liberal reforms in the countryside, state attention to agriculture and rising land conflicts ...
Visser, O. (Oane)   +5 more
core   +1 more source

New Social Movements and Collective Identities

open access: yesIztapalapa, 1999
This paper criticizes the position that holds that the only meaningful political actions and the only formation of significant political identities are related to the economic bases.
Aquiles Chihu Amparán
doaj  

"Otpor" - a postmodern Faust: new social movement, the tradition of enlightened reformism and the electoral revolution in Serbia [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofija i Društvo, 2006
Otpor is discussed in the text as a complex and contradictory new type of social movement, whose members attempted to contribute to the tradition of enlightened reform of social and political life in Serbia, simultaneously in a highly pragmatic and in a ...
Naumović Slobodan
doaj   +1 more source

Thirty years of Internet development. Lessons for Democracy: Internet as an opportunity for democratization of social life

open access: yesFides et Ratio, 2021
This year marks thirty years since Tim Berners Lee launched the Internet as the public domain on August 6, 1991. This date is symbolic because the Internet was already functioning for almost a year as an internal domain in the CERN  (the European ...
Piotr Dejneka
doaj   +1 more source

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