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The role of membership change on knowledge transfer in groups [PDF]
Groups can capitalize on knowledge to the extent that it is shared among its members. However, groups are in constant flux as its membership structure changes with new members joining and others exiting continuously. In this paper, we examine the effects
Manuel Portugal Ferreira, Sungu Armagan
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All the bedrooms a stage: Reconceptualizing sex as “performance” to sex as “rehearsal”
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract In the United States, sex is often spoken about in terms of performance, and naturally invokes language of theatricality. Sexual performance has been used as an umbrella term to refer to sexual satisfaction, behavior, embodiment, and also pathology in terms of conditions such as erectile dysfunction.
Taylor Harmon
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Social health maintenance organizations' service use and costs, 1985-89. [PDF]
, 1991 Presented in this article are aggregate utilization and financial data from the four social health maintenance organization (S/HMO) demonstrations that were collected and analyzed as a part of the national evaluation of the S/HMO demonstration project ...
Harrington, C, Newcomer, RJ
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S/elective belonging: how rural newcomer families with children become stayers
, 2018 Rural stayers are often defined as people who have never left their rural home region or village. However, rural regions and villages also receive new inhabitants. This paper explores if and how newcomers become inhabitants who stay put.
T. Haartsen, A. Stockdale
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Censorship: the Key to Lock-In? [PDF]
Markets for information and entertainment are frequently characterized by increasing returns to scale in production and distribution. This implies that incumbent technologies enjoy an advantage over newcomer technologies; such markets can become locked ...
Brendan M. Cunningham
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Highly Educated, New Foreign Workers' Acculturation and Coping Mechanisms in a Large Korean Company
Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The need for skilled foreign workers in South Korea (Korea hereafter) has grown substantially due Korea's changing workforce demographics, skill mismatch, transformation of business portfolios, and the pursuit of globalized business. As a result, large Korean companies have begun to recruit highly educated foreign workers for global talent ...
Dae Seok Chai
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Recognising the newcomer: education policy and teaching practices in Norway and England
Frontiers in EducationEducation policies in different countries recognise the needs and abilities of newcomer students in different ways, with consequences for their social inclusion and academic progress at school. We highlight the importance of context to debates around the
Emma Soye +3 more
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Language made fun: supporting EAL students in primary education
Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2019 Acquisition of English language skills is vital for the successful integration of children into English-medium Education. Newcomer children who are not proficient in the language of instruction may be left vulnerable to exclusion in the classroom and ...
Frances Kane +4 more
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Storage codes -- coding rate and repair locality [PDF]
, 2013 The {\em repair locality} of a distributed storage code is the maximum number of nodes that ever needs to be contacted during the repair of a failed node.
Hollmann, Henk D. L.
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