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Mandatory Audits of Private Companies
International Journal of Auditing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine mandatory audits using Spanish private companies to generate insight into (1) how audit thresholds vary in tightness and impact, (2) which audit thresholds are crossed to cause audit commencement and cessation, (3) whether firms take actions to avoid audits and (4) whether audits provide economic benefits.
Darren Henderson +2 more
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Selective admissions at universities in the United Kingdom aim to ensure a baseline language competence, yet, despite persistent achievement disparities across linguistic backgrounds, systematic comparisons of linguistic skills underpinning academic success remain rare.
Justyna Mackiewicz, Danijela Trenkic
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While electoral support in deeply divided societies is expected to follow segmental lines, parties often attract substantial backing from outside their core constituencies. This article examines why voters in Belgium's Brussels‐Capital Region—a consociational system designed to enable the peaceful cohabitation of the French and Dutch language ...
Benjamin Blanckaert +2 more
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Oxford Journal of Archaeology, EarlyView.Summary This article analyses the dynamics of Roman olive‐oil and wine production and commerce in present‐day France from the second half of the second century BC to the mid‐fourth century AD, drawing on a corpus of more than 7000 amphorae recovered from Gallic and Romano‐Gallic settlements across the French territory, excluding Alsace. The methodology
Álvaro Soto Hernández
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Speaking for Dionysus: Empathy and choral advocacy in Aristotle and Nietzsche
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract This essay argues for an abiding connection between empathy and advocacy by revealing their unrecognized parallels in Aristotle and Nietzsche. The argument makes three new claims. First, I identify an ancient form of sharing emotions, unnamed in but fundamental to Aristotle's Rhetoric, that I call “empathy by analogy.” Next, I show that the ...
Ellwood Wiggins
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The Frontiersmen as an Object of Czech Nationalism 1918–1935
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the phenomenon of the frontiersmen, that is, the Czech minority border communities, as a part of the discourse of the Czech nationalist movement. Via the example of the Czechoslovak National Democracy party, it traces the frontiersmen on two levels.
Dominik Šípoš
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Mushrooms are a ubiquitous and essential component in our biological environment and have been of interest to humans around the globe for millennia. Knowledge about mushrooms represents a prime example of cumulative culture, one of the key processes in human evolution.
Andrea Bender, Åge Oterhals
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Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 3, July/August/September 2026.The figure depicts the paper's theoretical grounding (i.e., in the Component Model of Reading), and the results and interpretations for each research question in support of the conclusion that displacement and migration experiences play a role in biliteracy acquisition and cross‐linguistic transfer.
Sarah Akkad, Kaja Jasińska
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Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
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Fitting in and standing firm: New, alternative women farmers in Australia and the Netherlands
Sociologia Ruralis, Volume 66, Issue 3, July 2026.ABSTRACT How is hegemonic agriculture produced, reproduced and challenged at the mesosocial level? We explore this question by examining the experiences of 37 farmers in Australia and the Netherlands who are ‘other’ in hegemonic agriculture: They are women, new to farming and engaged in alternative agriculture.
Lucie Newsome +2 more
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