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The Network State, Exit, and the Political Economy of Venture Capital
Antipode, EarlyView.Abstract This article focuses on the Network State movement as embodying the venture capital (VC) logic of exit. Exit constitutes both a strategy for lucrative returns and an ideology seeking out new territories for financial and technological speculation.
Olivier Jutel
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Volumetric mediations: Atmospheres of crisis and unbelonging in humanitarian drone documentaries
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper contributes to scholarship on drones’ more‐than‐military realms as they pertain to the atmospheres they create in visual culture. Focusing on two humanitarian drone documentaries, Ai Weiwei's Human Flow (2017) and Morgan Knibbe's Those Who Feel the Fire Burning (2014), I examine how their drone cinematography visualises the ...
Beryl Pong
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores the influence of informal institutions (including its dark side) on multinational enterprises (MNEs) in promoting sustainable development goals (SDGs) in a developing nation. Using qualitative interviews, we find that informal institutions, including “crime” and “corruption,” increase telecommunication MNEs' support of SDGs.
Ugbede Umoru +3 more
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Education SciencesIn the context of L2 academic reading, teachers tend to use a variety of question formats to assess students’ reading comprehension. Studies have revealed that not only question formats but also L2 language proficiency might affect how students use ...
Ray J. T. Liao, Kwangmin Lee
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Current: The Journal of Marine Education, 2020 This commentary shares a unique collaborative experience between a student and faculty mentor, made possible by the shift from in-person to virtual conferences during summer 2020.
Laura Guertin, Isabella Briseño
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Undergraduate Education Abroad in Community Settings: Pedagogical Opportunities for Librarians [PDF]
, 2019 As undergraduate possibilities for study and service abroad increase and develop strategically to address local community needs in settings in the Global South, there is greater opportunity for academic librarians to contribute expertise in supporting ...
Kutner, Laurie
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The Gulf Stream Voyage: Using Real Time Data in the Classroom [PDF]
This paper describes the Gulf Stream Voyage, an Internet-based multidisciplinary project which utilizes both real time data and primary source materials to help guide students to discover the science and history of the Gulf Stream.
Liesl Hotaling
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Birth, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Induction of labor (IOL) has been suggested to mitigate the elevated risks of perinatal mortality in migrant women. The aim was to estimate the rates of perinatal mortality, cesarean, instrumental birth, and admission to the special care nursery or neonatal intensive care unit (SCN/NICU) for births following IOL compared to ...
Sharon D. Weerasingha +5 more
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Itsasoari buruzko alfabetizazio zientifikoa DBHko ikasle eta etorkizuneko DBHko irakasleengan. Proposamen didaktikoa [PDF]
Ikastorratza.e-Revista de Didáctica, 2017 This work is focused on the learning-teaching difficulties of key concepts about ocean literacy. Obligatory Secondary Education (OSE) future teachers´ and OSE 4th degree students´ ideas about sea ecosystems were examined and conceptual difficulties were ...
Ana de Lara +3 more
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Using Dual-Language Books to Preserve Language & Culture in Alaska Native Communities [PDF]
, 2016 “Children learn their language on their mother’s lap.” This conventional wisdom from a Cup’ik Elder describes the approach used by many Alaska Native peoples to promote native language acquisition.
Bartles, Jonathan, Ohle, Kathryn
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