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Undergraduate Education Abroad in Community Settings: Pedagogical Opportunities for Librarians [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

The Network State, Exit, and the Political Economy of Venture Capital

open access: yesAntipode, 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Gulf Stream Voyage: Using Real Time Data in the Classroom [PDF]

open access: yes
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
core   +1 more source

Volumetric mediations: Atmospheres of crisis and unbelonging in humanitarian drone documentaries

open access: yesArea, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Ocean Literacy Opportunities in Urban Marine Ecosystems: Gorgonian Populations in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain)

open access: yesOcean and Society
Urban marine ecology, an emerging field in marine research, presents new opportunities to promote ocean literacy and contribute to the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030).
Janire Salazar   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A System Dynamics Approach to Increasing Ocean Literacy

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2019
Ocean Literacy (OL) has multiple aspects or dimensions: from knowledge about how the oceans work and our impact on them, to attitudes toward topics such as sustainable fisheries, and our behaviour as consumers, tourists, policy makers, fishermen, etc.
Matthew Ashley   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Ocean literacy for an Ocean constitution

open access: yesGlobal Constitutionalism, 2023
AbstractFirmly cemented in history as a connector of people, a facilitator for trade and transport routes and a driver of culture and heritage, the ocean has directly influenced globalization, and humanity more generally, for generations. While the ocean was perhaps once viewed as infinite and insurmountable, globally our oceans, coasts and seas have ...
openaire   +1 more source

Informal Institutions and Multinationals' Drive Towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Dark‐Side Perspective

open access: yesBusiness 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
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding the Internet: Model, Metaphor, and Analogy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
published or submitted for ...
McFadden, Thomas G.
core  

Optimal Timing of Term Births by Maternal Region of Birth: Elective Induction of Labor Compared to Expectant Management in Victoria, Australia

open access: yesBirth, 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
wiley   +1 more source

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