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Side-Steppers and Original-Firsts: The Overseas Chevron Controversy and Canadian Identity in the Great War [PDF]
, 2012 Badges of rank, qualification, and achievement can play significant, it not always explicit, roles in military culture. In late 1917 the British War Office instituted a new award, overseas service chevrons, to recognize service abroad for all ranks and ...
Iarocci, Andrew
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Assessment of pupils’ IT-competence in Great Britain schools [PDF]
У статті висвітлюються підходи до оцінювання ІК-компетентності учнів шкіл Великої Британії в період упровадження освітньої реформи. Основним критерієм щодо проведення оцінювання навчальних досягнень учнів з Комп’ютингу є цілі і завдання, окреслені ...
Малицька, І.Д.
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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
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Meteorological measurements at Auchencorth Moss from 1995 to 2016
Geoscience Data Journal, 2019 The Auchencorth Moss atmospheric observatory has being measuring meteorological parameters since 1995. The site was originally set‐up to measure the deposition of sulphur dioxide at a site that represented the vegetation and climate typical of NW Europe,
Mhairi Coyle +15 more
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Using Problem Frames and projections to analyze requirements for distributed systems [PDF]
, 2004 Subproblems in a problem frames decomposition frequently make use of projections of the complete problem context. One specific use of projec-tions occurs when an eventual implementation will be distributed, in which case a subproblem must interact with ...
Haley, Charles B. +2 more
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Prophets With Enchantment: Framing Christian Climate Activism
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues for a re‐enchantment of studies of contemporary climate change activism. It focuses upon Christian climate activists in the UK and how they are reinterpreting their theological beliefs in ways that mobilise religious communities.
Gemma Edwards, Finlay Malcolm
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Class identity is a crucial sociological concept, but is only ever measured at the individual level. In this paper, we ask: do groups have class identities? And do those class identities correspond with material resources? To answer these questions, we examine data from 31 of the most prominent American religious denominations in the early ...
Tessa Huttenlocher, Melissa Wilde
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Thirteenth Amendment and the Regulation of Custom [PDF]
, 2012 Custom is an underdeveloped concept in Thirteenth Amendment jurisprudence. While a substantial body of work has explored the technical meaning of custom as it applies to § 1983 and, to a lesser extent, Congress’s power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment,
Miller, Darrell A. H.
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The Cost of Love: Emotional Labour and Moral Tensions in the Lives of Chinese Young Carers
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Like adults, children also provide care. This article explores the emotional labour of young carers who care for ill or disabled family members in China, a context where children's caregiving remains largely invisible in both policy and scholarship.
Kefan Xue, Kaidong Guo
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.In this study, we tested whether white and yellow morphs of the common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) adopt alternative strategies shaped by the immuno‐competence handicap hypotheses (ICHH). We found that testosterone‐induced immune suppression was stronger in white males, while aggression decreased in both morphs.
Roberto Sacchi +5 more
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