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The Name\u27s the Game [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
An earlier set of solitaire puzzles based on word charades appeared as Musical Wordboxes in the August 1990 Word Ways. The Present article is a sequel with a new theme.
McManus, Christopher
core   +1 more source

Irish regional GDP since independence

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper constructs the first long‐run estimates of Irish regional gross domestic product (GDP) over the twentieth century and traces the relative economic performance of Ireland's regions since independence. Using an array of data sources available at a county level, output in agriculture, industry, and services in benchmark census years is
Alan de Bromhead, Seán Kenny
wiley   +1 more source

‘A Perpetually Disintegrating Synthesis’: Sartre on Bad Faith, Good Faith, and the Projects of Selfhood

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract An oft‐overlooked aspect of Sartre’s concept of selfhood is his rejection of good faith and sincerity as normative ideals. We argue that Sartre’s paradoxical treatment of good faith – claiming both that it is a manifestation of bad faith and the antithesis of it – holds a key to understanding Sartre’s account of selfhood.
Mark A. Wrathall, Wanda von Knobelsdorff
wiley   +1 more source

Black Fugitivity in the Sporting Workplace: The Story of Eniola Aluko

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Being a Black fugitive involves constant movement: to find and cultivate spaces of safety and hope. In this paper, I curate a sporting archive about the UK Black women's elite football player Eniola Aluko to read her as a Black fugitive. I demonstrate how she traversed a racist and anti‐Black sporting workplace—where she was unfairly demonized
Aarti Ratna
wiley   +1 more source

Searching for Jewish Ancestors before They Had a Fixed Family Name—Three Case Studies from Bohemia, Southern Germany, and Prague

open access: yesGenealogy
Anyone who traces their Jewish ancestors back to the 18th century and even further back in history encounters the challenge of looking for ancestry without the clue that a fixed family name provides.
Thomas Fürth
doaj   +1 more source

Prison Officers as Providers of Social Support: An Analysis of the Human Service Values and Power Dynamics Present in Prison Officers’ Accounts of Assisting Inmates

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Previous research has shown that prison officers often provide practical and emotional assistance to inmates. However, this has generally been depicted as a discretionary, conflicted and unrewarded task, sometimes met with hostility from their peers.
Cristina Güerri
wiley   +1 more source

“I Had Dual Feelings”: (Re)Storying With a Rural South Korean English Teacher

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes (or re‐stories) intrapersonal ideological tensions of a rural South Korean English teacher, Yeonghyeon1, as she negotiates competing discourses across local, national, and global scales within the context of a semi‐structured interview.
Ian Schneider
wiley   +1 more source

We are not alone ! (at least, most of us). Homonymy in large scale social groups

open access: yes, 2017
This article brings forward an estimation of the proportion of homonyms in large scale groups based on the distribution of first names and last names in a subset of these groups.
Charpentier, Arthur, Coulmont, Baptiste
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A Conversation With David Bellhouse

open access: yesInternational Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary David Richard Bellhouse was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 19 July 1948. He studied actuarial mathematics and statistics at the University of Manitoba (BA, 1970; MA, 1972) and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1975. After being an Assistant Professor for 1 year at his alma mater, he joined the University of Western ...
Christian Genest
wiley   +1 more source

Kilka uwag o statusie onomastycznym odapelatywnych nazw osobowych w antroponimii rosyjskiej XVI wieku

open access: yesStudia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2018
The article is devoted to the personal names derived from the appellatives, particularly to the question of their belonging to the anthroponymical categories of “name” and “nickname”.
Monika Osmańska
doaj  

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