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Variation in food availability affects the population age structure of Atlantic puffins Fratercula arctica in the Faroe Islands

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Across their entire Atlantic breeding range, Atlantic puffins Fratercula arctica have experienced decreases in food availability, often leading to population declines. The species is one of the most numerous seabirds in Føroyar (the Faroe Islands, in English) but has faced apparent, unquantified population declines.
Anne N.M.A. Ausems   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Khrushchev Report

open access: yesSfera Politicii, 2013
The Twentieth CPSU Congress was crucial for the evolution of the USSR, as well as for the other communist countries, by triggering the process of de-Stalinisation.
Louis Ulrich
doaj  

Conceptualizing and measuring consumers’ negative attitudes towards online shopping

open access: yesBritish Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the advantages of online shopping, increasing evidence indicates the prevalence of negative consumer attitudes towards online shopping (NATOS). Yet existing research exhibits a nearly exclusive focus on measuring positive attitudes, creating limited conceptual breadth. Moreover, despite the existence of conceptually related constructs (
Kaj‐Johanna Stichnoth   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Revelations of Blessed Angela — the problem of authorship of visions

open access: yesРоссийский журнал истории Церкви
The book "Revelations of Blessed Angela" ("The Phenomenon of the gifts of the Almighty sent down in the Spirit of Blessed Mother Angela of Foligno", hereinafter — "Revelations...") as a historical source attracts very little attention in Russian ...
Yu. V. Rodionova
doaj   +1 more source

A Conceptual Model of Investor Behavior [PDF]

open access: yes
Based on a survey of behavioral finance literature, this paper presents a descriptive model of individual investor behavior in which investment decisions are seen as an iterative process of interactions between the investor and the investment environment.
Kaymak, U., Lovric, M., Spronk, J.
core   +1 more source

Overconfidence? [PDF]

open access: yes
Many studies have shown that people display an apparent overconfidence. In particular, it is common for a majority of people to describe themselves as better than average.
Benoît, Jean-Pierre, Dubra, Juan
core   +4 more sources

Levels of reality: portraiture in African art [PDF]

open access: yes, 1980
African Studies Center Working Paper No ...
Borgatti, Jean
core  

Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
wiley   +1 more source

Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
wiley   +1 more source

Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
wiley   +1 more source

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