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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

Rule or feel? The application of implicit and explicit knowledge of Filipino and Korean college students in responding to English tests [PDF]

Asian Journal of English Language Studies (AJELS), 2013
The study explores the manifestation of explicit and implicit knowledge among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and English as a Second Language (ESL) learners of a university in Manila.
Selwyn A. Cruz
doaj  

Behaviorist Theory in Philippine English L2 Acquisition: Transition Point from L1 Contact

European Journal of English Language Studies
Skinner’s behaviorist theory delineates how a child acquires L1; notwithstanding, what sets the present study apart from Skinner’s findings can be culled-out from the research context itself.
M. Estremera
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Host Exploitation by Cuckoos in China: A Review and Real‐Time Tracking Program for Parasitism Records

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
China is a global hotspot for cuckoo‐host diversity, with 17 cuckoo species, exploiting 142 host species. We reveal adaptive matching in body size and egg traits, along with niche partitioning among cuckoos, while identifying eight new host species.
Tao Liu, Canchao Yang
wiley   +1 more source

The structural features of English lexical bundles in academic essays written by Filipino college students [PDF]

Asian Journal of English Language Studies (AJELS), 2015
Lexical bundles are part of any writing production. As these recurrent word combinations appear in various written outputs, many linguists, students, and researchers have become interested in exploring such linguistic expressions.
Rey John Castro Villanueva
doaj  

Between Sustainable Development, Financialisation and Sovereign Debt Crisis: The Case of Blue Finance as Yet Another Iteration of the Washington Consensus

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As far as international economic law (IEL) is concerned, the ‘Washington Consensus’ generally refers to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s development finance policies and tools. It covers their application to their clients and borrowers with the support of Western governments. This acceptation is of particular interest
Leïla Choukroune
wiley   +1 more source

The Political Economy of Corruption: A Philippine Illustrationa [PDF]

This essay explores the nature, causes, and consequences of corruption as it pertains to entire regimes. Grand corruption is modeled as a type of unproductive rent-seeking at the highest levels of government.
James Roumasset
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Toxic Lead Pigment Exports From Rich to Poor Countries

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Lead poisoning affects one in three children globally, with large but neglected impacts on health and education. One important source of exposure is the use of lead as a pigment in the form of lead chromates, in paints, plastics, and even food. Lead chromates are toxic and safe alternatives exist: Its continued use is effectively prohibited in
Rory Todd, Lee Crawfurd, Rachel Bonnifield   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

English in a Post-Pandemic Context: The Case of Multilingual Filipino Day Care Children

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Day care centers in Zamboanga City in western Mindanao, Philippines use the home language as a medium of communication as they carry out daily lessons for young children through songs, stories, games, and various social activities. Workers at the study’s
Aireen Barrios
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