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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tourism is a significant sector on the Svalbard archipelago. The increase in visitors and tourism activities has reshaped the local community of Longyearbyen, brought new economic opportunities, and put greater pressure on the local environment.
Julien Lebel +3 more
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A Systems Thinking Approach to Mitigating Xenophobia in South Africa for Socio‐Economic Development
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Economic growth in South Africa has led to significant influx of migrants, especially from the African continent, searching for greener pastures. The influx of migrants in South Africa has given rise to competition for scarce resources between locals and migrants.
Y. S. Nyam, O. Kunguma, O. T. Selelo
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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Technology for Whom and for What? A Global South View of Tech Diplomacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International politics is linked to its technical‐social character. Also, technology is socially constructed and thereby not entirely neutral or impartial. A tech‐driven geopolitical landscape has been a defining feature of contemporary world politics.
Eugenio V. Garcia
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Annotating honorifics denoting social ranking of referents [PDF]
, 2007 This paper proposes an annotating scheme that encodes honorifics (respectful words). Honorifics are used extensively in Japanese, reflecting the social relationship (e.g. social ranks and age) of the referents.
Nariyama, Shigeko +2 more
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China's Strategic Approach to Tech Diplomacy in a Time of Global Uncertainty
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the wake of U.S.‐China technological competition and the COVID‐19 pandemic, “tech diplomacy” has gained prominence in Chinese political and academic discourse. This concept is often ideologically framed to critique Western hegemonic narratives perceived as hindering China's technological advancement.
Zhao Alexandre Huang, Xiang Meng
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German Perception Verbs: Automatic Classification of Prototypical and Multiple Non-literal Meanings [PDF]
, 2014 This paper presents a token-based automatic classification of German perception verbs into literal vs. multiple non-literal senses. Based on a corpus-based dataset of German perception verbs and their systematic meaning shifts, we identify one verb of ...
David, Benjamin +2 more
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Norwegian Blues? Rethinking the Idea of Middle Powers in an Era of Fuzzy Bifurcation
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Unsuccessful efforts to update the middle power concept for the contemporary international system have prompted calls for the concept to be “historicized”—to be retired from common use and treated as a purely historical term. The problem with this proposal is that “middle power” has become increasingly popular in the 2020s in analysis ...
Kim Richard Nossal
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Automatically extracting polarity-bearing topics for cross-domain sentiment classification [PDF]
, 2011 Joint sentiment-topic (JST) model was previously proposed to detect sentiment and topic simultaneously from text. The only supervision required by JST model learning is domain-independent polarity word priors.
Alani, Harith, He, Yulan, Lin, Chenghua
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