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Mary Yukari Waters. The laws of evening. Scribner, 2003 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Mary Yukari Waters is an American Japanese-Irish author who, in her collection of stories The Laws of Evening, writes about Japanese culture, usually women’s experiences adapting to their lives in this culture. Many of the stories reflect the changes in
Rodrigues, Jill
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Should We Respect LLMs? A Cross-Lingual Study on the Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
We investigate the impact of politeness levels in prompts on the performance of large language models (LLMs). Polite language in human communications often garners more compliance and effectiveness, while rudeness can cause aversion, impacting response quality.
arxiv  

Malkom Khan’s thoughts on modernization of political culture in Iran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Malkom Khan with his goal in this period of establishing constitutional monarchy gave priority to political culture and criticized the dominant traditional political culture of society.
Ku Samsu, Ku Hasnita, Shahriari, Kamyab
core   +1 more source

Considering the animating ethos of designing digital first unemployment services: On the motivation of others

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the animating ethos of digital unemployment services. Unlike human‐to‐human services, where the intention of policy is normally mediated by professionals, digital services are fully designed in the policy imagination. As a result, it is a pressing issue to understand the ethos that animates their development.
Ray Griffin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Muslim Women Political Leaders and Electoral Participation in Muslim-Majority Countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper focuses on Muslim women political leaders and their agency in the modern world. While some Muslim women have a difficult time participating politically, others actively act in policy and government.
Rolland, Abby M.
core   +1 more source

Beauty Culture in Post-Reform Vietnam: Glocalization or Homogenization? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This essay re-examines the global beauty culture and ideals as established by the West and continually re-imagined worldwide through three primary lenses of race, gender, and political economy.
Nguyen, Hong-Kong
core  

Community music, identity and belonging among Dutchies in Australia: Comparing assimilation to multiculturalism

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses variations in the experiences of Dutch identity and belonging to a music‐making group in the Dutch migrant community in Melbourne, Australia. It answers the research question “Which variations of ‘Dutch identity’ are there for the participants and how does music‐making relate to this?”. Feelings of identity and belonging
Karien Dekker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The  Religious‐Text Features in Imam  Khomeini’s  Views  and  Their Influence on the Jurisprudential‐ Political Thought [PDF]

open access: yesسپهر سیاست, 2015
The mechanism of Imam Khomeini’s dynamic ijtihad, besides developing a  systematic  relationship  with  the  sources  (the  Qur’an,  tradition, consensus and wisdom), enjoys a logical link with time and space and hence extracts the regulations for the ...
Gholam Hassan Moqimi
doaj  

Albanian Political-Economics: Albanian Political-Economics: Consequences of a Clan Culture [PDF]

open access: yes
We study the politico-economic interaction in a country in transition from a communist regime to a democratic, free market system, to wit, Albania. It is argued that the politico-economic system there is characterized by the existence of clans.
Arthur Schram, Klarita Gërxhani
core  

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