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Syntheticising Scandinavia: The Introduction of Synthetic Pesticides to Scandinavian Gardens, 1945-1952

open access: yesHoST, 2020
This study examines the introduction of prescriptive pesticide technologies into Scandinavian family gardens. It analyses pesticide propaganda and plant protection experts’ advice and instructions on the use of pesticides directed at amateur, home ...
Nielsen May-Brith Ohman
doaj   +1 more source

Sci-fEAST: Science fiction genre in Polish and Czechoslovakian cinema [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article is based on research done as part of Sci-fEAST: the Science Fiction Genre in Central and Eastern Europe project initiated by the students of Charles University in Prague and continued also by the academic staff of the University of Łódź ...
Góralik, Mikołaj
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Relativism in the Context of National Socialism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The aim of this chapter is to clarify the use and meaning of the concept of relativism in the context of National Socialism (NS). Section 1 examines the critical reproach that NS is a form of relativism.
Steizinger, Johannes
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A Comprehensive Estimation of the Economic Effects of Meteorological Services Based on the Input-Output Method

open access: yesThe Scientific World Journal, 2014
Concentrating on consuming coefficient, partition coefficient, and Leontief inverse matrix, relevant concepts and algorithms are developed for estimating the impact of meteorological services including the associated (indirect, complete) economic effect.
Xianhua Wu   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Review of Jeremiah Morelock (Ed.), Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism (2018). London: University of Westminster Press.

open access: yestripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2019
Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism (2018; University of Westminster Press), edited by Jeremiah Morelock, brings together the work of sociologists, political scientists, historians, and philosophers attempting to revitalise the empirical and ...
Daniel Sullivan
doaj   +1 more source

Jihad online : how do terrorists use the internet? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Terrorism is designed to attract attention to the terrorist's cause and to spread fear and anxiety among wide circles of the targeted population. This paper provides information about the ways terrorists are using the Internet. The threat of terrorism is
Cohen-Almagor, Raphael
core   +2 more sources

Italian fascism and the political mobilisation of working-class women 1937-43 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The Sezione Operaie e Lavoranti a Domicilio dei Fasci Femminili (Section of the Fascist Women's Groups for Female Workers and Outworkers) is the only one of the three Italian Fascist Party organisations for adult women that has never been studied ...
Willson, Perry
core   +1 more source

Policy Capacity Matters Differently Over Time: The Emergence and Persistence of Participatory Budgeting in China

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The persistence of participatory budgeting (PB) in selected Chinese localities challenges the conventional wisdom that deliberative democratic practices can only take root in liberal political environments. Yet, existing literature has not sufficiently elucidated the factors underpinning the rise and sustained operation of PB in this seemingly
Yifei Yan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trapped in mirror-images: The rhetoric of maps in Israel/Palestine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The map of Israel/Palestine has long been used by both Israelis and Palestinians, from their unequal power positions, as a celebrated national symbol. It is virtually the same map, depicting a sliver-shaped land between River Jordan and the Mediterranean,
Wallach, Yair
core   +1 more source

Tangled Up in Green: A Review of Policy Analyses of the European Green Deal

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The European Green Deal (EGD) was introduced as a transformative policy agenda for sustainability aiming to make Europe the first climate‐neutral continent in the world. While previous research has studied its transformative potential, there is no comprehensive review of that research.
Cecilia Enberg, Christian Ståhl
wiley   +1 more source

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