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Disruptive Repentance: Protesting in the Morning Service at Waitangi in 1983
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.In 1983 on Waitangi Day, nine Pākehā Christian protesters (including Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Baptist ministers) were arrested and charged with disorderly behaviour for interrupting the morning church service at Waitangi. In solidarity with Māori activists and wider protests, they sought to draw attention to the longstanding failure of the ...
Michael Mawson
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THE SAGA OF SOUTH AFRICAN POWS IN ANGOLA, 1975–82
Scientia Militaria, 2012 This article narrates the story of nine soldiers captured during and shortly after Operation Savannah, the codename for the South African Defence Force invasion of Angola in 1975–6.
Gary Baines
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BEHIND THE FACES OF AESTHETICIZED URBANISM IN TUNXI, CHINA
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban policy in China has become increasingly predicated on securing an approved aesthetic that reflects ideological campaigns and political programmes. In highlighting the role of the aesthetic in Chinese urbanism, this article argues that the party‐state draws on an aesthetic palette that places the contemporary urban landscape in a ...
Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley, Asa Roast
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Storytelling in prison: oral performance of a Gurkha prisoner of World War I
European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 2020 Among the non-European military forces that fought on the European continent during World War I, the Gurkhas from Nepal emerged from the conflict having achieved wide renown for their bravery.
Alaka A Chudal
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English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Captivity: The case of Iranian prisoners of war in the Iraq-Iran war [PDF]
, 2019 During the Persian Gulf War of Iraq-Iran (1980-1988), thousands of Iranians were taken captive by Iraqi troops. These prisoners of war (POWs) had to find ways to enrich and fill their time in prison camps. Learning English was one such activity.
Emam, Abbas
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of environmental attention on cryptocurrency market volatility by introducing the Crypto Environmental Attention Index (CEAI), a new metric inspired by Wang et al. (2022) and constructed using daily web search data.
Ines Ghazouani +2 more
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International Review of the Red CrossImages can help us to better understand how the laws of war and international humanitarian law have developed. As images transmit several messages simultaneously, they can reveal contextual, ideological, political and emotional dimensions that legal ...
Tania Ixchel Atilano
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Clinical Oral Implants Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives To introduce a universal scan calibrator (SC) and to evaluate its accuracy in the calibrated intraoral scan protocol (CISP) by comparison with two previously published SCs. Materials and Methods Three SCs were evaluated on an edentulous implant model containing six scan bodies (SBs) positioned at the screw‐retained abutment (SRA ...
Shengtao Yang +7 more
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Miners' Reward Elasticity and Stability of Competing Proof‐of‐Work Cryptocurrencies
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Proof‐of‐Work cryptocurrencies employ miners to sustain the system through algorithmic reward adjustments. We develop a stochastic model of the multicurrency mining and identify conditions for stable transaction speeds. Bitcoin's algorithm requires hash supply elasticity <$<$1 for stability, while ASERT remains stable for any elasticity and ...
Kohei Kawaguchi +2 more
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