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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
wiley   +1 more source

Uncovering Biogas Outcomes: Tales of Hubris, Hope, and Failure From Southern Malawi

Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to speak directly to biogas failure. Over the past two decades, immense amounts of money have been spent by African governments, private individuals, and most conspicuously, international aid agencies and donors, on countless biogas projects in every country on the continent.
Marc Kalina, Jonathan Kwangulero, Jonathan Òlal Ogwang, Natalie Boyd Williams, Elizabeth Tilley   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sailing Through Time: Building Pacific Maritime Resilience

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the Pacific Blue Shipping Partnership (PBSP), an ambitious initiative aimed at decarbonising maritime transport across Oceania. The study explores the cultural, historical and technological aspects of wind‐propelled shipping in the Pacific.
Christiaan De Beukelaer, John Taukäve, Maria Sahib, Eldine Glees, Aseri Driu, Joshua Lakabung, Atina Schutz, Joseph H. Genz, Shania G. Tamagyongfal, Jerolynn K. Myazoe, Alexander Mawyer, Alson Kelen, Larry Raigetal, Raffael Held, Andrew Irvin, Morgan Wairiu, Peter Nuttall, Transform Aqorau, Kyrie Lalauvaki, Aileen Sefeti, John Kautoke   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Guardians Under Siege: Civil Society Access and Reform of the UN Human Rights Council

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how restrictions on civil society participation at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) undermine the institution's effectiveness. Through stakeholder interviews and analysis of recent developments, we show that civil society engagement does not merely fulfil a democratic aspiration, but it is an operational ...
Inés M. Pousadela, Samuel King
wiley   +1 more source

Personality at the Centre: How Network Brokerage and Traits Shape Voice Behaviour in Online Communities

Creativity and Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Changing the status quo and promoting innovation requires individuals to speak up and engage in voice behaviour. Yet, the interactions that foster or inhibit voice remain insufficiently understood, particularly with regard to personal agency, how an individual's personality interacts with their network position to influence voice.
Léonie Sophia Lange, Tamara Engel, Alexander Kock   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

See4D: Pose‐Free 4D Generation via Auto‐Regressive Video Inpainting

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Immersive applications call for synthesizing spatiotemporal 4D content from casual videos without costly 3D supervision. Existing video‐to‐4D methods typically rely on manually annotated camera poses, which are labor‐intensive and brittle for in‐the‐wild footage.
Dongyue Lu, Ao Liang, Tianxin Huang, Xiao Fu, Yuyang Zhao, Baorui Ma, Liang Pan, Wei Yin, Lingdong Kong, Wei Tsang Ooi, Ziwei Liu   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Psychological safety and teacher voice behavior: Power distance orientation in Chinese schools

Acta Psychologica
The present paper explores the question of the association between psychological safety and teacher voice behavior in Chinese K-12 schools and elucidates the contexts and mechanisms of such an association that become variable in the framework of ...
Xiufang Zhou, Yueming Li, Yichong Feng
doaj   +1 more source

FaceMamba: Geometry‐Aware Mamba for Efficient Speech‐Driven 3D Facial Animation

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Speech‐driven 3D facial animation plays a pivotal role in immersive digital human applications. Recent works have explored Mamba‐based sequence modeling as an efficient alternative to Transformer, but they often suffer from limited cross‐modal alignment and insufficient control over fine‐grained facial deformations.
Yifan Ge, Zhiqiang Ren, Yazhan Zhang, Haofei Wang, Yawen Zhang, Shengli Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Importance of using genetic data to inform conservation captive breeding: A tale of two species of threatened macaws (Ara spp.)

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Unmanaged captive populations of threatened species often harbor hidden genetic risks, so using genomic tools, we audited a large private macaw collection and uncovered extensive hybridization and high inbreeding. Our findings provide an actionable framework for how routine genetic screening can be used to mitigate these risks, manage captive breeding ...
George Olah, Jeff A. Johnson, Jeremy S. Johnson, Donald J. Brightsmith, Janice D. Boyd   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Employees Voice and High-Performance Work System: Insights from Ondo State Ministry of Education

Kelaniya Journal of Management
This study investigated employees’ voice from the purview of high-performance working system in the Ministry of Education Ondo State, Nigeria with the objective of examining the effect of promotive employee voice on employees’ participation in Ondo State
M. O. Femi-Akarakiri, L. O. Olanipekun, B. O. Akanji   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source