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Concrete in architecture: Redefining form, space, function, and insights from bibliometric analysis

open access: yesStructural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract Concrete has become a cornerstone in architectural and engineering innovation, as it seamlessly integrates structural performance with artistic expression. Its evolution from ancient opus caementicium to contemporary ultra‐high‐performance concrete illustrates its adaptability to the change in technological, environmental, and design paradigms.
Mouhcine Benaicha   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Motivation in secondary religious education [PDF]

open access: yes
I show how my previous MA research indicated useful data regarding motivation in secondary school Religious Education (RE) but needed augmented theoretical and empirical substance to inform a general pedagogy (chapter 1): to this end I address issues of ...
O'Grady, Kevin
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Masculinities, music, emotion and affect [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Background: Gendered inequalities have historically been legitimated through the discursive enforcement of ‘natural’ sexual difference. One particular fallacy that has denied females a political voice, is that white, Western, males are more ‘naturally ...
de Boise, Sam
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Types of Struggles in Disrupted Interaction: A Case of Hard‐of‐Hearing Employees

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Everyone experiences disrupted interactions in their everyday life. However, research indicates that people with functional impairments are particularly exposed to patterns of interactional inequality at work. Despite this, little is known about the specific disrupted interactions in everyday life and the various types of interactional struggles this ...
Ida Friis Thing
wiley   +1 more source

Music in young Maltese women's lives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This study explores how young Maltese women give meaning to the music they listen to and how this music is incorporated in everyday discourses and ...
Chircop, Tatjana
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Augustine on music as the harmonious language of spirituality: An apophatic theological study

open access: yesIn die Skriflig
This article arose from the study of apophatic theology also known as the via-negativa. Apophatic theology, by definition, refrains from stating what and who God is instead of focusing on what God is not.
Godfrey T. Baleng
doaj   +1 more source

Accomplishing Ethics‐Work as a Generic Social Process

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Existing systems of university research ethics are often criticized by those in the qualitative research tradition. A common thread is that ethics cannot be fully anticipated before the research begins, as is expected by most institutional review boards.
Deana Simonetto, Antony Puddephatt
wiley   +1 more source

An Outline of a Theory of Play

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
wiley   +1 more source

'What Constitutes Artist Success in the Australian Music Industries?' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Contemporary artists embarking on a musical career enter into a highly competitive and complex environment. Whereas the pre-digital music industries consisted of de-finable streams of income and markers of achievement, such as live performance ...
Hughes, Keith, Crowdy, Morrow, Evans, M
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Queers Queering STEM: Reimagining Inclusive STEM Education

open access: yesJournal of Research in Science Teaching, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Grounded in queer theory, this study explores the intersections of queerness and STEM trajectories through the lived experiences of three queer adults with postgraduate degrees in STEM and contributes their insights for queering STEM education.
Nelly K. M. Marosi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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