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The Risk Model of Traffic Engineering Investment and Financing by Artificial Intelligence. [PDF]

Comput Intell Neurosci, 2022
Wang S, Zhang W.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Mutable Original: How Chinese Counterfeits Become Nigerian Originals in African Markets

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Affordable Chinese copies of Western brands are ubiquitous in African markets. Despite democratizing consumer access, these goods appear to cement hegemonic value hierarchies that rank Chinese or local products as inferior to Western goods.
Jing Jing Liu
wiley   +1 more source

Of cables and threads

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the past two decades, gondola lifts have become central to interventions in urban Latin America's auto‐constructed peripheries. As cable car urbanism reshapes the city's edge, it raises fundamental questions about the notion of the “urban fabric” as a sociomaterial practice, an epistemology, and a site of politics.
Federico Pérez Fernández
wiley   +1 more source

Hosting and Human Rights: The Summer Olympics in the Twenty-First Century. [PDF]

Front Sports Act Living, 2022
Ross M, McDougall M.
europepmc   +1 more source

From Control to Elimination: Making the End of Dental Caries Thinkable

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Dental caries remains one of the most prevalent noncommunicable diseases worldwide despite decades of clinical and behavioural interventions. Persistently high prevalence suggests that current approaches are better organised for ongoing disease management than for preventing new disease occurrence.
Habib Benzian, Manu Raj Mathur, Eugenio Beltrán‐Aguilar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Between Care and Control: Age Assessments and the Regulation of Unaccompanied and Asylum‐Seeking Children

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a critical conceptual review of age assessments in England and examines their implications for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC). Drawing on Foucault's theories of biopower and governmentality, age assessments are conceptualied as technologies of control that set the parameters for who is deemed ‘deserving’ of ...
Ama‐Rose Greaves
wiley   +1 more source

How financial mechanisms can incentivize provision of ecosystem services from land restoration: A systematic review protocol. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Grigoriadis V, Gold E, Hutchinson G, Frewer LJ, Brereton P, Flannery D, Byrne KA, Garvey J.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
wiley   +1 more source

Criminality, chaos and corruption: Analyzing the narratives of labor migration dynamics in Malaysia. [PDF]

Asian Pac Migr J, 2023
Foley L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Intangible Value Creation Through Teamwork

Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a sample of US firms from 1993 to 2023, comprising 38,502 firm‐year observations, we find that collaboration culture positively correlates with intangible value creation. We identify corporate innovation and human capital as the mechanisms via which collaboration correlates with intangible value creation.
Sagarika Mishra, Dinh Hoang Bach Phan, Vuong Thao Tran   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source