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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
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Views from the Inside: Reflections on the Modern Hospital
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract There's a constant refrain in the press, on social media and from populist politicians that the NHS is dying on its feet. How accurate is this picture? This article takes a behind‐the‐scenes look at daily life in a modern, big city hospital. The Queen Elizabeth is now the biggest workplace in Birmingham.
Jon Bloomfield
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Improving Biometric-Based Authentication Schemes with Smart Card Revocation/Reissue for Wireless Sensor Networks. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2017 Moon J, Lee D, Lee Y, Won D.
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A Robust Remote User Authentication Scheme Using Smart Card
, 2012 [[abstract]]"In 2008, Yoon et al. [25] presented three kinds of security attacks (YLY attacks for short) of a user authentication and key agreement scheme using smart cards in different scenarios.
李正吉;Lee, Cheng-Chi
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) manages Pakistan's biometric‐based national identity database, one of the largest identification systems of its kind in the world. This article examines bureaucratic practices used during identity registration to record ‘vital events’ in the lives of citizens: birth, marriage, divorce, and death.
Zehra Hashmi
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Food and alcohol indulgence, along with tea‐drinking, gambling, and gossip, are integral to a characteristically Sichuanese ethos of ‘life enjoyment’ (xiangshou shenghuo). Beyond mere pleasure, sensory, ludic, and comic experiences temporarily strip participants of both their formal and subjective qualities.
Angel Nayden
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The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural barometers of success, the country was entering a newly ‘postfeminist’ era.
Sarah Crook
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines Feminists for Life's (FFL) rhetoric and activism on US college campuses in the 1990s as a case study into the complexities of organizing against abortion in a historical context whereby few supports existed for young pregnant women.
Isobel Bloom
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932
History, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain
History, EarlyView.Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
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