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The sacrificial spirit of the Olympic flame ceremony and ‘mutual learning of civilizations’: a case study of the Beijing 2008 and 2022 Olympic Games

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
The flame ceremony of the Classical Olympic Games was a foundational sacrificial rite, embodying Greek ideals of peace, individual sanctity, and the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty.
Feng Feng, Xiangyu Wang, Junling Li
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Spirituality as a Predictor of Psychological Well-Being: An Explanatory Mechanism of Religiosity and Sustainable Consumption

open access: yesReligions, 2020
This paper aims to investigate the impact of spirituality on the psychological well-being of the consumers involved in reusing as sustainable consumption behavior (SCB).
Sana Iqbal, Muhammad Ishfaq Khan
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The social architecture of capitalism [PDF]

open access: yesPhysica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2005
A dynamic model of the social relations between workers and capitalists is introduced. The model is deduced from the assumption that the law of value is an organising principle of modern economies. The model self-organises into a dynamic equilibrium with statistical properties that are in close qualitative and in many cases quantitative agreement with ...
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On Representative Social Capital [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2004
This paper analyzes data for a random sample drawn from the Dutch population who reveal their propensity to invest and reward investments in building up social capital by means of an economic experiment.We find substantial heterogeneity and asymmetries in the propensity to invest and in the propensity to reward investments.In particular, we find strong
Bellemare, C., Kroger, S.
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The PRIMA Thesaurus for Materials Science and Engineering

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
The PRIMA Thesaurus is a structured vocabulary designed to improve how materials science data is described and shared. Developed with input from multiple experts, it enables clear documentation of research workflows, data exchange, and reuse across platforms.
Rossella Aversa   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Capital of Social Capital Researchers

open access: yesReview of Economics and Institutions, 2011
This paper investigates the co-authorship network of star researchers from different disciplines who work on social capital. There has been a recent surge of interest in social capital. Articles on social capital that are published in the last five years constitute more than 60 percent of all articles on social capital.
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Extrusion‐Based Additive Manufacturing of Advanced Ceramics: Strengthening Mechanisms and Process Optimization Review

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively evaluates extrusion‐based additive manufacturing for advanced ceramics, detailing feedstock options and key process parameters. By critically addressing defect mechanisms like porosity and cracking, the work highlights optimization strategies through machine learning and advanced postprocessing.
Meisam Bakhtiari   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of Social Capital on the Cultural Capital (Case Study: Teachers of Hamadan Province & Its City) [PDF]

open access: yesتوسعه اجتماعی, 2016
Cultural capital is one of the capital in the analysis of Bourdieu (1977), has been proposed. Following the introduction of the concept of cultural capital in the field of Jamh Shnasy, the researcher-is a variety of different titles to examine the ...
mehrdad hossein panahi   +2 more
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Uniform Amorphization of Crystalline Silicon Surfaces Enabled by Deep Ultraviolet Femtosecond Laser Pulses

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Deep‐UV (258 nm) femtosecond pulses enable uniform amorphous silicon writing on Si(100)/(111) with a six‐fold larger fluence amorphization window than NIR methods. Optimized fluence and overlap yield 20–45 nm uniform and continuous amorphous layers. Microscopy shows sharp interfaces, and real‐time reflectivity reveals nanosecond melt–resolidification ...
Wissal Benali   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Could social capital help Czech agriculture?

open access: yesAgricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2002
Recent literature and research on social capital has demonstrated the economic importance of social features, such as trust and norms that facilitate cooperation. This article focuses on the role of social capital in the context of the Czech agricultural
J. Chloupková, Ch. BJØRNSKOV
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