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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The following article seeks to explore and analyze the use of lay and traditional medicines among Latin migrants in Spain, and the way in which these forms of treatment are accompanied by identity discourses and collective representations.
Muriel Lamarque
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Avoiding Publication and Privatization Problems on Software Transactional Memory [PDF]
, 2011 This paper presents a new approach to exclude problems arising from dynamically switching between protected concurrent and unprotected single-threaded use of shared data when using software transactional memory in OO languages such as Java.
Turau, Volker, Machens, Holger
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Metroeconomica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We propose a demand‐led heterogeneous firm macroeconomic model to study the impact of an exchange rate devaluation on output and financial stability. We simulate the model and find that, in the presence of foreign debt, a devaluation can have contractionary effects.
Lucca Gustafson Rodrigues +2 more
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Medical Education, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction Early participation in research is a widely used strategy to encourage medical students to pursue physician–scientist careers. Yet its influence on professional identity formation (PIF) remains poorly understood. We explored how participation in an extracurricular research programme during preclinical education influenced students'
Maria Eduarda da Silva +3 more
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“I Paid A Bribe”—Lessons and Insights From Crowdsourced Corruption Reporting in India
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Preventing and reducing corruption has proven to be an enormous challenge. An important step in this process is to produce and use good metrics to identify where anti‐corruption resources would be most beneficial. Most measures of corruption, however, rely on surveys of perceptions or bribery incidence.
Ina Kubbe +2 more
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“The Excuses We Make”: Defining Eight Corruption Rationalization Categories
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The rationalization of corruption allows individuals to detach from moral imperatives, enabling them to perceive unethical or unlawful actions as acceptable or justifiable. Closely linked to the concept of moral disengagement, rationalization involves cognitive distortions that frame inhumane or immoral behavior as neither wrong nor ...
Caio César Coelho Rodrigues
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The Many Shades of Clouds: How Law Fails (Us) in Seeing Power in the Digital Economy
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cloud infrastructures form the backbone of our contemporary (digital) production environment. Despite their centrality, legal and scholarly practice have not been treating cloud infrastructures as single objects of/for study. In other words, we have laws for regulating services and products that flow from (within) cloud infrastructures, but we
Petros Terzis +2 more
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, 2010 Current and future processor generations are based on multicore architectures where the performance increase comes from an increasing number of cores on a chip.
Håkan Grahn +2 more
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Knowledge Spillover, Trust, Effort, and Error Exposure in Peer‐Assisted Learning
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Peer‐assisted learning has the potential to improve learning in academic settings and beyond. However, the cognitive and motivational mechanisms of learning through interaction with other learners are not fully understood. Here, we present an empirical study in which we compare a peer‐assisted learning condition with two individual learning ...
Ion Juvina +5 more
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Extensible Transactional Memory Testbed [PDF]
Transactional Memory (TM) is a promising abstraction as it hides all synchronization complexities from the programmers of concurrent applications. More particularly the TM paradigm operated a complexity shift from the application programming to the TM ...
Felber, Pascal +3 more
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