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School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The 1870 Elementary Education Act enabled the creation of school boards in England and Wales. Members were directly elected by the cumulative vote. This method gave each individual voter as many votes as there were seats on a school board, in some cases up to fifteen.
ED GREEN
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Subjective Social Inequalities, Lay Perceptions of Merit and Puzzles of Explanation

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite rising socioeconomic inequalities most people see individualised merit as crucial for social success. Drawing on surveys such as the ISSP a wealth of research examines trends in subjective perceptions, the relative importance accorded to merit and non‐merit factors for getting ahead in life and factors which influence lay perceptions ...
Sarah Irwin
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Play Hard, Work (Too) Hard: The Impact of Gamification on Work Addiction, Burnout, and Turnover Intention

Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gamification is being increasingly implemented within human resource management by organizations to incentivize employees to remain engaged with their work. However, despite nascent empirical evidence on the potential drawbacks of gamification for employees, our understanding of these consequences remains limited. Our study aims to explore the
Francis Maisonneuve, Antoine Bujold, Xavier Parent‐Rocheleau   +2 more
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A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
wiley   +1 more source

The Construction of an Environmental Villain: A Discourse Analysis of Upland Maize Farming in Thailand

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the mid‐2010s, Thai public discourse has villainised upland maize cultivation in northern Thailand for deforestation and environmental degradation through the popular imagery of bald mountains. The attention has prompted a new wave of land‐use interventions urging upland smallholders to replace maize with trees and perennials.
Pin Pravalprukskul, Cecilie Friis, Thilde Bech Bruun   +2 more
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Trace Element Patterns in Juvenile Wild Chimpanzee Dentitions

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Trace elements are used to infer mammalian early‐life diets, environmental toxins, dispersal patterns, stress histories, and weaning ages. Here, we employ laser ablation‐inductively coupled plasma‐mass spectrometry (LA‐ICP‐MS) to reveal elemental patterns in our closest living relatives, chimpanzees.
Tanya M. Smith, Manish Arora, Maya Bharatiya, Nicole Leonard, Jian‐xin Zhao, Christine Austin   +5 more
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Cumulative Risk and Mental Health of Chinese Rural Adolescents: The Mediation Role of Loneliness and the Moderation Role of Family Functioning

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rural Chinese adolescents face significant mental health challenges shaped by cumulative risks across ecological systems, particularly individual, family and peer domains. However, the underlying mechanism linking cumulative risk to mental health problems remains insufficiently explored.
Chen Deng, Lu Yu, Guowei Wan, Yaoxiang Ren   +3 more
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Story2Board: A Training‐Free Approach for Expressive Visual Storytelling

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract We present Story2Board, a training‐free framework for expressive storyboard generation from natural language. Existing methods narrowly focus on subject identity, overlooking key aspects of visual storytelling such as spatial composition, background evolution, and narrative pacing.
D. Dinkevich, M. Levy, O. Avrahami, D. Samuel, D. Lischinski   +4 more
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More Inspired, Less Anxious: Well‐Being Impacts of a Self‐Directed Art Museum Visit

Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increasingly, art museums are seen as places that can support human flourishing. We describe a quasi‐experimental investigation of the impacts of a self‐directed art museum visit on adults' subjective well‐being. Data were collected from 363 adults at three art museums in Seattle, WA.
Jessica J. Luke, Kami Lee Chesnut, Ash Gingery, Yanyue Guan, Shizheng Miao, Emily Shields, Lucas Terry, Marcela Velandia‐Pirazan, Allison Bramblett, Jamie Fontana, Makayla Fry, McKenna Johnson, Erika Krause, Lauren Krieger, Wilson Lam, Mariel Lees, Marley Salgado Smith, Polly Yorioka, Michael Zamudio   +18 more
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Nonhuman Pedagogical Relations: Towards Conceptual Limits

Educational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article considers the pedagogical relation as a relation to a nonhuman educator, wherein the educatee is a member of the Homo sapiens species. My aim is to clarify the extent to which a nonhuman‐human relation can be understood as pedagogical.
Silas C. Krabbe
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