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Twenty‐First Century Butlers and the New Spirit of Service

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT More than 50 years ago, Lewis Coser argued that the “servant” had become obsolete, claiming that such a “premodern” occupation could not function within modernity without religious legitimations. However, with parts of the contemporary service sector exhibiting the very characteristics that Coser viewed as “premodern”—especially within ...
Bryan Boyle
wiley   +1 more source

Theoretical Analysis, Neural Network-Based Inverse Design, and Experimental Verification of Multilayer Thin-Plate Acoustic Metamaterial Unit Cells. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Wang A, Cai C, You Y, Huang Y, Zhan X, Gao L, Zhang Z.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Book Value Risk Management of Banks: Limited Hedging, HTM Accounting, and Rising Interest Rates

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We document that as interest rates rose in 2022, banks largely left long‐duration assets exposed to interest rate risk while shielding the accounting value of their balance sheets. Call report and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) data show that only about 6% of U.S.
João Granja, Erica Xuewei Jiang, Gregor Matvos, Tomasz Piskorski, Amit Seru   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extraordinary heat insulation in RbAg₄I₅. [PDF]

Natl Sci Rev
Liu Z, Bai Q, Chen Z, Wu L, Kang T, Li C, Yang L, Luo J, Pei Y.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Liquid Assemblies: An Institutional Design for Liquid Democracy

Constellations, EarlyView.
Chiara Valsangiacomo Balmelli, Christina Isabel Zuber   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contrasting Responses of Rodents With Different Habitat Associations to Rapid Urbanization in a Chinese Megacity

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Rapid urbanization reshaped rodent populations, morphology, and gut microbiota along an urban–rural gradient. The synanthropic rat (Rattus norvegicus) increased in abundance toward the urban core and exhibited reduced ear and tail length, whereas the farmland mouse (Apodemus agrarius) and woodland rat (Niviventer confucianus) declined.
Chao Zhang, Yingqun Feng, Shaoya Wang, Tiantian Xia, Jing Chen, Zekai Ren, Dan Yang, Hongyu Niu, Hongmao Zhang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sandwich Mycelium-Based Composite Panels Fabricated with a Lightweight Core from Forest Waste Using <i>Ganoderma lucidum</i> and <i>Pleurotus ostreatus</i>. [PDF]

J Fungi (Basel)
Mayorga-Jiménez M, Moya R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
wiley   +1 more source

Study on sound insulation performance of walls in traditional timber dwellings of the Miao ethnic group in Qiandongnan. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Huang X, Zhao W, Huang Z, Wang Y, Du Y, Du L, Chen Y.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

110 Preparation and Properties of Filler Composites for Sound Insulation Materials

The Proceedings of Conference of Hokuriku-Shinetsu Branch, 2009
openaire   +2 more sources