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“It's Time for Action and Not Excuses”: Advisors and Leaders in Phuoc Tuy, 1968–1973
This article explores the challenges faced by American and Australian advisors working in Phuoc Tuy province, South Vietnam, from 1968 to 1973, with a focus on the persistent belief that ineffective Vietnamese leadership was the principal obstacle to a successful pacification process. It examines how advisors identified underperformance among officials
Tom Richardson
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Peers, equals, and jurors: New data and methods on legal equality in Leveller thought
Abstract We consider the Levellers' conception of equality relative to their contemporaries during the Civil War(s) period. We compile a corpus of hundreds of seventeenth−century pamphlets and combine this with novel word embedding techniques trained on millions of Early Modern English documents to make statements about word “meanings.” We focus on ...
Melissa Schwartzberg, Arthur Spirling
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Brook no compromise: How to negotiate a united front
Abstract Negotiating factional conflict is crucial to successful coordination: Political parties, rebel alliances, and authoritarian elites must all overcome internal disagreements to survive and achieve collective aims. Actors in these situations sometimes employ hardball tactics to block outcomes they dislike, but at the risk of causing coordination ...
Elaine Yao
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Principle Based Semantics for HPSG
The paper presents a constraint based semantic formalism for HPSG. The advantages of the formlism are shown with respect to a grammar for a fragment of German that deals with (i) quantifier scope ambiguities triggered by scrambling and/or movement and ...
Frank, A., Reyle, U.
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Social Media, Democracy, and the Popular Public Sphere
Constellations, EarlyView.
Antoine Sander
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Power, Narrative, and Fossil Fuels: Meaning‐Making and the Co‐Optation of Workers’ Struggle
Abstract Discursive power operates through narrative to shape subjective perceptions of meaningful work within capitalist societies, where work as employment is required for survival. This article theorises the relationship between labour alienation and the adoption of narratives that create meaning while rationalising and defending the class structure.
Megan Egler, Cheryl Morse
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Revisiting Grammatical Complexity in L2 Writing via Exploratory Factor Analysis. [PDF]
Lan G, Li X, Zhang Q.
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Artificial intelligence (AI)‐driven simplification of medical reports holds promise for improving patient education. However, careful attention must be paid to ensuring accuracy and completeness. Use of AI technologies in healthcare will continue to expand but will require rigorous oversight and ongoing research to fully realize their potential in ...
Maximilian Riedel+6 more
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Principles of event framing : genetic stability in grammar and discourse [PDF]
Ever since Wilhelm von Humboldt’s (1836) pioneering study of Nahuatl, linguists have recurrently recognized that languages differ fundamentally in the syntactic weight they attribute to noun-phrases as the arguments of a verb.
Bickel, Balthasar
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Counter‐hegemonic ethics for sustainable business
Abstract Business ethics scholarship proposes alternatives for making companies sustainable. While these models may have advanced business practice, the alternatives rarely challenge the hegemony of the economic system. This article develops a new normative frame for sustainable business by investigating articulations of counter‐hegemony and their ...
Joshua Hurtado Hurtado+4 more
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