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Unnatural Causes: Cryptocurrencies, Carbon Credits, and the rise of Neoliberalism from Below
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Klima is a carbon‐backed cryptocurrency running as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). In 2021, it had accumulated 9 million metric tons of digital carbon credits and reached a market value of more than US$1 billion. In 2023, its treasury stored twice as many carbon credits, but its spot price was a tiny fraction compared to 2021 ...
Riccardo De Cristano, Alexander Paulsson
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Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev +2 more
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Sudden sensorineural hearing loss: An autoimmune disease?
, 2011 Objectives: To review our current knowledge of the pathogenesis of sudden sensorineural hearing loss, including viral infection, vascular occlusion and immune system-mediated mechanisms, and to discuss the pathogenesis as it relates to pharmacotherapy ...
A. Greco +10 more
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Five Decades of Dispute: A Triptych. E. J. Corey
The Chemical Record, EarlyView.In his 2004 Priestley Medal address, E. J. Corey stated, “On May 4, 1964, I suggested to my colleague R. B. Woodward a simple explanation involving the symmetry of the perturbed (HOMO) molecular orbitals for the stereoselective cyclobutene/1,3‐butadiene and 1,3,5‐hexatriene/cyclohexadiene conversions that provided the basis for the further development ...
Jeffrey I. Seeman
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Sudden sensorineural hearing loss and COVID-19 [PDF]
Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) is an auditory condition that happens rapidly and may result in a permanent hearing impairment. Increasing evidence suggests a potential link between SSNHL and viral infections, including COVID-19.
Alwi, Husna Sofia +9 more
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Proctoring in a Second Language: Exploring Fairness and Justice in Remote English Language Testing
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Remote proctoring is increasingly common in English language testing (Isbell & Kremmel, 2020), yet it often requires communication in the target language, unlike in‐person centers that may offer support in test‐takers' first language. Although prior studies have noted communication challenges in remote testing environments (Green & Lung, 2021;
Jieun Kim
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‘You're not a good vet if things go wrong’: The dark side of veterinary identities
Veterinary Record, EarlyView.Abstract Background Vets, like other professionals, strive for somewhat fantasised desired occupational identities, but the dichotomic dark side of feared identities—that is, negative constructions of oneself as flawed, failed or failing—remains underexplored. This paper reviews the identity processes associated with feared identities.
Sarah Page‐Jones
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Rarely encountered causes of sudden hearing loss: a series of fourteen cases
, 2012 Sudden hearing loss is defined classically as sensorineural hearing loss developing within less than three days which emerges with hearing loss at all three successive frequencies at more than 30 dB.
Pınar Donbaycı +3 more
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