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 +2 more
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Intersections of Class and Colonisation: Access to Dental Care for Indigenous Peoples in Canada
ABSTRACT Objectives Inequitable access to healthcare is a central driver of the disproportionate burden of disease in Indigenous peoples. The aim of this study is to investigate inequities in access to dental care, accounting for supra‐additive effects at the intersections of educational attainment, household income, and Indigeneity.
Nasir Z. Bashir, Gustavo G. Nascimento
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The stereotypical effect of gendered nicknames on prosocial behavior in online interactions: a chain mediation model. [PDF]
You C, Shen H, Liu J, Chen Y.
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Register‐Efficient Linear‐Time Evaluation in the Bernstein Basis
Abstract We investigate the evaluation of points and derivatives of Bézier curves and surfaces on modern architectures, focusing on performance and guided by numerical error bounds. While the de Casteljau algorithm remains the reference for numerical robustness, its linear working‐set size imposes substantial register pressure on GPUs.
Gábor Valasek, Anna Lili Horváth
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Warm realism in Chinese microdramas: A term frequency analysis of audience comments on The Puppy Laifu. [PDF]
Tian Y, Cheng P.
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ABSTRACT This comparative study explores young people's experiences of communication and decision‐making during parental divorce in two distinct cultural contexts: Türkiye and England. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 44 young people aged 11–16, the research addresses a gap in the Turkish literature by foregrounding children's perspectives, which
Gözde Doğanyılmaz‐Burger +1 more
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VLMs struggle to extract definitions of structural segments from MSA images: toward the design of a human-in-the-loop annotation pipeline for the PDB-Descriptome project. [PDF]
Sakuma K.
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Irish regional GDP since independence
Abstract This paper constructs the first long‐run estimates of Irish regional gross domestic product (GDP) over the twentieth century and traces the relative economic performance of Ireland's regions since independence. Using an array of data sources available at a county level, output in agriculture, industry, and services in benchmark census years is
Alan de Bromhead, Seán Kenny
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The interactive effect of affectionate nicknames and streamer type on streamer attitude in E-commerce live streaming: the mediating role of psychological closeness. [PDF]
Liu Y, Liu M.
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Black Fugitivity in the Sporting Workplace: The Story of Eniola Aluko
ABSTRACT Being a Black fugitive involves constant movement: to find and cultivate spaces of safety and hope. In this paper, I curate a sporting archive about the UK Black women's elite football player Eniola Aluko to read her as a Black fugitive. I demonstrate how she traversed a racist and anti‐Black sporting workplace—where she was unfairly demonized
Aarti Ratna
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