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Reflection of national mythology in Chuvash poetry

open access: yesЭтническая культура
The interaction of myth and literature is an urgent literary problem. Mythological themes, plots, motifs, and images are used and reinterpreted in Chuvash literature throughout its history.
Vera V. Nikiforova
doaj   +1 more source

Breeding for multi‐stress resilience in crops: Myth or possibility?

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Climate change threatens millions of farmers worldwide by exposing crops to multiple concurrent or sequential environmental stresses such as drought, heat, waterlogging, and diseases. Although crops have long been selected under naturally occurring multi‐stress conditions, breeding pipelines largely focus on optimal or single‐stress environments ...
Hamid Khazaei   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A real-time data set for macroeconomists [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper presents the concept and uses of a real-time data set that can be used by economists for testing the robustness of published econometric results, for analyzing policy, and for forecasting.
Dean Croushore, Tom Stark
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Proposing a Framework to Center Justice in Ambitious Science Teaching

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Though educators and researchers have developed shared theory and language for priorities necessary to disrupt the status quo toward more equitable science education, we lack a tool that organizes sets of teaching practices across an instructional unit to support enactment and rehearsal.
April Luehmann   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

How the Myth Was Made: Time, Myth, and Narrative in the Work of William Faulkner

open access: yes, 2014
It is all too easy to dismiss myth as belonging to the realm of the abstract and theoretical, too removed from reality to constitute anything pragmatic. And yet myth makes up the very fabric of society, informing the way history is understood and the way
MacDonnell, Katherine A
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“Taking Off the Rose‐Colored Glasses”: How Justice‐Centered Science Curricula Engages Prehealth Undergraduates' in Critical Consciousness

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Health disparities rooted in systemic oppression and perpetuated by implicit bias among medical professionals remain pervasive across North America. These inequities are often sustained by providers' limited awareness of social realities that shape the lives of people from marginalized communities.
Sabah K. Elias   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Myth of the Sharing Economy and Its Implications for Regulating Innovation

open access: yes, 2017
A deflated air mattress rests in the corner of Airbnb’s world headquarters. It symbolizes how Airbnb allows regular, local people to earn extra income by renting out space in their homes. Yet, this symbolism fails to represent what the company has become—
Stemler, Abbey
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Fair and Equitable Land Access (FELA) by Development Projects: Enhancing Governance for Sustainable Development Outcomes When Projects Displace People

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Displacing people to make way for development projects is contentious. Empirical research demonstrates that neither human rights guidelines nor multilateral lenders' standards guarantee positive, sustainable outcomes for displaced people. With multiple new displacing projects proposed globally, including for renewable energy, we propose a new ...
Eddie Smyth   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Carbon Performance in Airlines: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Institutional and Firm‐Level Drivers

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Air transport is one of the fastest‐growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions, yet it remains one of the most difficult sectors to decarbonize. The sector's climate impact is amplified by two factors: the steady rise in passenger demand and the absence of commercially viable low‐carbon technologies for long‐haul flights.
Jouni K. Juntunen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Russian Myth and Russian Slavic Patriotism Myth in the Czech Environment of the 19th Century

open access: yes, 2006
Position and function of Russian myth and russian slavonic myth (Rusofilia) in the time of the formation of the Czech modern national knowledge (19th century)
Vlček, Radomír
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