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Why Active Representation Varies: Cultural Stereotypes and Differential Treatment by Street‐Level Bureaucrats

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do cultural stereotypes influence the likelihood that minority street‐level bureaucrats (SLBs) will actively represent marginalized subgroups within their ethnocultural community? While existing scholarship on representative bureaucracy has focused on the conditions under which minority SLBs engage in active representation, this study ...
Sohad Amaria, Einat Lavee, Nissim Cohen
wiley   +1 more source

Acoustic Analysis and Transcription of Linguistic and Paralinguistic Features in Dialogue Speech

open access: yesAcoustic Analysis and Transcription of Linguistic and Paralinguistic Features in Dialogue Speech
Nonverbal features of spontaneous speech are important in human dialogue. And transcription of dialogue including the paralanguage is a useful technique for analysis of the dialogues. But, the paralinguistic features are transcribed by transcriber's subjective now. Some features are measurable as concrete acoustical features. We made measurement of the
openaire  

A linguistic approach to music: the interpretation of songs´ transcriptions on the saxophone

open access: yes, 2013
It is a common practice among saxophonists to transcribe songs. The lyrics, an essential element of a song, are not included in songs transcriptions for saxophone and consequently a substantial layer of the composition is lost. This dissertation addresses the problem of song transcriptions by saxophonists and provides strategies for improving music ...
openaire   +1 more source

Tree planting, natural colonisation, hybrid approaches: Land manager decisions explored

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract There is a global drive to protect biodiversity and help combat climate change. In the UK, this is expressed in a number of policy initiatives and tools that include increasing tree cover as an important nature‐based solution to achieving national policy targets.
Bianca Ambrose‐Oji   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Growing trees on farms: Navigating the goals and values of farmers

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Agricultural landscapes represent critical contexts for advancing policy objectives related to tree cover expansion. This paper explores how farmers' values influence their willingness or ability to grow trees on farms. Research is based on 49 interviews and two focus groups with farmers in England and draws on two social science research ...
Stephen McConnachie   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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