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Insolvency‐related foreign judgements in Nigeria: Contextualising English legal influence and comparative analysis of the UNCITRAL regime

open access: yesInternational Insolvency Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) has produced the most robust international insolvency regime applicable to countries around the world. The Model Law on Cross‐Border Insolvency (1997) is widely accepted and already very popular among African countries.
Pontian N. Okoli
wiley   +1 more source

Caste as a Social Kind

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender and race have received significant philosophical attention recently; they are the paradigm cases of social kinds in most philosophical accounts. I argue for the inclusion of caste as a social kind because it affects the lives of many people, and because it presents itself as an important test case for philosophers of social kinds.
Ajinkya Deshmukh
wiley   +1 more source

Untouchability and inter-caste relations in rural India : the case of southern Tamil villages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Justice and equality are the two subjects often talked about by most of the nationalists and leaders of various political and ideological streams across the world including India.
Ramaiah, A.
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Increasing consumption, decreasing support: a multi-generational study of family relations among South Indian Chakkliyars [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This article looks at intergenerational relations in two Chakkliyar neighbourhoods in rural Tamil Nadu. Post-1991 economic changes, together with longer-term changes in the rural economy and state policies, have significantly widened the customary ‘needs
Vera-Sanso, Penny
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A Perspective of Multi‐Reflecting TOF MS

open access: yesMass Spectrometry Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry (TOF MS) excels in rapid and high‐sensitivity analysis, making it a cornerstone of analytical chemistry. But as sample complexity explodes in omics studies, so does the need for higher resolving power to ensure accurate results.
A. N. Verenchikov   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender, Social Reproduction and the Construction of Capabilities for Social Sustainability of Agriculture: A Relational Approach

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers' capabilities, a core component of social sustainability, have been largely neglected in sustainable agriculture discourse. Using a relational approach to capabilities and autonomy, this study explores how women farmers translate the opportunity of agricultural innovation into their valued outcomes, and which factors shape their ...
Dawn D. Cheong, Bettina Bock
wiley   +1 more source

Untouched [PDF]

open access: yesThe Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 2021
openaire   +3 more sources

When Touch Is Refused or Accepted in Art: A Comparison of Van Gogh’s The Sunflowers and Maurizio Cattelan’s The Comedian

open access: yesESPES
Moments of crisis are always worth analysing. When confronted by visitors’ hands, The Sunflowers and The Comedian represent contrasting attitudes. This divergence is determined by differences in their modes of existence, durations, irreproducibilities ...
Ying Wu
doaj   +3 more sources

Ambedkar and the Hindu culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
The Indian Neo Buddhism has aroused a movement since the 50s, which propa-gates Buddhism as the top form of the Indo-genous dharma. - The vast majority of that new religious movement belongs to the Dalits [1], people whose en-dogamous communities have ...
Weber, Edmund
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Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
wiley   +1 more source

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