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Noninvasive tests for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in a multi‐ethnic population: The HELIUS study

open access: yesHepatology Communications, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is increasing in prevalence and severity globally, prompting noninvasive testing, yet limited data exist on noninvasive liver tests (NITs) including transient elastography (TE) in ethnically diverse populations.
Anne‐Marieke van Dijk   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

It’s a Kind of Magic: Situating Nostalgia for Technological Progress and the Occult in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes

open access: yesImaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies, 2016
Guy Ritchie’s recent blockbuster success with a revisionist Sherlock Holmes is the latest in a series of popular films and fiction to have reinvigorated a nostalgic imaginary of London’s past that places the former capital of the Empire at the crossroads
Markus Reisenleitner
doaj   +1 more source

Urban sign. The polis furnished [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Just as the linguistic sign, defined by Saussure, is like a double-sided coin: significant + meaning, so the city can be defined by this dichotomy, that is, on the one hand is composed of matter and, second, to function or content. We travel the city as
Cabezas-Jimenez, Maria del Mar
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Civilising pedagogies: An ethnography of instructional and regulative discourses in government schools in Delhi, India

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the years, surveys and data on learning outcomes have consistently shown inadequate levels of learning in schools in India, witnessing a further decline in recent years. Studies within the sociology of education have consistently highlighted the overarching role of class and caste on learning outcomes in schools. Neoliberal policy reforms
Akshita Rawat
wiley   +1 more source

The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries delves into examples of urban imaginaries across multiple media and geographies: from new visions of smart, eco, and resilient cities to urban dystopias in popular culture; from architectural renderings of starchitecture and luxury living to performative activism for new spatial justice; and from speculative
openaire   +1 more source

Leadership and Sustainability in a Globalized World: Emerging Trends, Global Contexts, Key Challenges, and Effective Strategies

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This systematic review analyzes 109 studies from top business journals, exploring the connection between leadership and sustainability, including key leadership styles, emerging trends, and challenges in integrating sustainability into organizational strategies and operations.
Muzhar Javed   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Eco‐Social Lens on Voice for Undervoiced and Unvoiced Stakeholders

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This conceptual paper argues it is important from an ecological–social (eco‐social) whole system point of view for businesses and policymakers to take the interests of and impacts on unvoiced and undervoiced [un(der)voiced] stakeholders into consideration for both strategic and justice reasons.
Sandra Waddock
wiley   +1 more source

Metaphorical Foundations of the Generational Imaginary of Urban Russian Youth

open access: yesИнтеракция. Интервью. Интерпретация
The concept of generation has not lost its relevance for many decades; moreover, in the context of the erosion of traditional social classifications, it has acquired particular significance in the formation of social identities.
Nadezhda Andreevna Nartova
doaj   +1 more source

Walking as Do-It-Yourself Urbansim [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This article develops a series of theoretical notions arising in the context of an urban art project that took place in London in the summer of 2004 under the title “Where do you breathe?”1 As a participatory urban intervention, the project challenged ...
Cupers, Kenny
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Think Global, Act Local? Fortune 500 Business Strategies for Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11)

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of business towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been well established. However, SDG contextualization continues to pose a conundrum, particularly for firms operating in multiple contexts. This becomes even more problematic in the case of SDG 11, the only goal in the sustainable development agenda directly
Andreas Georgiou
wiley   +1 more source

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