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Symbolic Interactionism, Mass Panics and Urban Legends
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2010 The constructionist approach to social problems has developed a thesis about mass panics and urban legends as „unconstructed social problems“. This thesis, advanced by the American sociologist Joel Best, and his analysis of the urban legend of Halloween ...
Ivan Kovačević
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More than an urban legend: the short- and long-run effects of unplanned fertility shocks
, 2018 This paper examines the short- and long-run effects of a quasi-exogenous variation in fertility behavior due to a yearlong period of power rationing in Colombia in 1992.
T. Fetzer, Oliver Pardo, Amar Shanghavi
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the growth of eSports, the sector faces critical challenges related to its sustainability. This research analyzes these issues from an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) perspective. This paper consists of a systematic literature review on eSports and its implications for sustainability.
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Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016 Review of the book by Ivan Kovačević. 2009. Urbane legende. Ogledi iz američkog folklora. [Urban Legends. Musings on American Folklore]. Beograd: Srpski genealoški centar i Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju Filozofskog fakulteta u Beogradu. Etnološka biblioteka 39.
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Hook or hatchet – Lover 's Lane, love scene epilogue
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016 Myth of a couple who escape death in a chance encounter with the psychopath with a hook instead of a hand, is one of the ten classic urban legends that have been brought to public attention by folklorists during the sixth and seventh decade of the ...
Ivan Kovačević
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the interplay between climate change, violent conflict and forced migration in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), focusing on asylum flows to the European Union (EU). By integrating high‐resolution climate, conflict and socioeconomic data spanning 2000 to 2023, we develop a comprehensive empirical framework to ...
Shifa Mathbout +4 more
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Sewer Alligators: Urban Legends as Cognitive Maps
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016 Following the reports of sewer alligators in the 1930s, the story has built up over the decades and become a bona fide urban legend. These (reports) are based upon stories of alligator, and other wild animal sightings in rather unorthodox locations ...
Ljubomir Hristić
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Wildlife Letters, EarlyView.Asiatic black bears in Russia face conservation threats such as habitat destruction and fragmentation, which exacerbate food shortages caused by crop failures. This study explores an innovative approach to rehabilitating bears that abandon hibernation in mid‐winter due to extreme exhaustion by providing supplemental food near their den sites.
Sergey A. Kolchin +2 more
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Neutron reflectometry instrumentation at the ISIS source: current state
Journal of Applied Crystallography, EarlyView.This article presents the current capabilities of the four time‐of‐flight neutron reflectometers at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, highlighting recent advances in instrumentation, automation and data analysis that enable high‐precision studies of interfacial structures across diverse scientific fields.Neutron reflectometry (NR) at the ISIS Neutron ...
Mario Campana +8 more
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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