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Cashless Society – The Future of Money or a Utopia?
Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice, 2019 In recent years we have witnessed a growing trend in cashless transactions as well as products and services sold exclusively in this way. Also, after the onset of the global financial crisis, private crypto currencies appeared that have raised some ...
Nikola Fabris
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Scientific Utopia III: Crowdsourcing Science
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2019 Most scientific research is conducted by small teams of investigators who together formulate hypotheses, collect data, conduct analyses, and report novel findings. These teams operate independently as vertically integrated silos.
E. Uhlmann +9 more
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Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article identifies assistive technologies (ATs) as ‘pre‐technologies’ mediating access to other technologies for disabled subjects (DSs). The motivation is to show that without ATs, DSs cannot be said to have the same level of access to freedom and self‐forming activities as able‐bodied subjects.
Sarel Marais
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Between the Visionary and the Archaic: Iannis Xenakis's Cosmic City [PDF]
, 2003 Almost parallel with his groundbreaking theoretical work Musiques formelles (Xenakis, 1963), the late composer and architect Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) published “The Cosmic City” (Xenakis, 1965).
Sterken, Sven
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The Bazaar as a Model for Knowledge Work
Knowledge and Process Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents fieldwork that extends existing metaphors of knowledge work as a process shaped by hierarchical or market forces. A qualitative, ethnographic study of six knowledge‐intensive businesses in two countries identifies striking parallels with the Middle Eastern bazaar in contrast to Western impersonal markets and hierarchies. We
Reed Elliot Nelson +2 more
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Form and content in utopia [PDF]
, 1990 A critique of Habermas is theory of the three worlds as a foundation for criticism and social ...
Kolb, David
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How can children and young people have a voice in urban treescapes?
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Scientific understanding of climate change has, to date, failed to result in sufficient action. This paper proposes that a deficit model of top‐down learning and dissemination in relation to public engagement with science may be part of the problem, particularly when considering the attitudes, values and empowerment of children and young ...
Simon Carr +10 more
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npj VaccinesHighly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5 viruses from different clades have been circulating globally, threatening wild/domestic birds and mammals. Given frequent spillovers and high mortality among mammals, coupled with our inability to predict which
Shiho Chiba +11 more
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Smoothness conditions on measures using Wallman spaces
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, 1999 In this paper, X denotes an arbitrary nonempty set, ℒ a lattice of subsets of X with ∅,X∈ℒ,A(ℒ) is the algebra generated by ℒ and M(ℒ) is the set of nontrivial, finite, and finitely additive measures on A(ℒ), and MR(ℒ) is the set of elements of M(ℒ ...
Charles Traina
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