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How the Dominant Reading Direction Changes Parafoveal Processing: A Combined EEG/Eye-Tracking Study. [PDF]

open access: yesPsychophysiology
ABSTRACT Reading directions vary across writing systems. Through long‐term experience, readers adjust their visual systems to the dominant reading direction in their writing systems. However, little is known about the neural correlates underlying these adjustments because different writing systems do not just differ in reading direction, but also in ...
Huang X   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Global legal change from below and above

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 295-321, September 2023., 2023
Abstract This article is a contribution to the occasional series dealing with a major book that has influenced the author. Previous contributors include Stewart Macaulay, John Griffith, William Twining, Carol Harlow, Geoffrey Bindman, Harry Arthurs, André‐Jean Arnaud, Alan Hunt, Michael Adler, Lawrence O. Gostin, John P.
TERENCE C. HALLIDAY
wiley   +1 more source

The client net state: Trajectories of state control over cyberspace

open access: yesPolicy &Internet, Volume 15, Issue 1, Page 133-151, March 2023., 2023
Abstract Social media corporations have become fixtures of daily life to the extent they are regularly compared to states in size and scope. These corporations and their platforms have become the dominant stakeholders of cyberspace, operating as state‐like cyber actors, or net states.
Callum J. Harvey, Christopher L. Moore
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnic Disparities in Risk Factors for Myopia among Han and Minority Schoolchildren in Shawan, Xinjiang, China

open access: yesOptometry and Vision Science, Volume 100, Issue 1, Page 82-90, January 2023., 2023
SIGNIFICANCE The ethnic differences in myopia rates, ocular dimensions, and risk factors between Han and non‐Han schoolchildren observed in this study may help fill the knowledge gap about ethnic minorities and are important for China and other countries to address vision‐related health inequalities among different ethnic groups.
Yumeng Shi   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Issues in Uyghur phonology

open access: yesLanguage and Linguistics Compass, Volume 16, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022
Abstract This article presents an overview of several significant aspects of the phonology of Uyghur (ISO: uig; pronounced [ʊjˈʁʊr]; Turkic: China). In addition to summarising previous research, we present new data and highlight its relevance for phonological theory.
Connor Mayer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic purism as resistance to colonization

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 315-334, June 2022., 2022
Abstract As the Mongolian language is equated with ethnic survival in Inner Mongolia, the metadiscourse of Mongolian linguistic purism has become a vital tactic for enacting Mongolian identity and creating a counterspace against Chinese linguistic and cultural hegemony.
Gegentuul Baioud, Cholmon Khuanuud
wiley   +1 more source

Who Cares About the Conditions? Modern Slavery in Global Supply Chain Practises: A Transnational Agenda to Promote Decent, Inclusive and Sustainable Practises

open access: yesBusiness Strategy &Development, Volume 9, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This study provides an extensive review of modern slavery practises within the global supply chain, highlighting it as a significant human rights violation that affects both the well‐being of victims and the overall supply chain performance of organisations.
Kingsley Kofi Arthur   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 29-52, March 2026.
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
wiley   +1 more source

Participation Disenchants: How Online Political Participation Decreases Online Political Efficacy in China

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, Volume 20, Issue 1, Page 35-63, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Existing literature largely agrees that authoritarian regimes establish channels for political participation to gather valuable information on citizens' anti‐regime sentiments and policy preferences and to supervise lower‐level bureaucrats and firms.
Anton Bogs
wiley   +1 more source

From Multicultural Experiment to Performing “China's Story”: Complying With Shifting Norms at a Chinese–Hungarian Bilingual School

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, Volume 20, Issue 1, Page 226-243, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Adopting a broad understanding of compliance as adherence to norms, this study examines the role of the Chinese–Hungarian Bilingual School in Budapest in the propagation of institutional, educational, and civic norms, through an anthropological inquiry into the discourses and practices embraced and enacted by teachers, parents, and students ...
Fanni Beck, Pál Nyíri
wiley   +1 more source

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