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From Theatre to Transformation: Learning, Action, and Diffusion for SDG2 in Cambodia

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The arts are envisioned as able to help address the longstanding ‘implementation gap’ between research and realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For SDG2 (Zero Hunger), Forum Theatre offers a participatory alternative to top‐down interventions, yet its impacts have not been evaluated using rigorous, mixed‐methods that are ...
Brian R. Cook   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Newton Hall and the cruck buildings of North West England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This study is an introduction to the archaeology and history of Newton Hall, Hyde, in Tameside. As a timber-framed cruck building from the late medieval period it is one of the oldest homes in North West England, and was one of the first such buildings ...
Nevell, MD
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Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
wiley   +1 more source

Final report on the farmer's aid in plant disease diagnoses [PDF]

open access: yes, 1986
This report is the final report on the FAD project. The FAD project was initiated in september 1985 to test the expert system shell Babylon by developing a prototype crop disease diagnosis system in it.
Curwiel, P.H., Wieringa, R.J.
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Exploring a Systems Engineering Approach to Modelling Human Communication

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Communication is a crucial process for any successful purposeful human activity system as it mediates the information‐based relationships between a system's elements and parts, purpose(s) and boundaries. Human communication is more than just a process; it is a subsystem that interacts with other human activity systems, parts, elements and ...
Ryan Hekker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mosque architecture in Malaysia : classification of styles and possible influence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The main purpose of the research is to set up an initial framework of architectural description of Muslim architecture in Malaysia within the context of the architectural concern of ‘style’.
Mohamad Rasdi, Mohamad Tajuddin
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
wiley   +1 more source

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