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Abstract Germany is a corporate environment that is sceptical towards digitalization and work‐from‐home, and in which it is customary to separate professional and personal spheres of life. The COVID‐19 pandemic, and ensuing government‐mandated shutdowns, changed all that by inducing extensive work‐from‐home conditions for most of the white collared ...
Jasmin Mahadevan +3 more
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Ambassador Vich’s palace in Valencia (1526-1858) was one of the first examples of renaissance architecture in Spain. After its demolition, part of the courtyard’s marbles was conserved, gathered, after a century and a half of pilgrimage in a unifying ...
Mercedes Galiana Agulló +3 more
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This study addresses the impact of pandemics, economic limitations, and physical constraints on physical pilgrimage by proposing and evaluating a culturally sensitive, ritual-oriented virtual Boudhanath Stupa environment. Using user-centered design (UCD)
Chia Hui Nico Lo
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Homological Correspondence: Israel as a Frontier of Global Domination
ABSTRACT This article offers a novel framing for enquiring the deep entanglement between Israel and Western‐led global centers of domination. Moving beyond geopolitical reasonings and historical analogies, it locates this relationship within a dynamic space of homological correspondence, positioning Israel as its frontier.
Wassim Ghantous
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Framing European Heritage and Identity: Cultural Policy Instruments of the European Union
Abstract This submission examines the impact of the European Union (EU) policy efforts to construct a European Heritage and a sense of belonging within the wider European population on Heritage policy. The article explores how the EU has selected and wielded instruments that frame particular values that (1) respond to specific policy problems and ...
Anthony R. Zito, Susannah Eckersley
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Abstract This chapter examines the contours of the religious and spiritual information experiences subfield through a review and content analysis of selected contributions from the past two decades in both information science and related fields. The research question that guides this review is: How have spirituality and religion been conceptualized in ...
Nadia Caidi +4 more
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Abstract The desert climate of the Arabian Peninsula (AP), marked by sparse rainfall, extreme temperatures, and frequent dust events, significantly impacts its 80‐million population, environment, and economy. Rising temperatures and dust incursions exacerbate these harsh conditions, yet the AP's climate is underrepresented in global climate research ...
Ibrahim Hoteit +49 more
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The use of virtual reality (VR) technology in Islamic Religious Education learning in schools has become an interesting topic to improve students’ understanding of religious concepts.
Aziza Aryati +5 more
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ABSTRACT This article introduces religeopolitics as a conceptual framework for analyzing how religious actors participate in the production of geopolitical space through affective, embodied, and relational practices. It positions religion as a constitutive element of geopolitical analysis rather than an exceptional or marginal category within it. While
Tanner Morrison
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Virtual Reenactment of the Itaewon Crowd Crush Using Kinodynamic Simulation
ABSTRACT We propose new crowd simulation methods to virtually reenact the Itaewon disaster that occurred in 2022 due to the extreme crowd density. Conventional techniques make it challenging to simulate diverse, extremely dense crowd behaviors such as crowd surge, fluidization, and falls observed at the Itaewon disaster.
Juyi Hwang, Young J. Kim
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