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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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The book Online-Communities as Social Systems: Wikis, Weblogs and Social Software in E-Learning by DITTLER, KINDT and SCHWARZ discusses the practice of new collaborative applications for learning and teaching in universities and schools.
Martin Welker
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PARTY‐STATE URBANISM: Coevolution of Local State Capacity and Strategic Alliances in Shenzhen
Abstract What is distinct about Chinese urban governance? Classic theories predict that when the central state retreats from resource allocation, capacity‐strained local governments must form alliances with non‐state actors, thereby diluting state power. In China, however, state power remains dominant despite decentralization.
Yunhan Wen
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Summary Modernising the European Union’s plant variety registration system is critical to enabling the development and adoption of sustainable, climate‐resilient varieties aligned with the EU Farm‐to‐Fork Strategy. However, the current system is outdated and under increasing pressure. While legislative reform is underway, key points of divergence among
Sergio Urioste Daza +2 more
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Web 2.0 Technologies in Internal and External Communications in the Banking Sector
In a setting where the market-based economy is gradually yielding to a network-based economy, and social and economic relations are increasingly based on networking, banks are not exempt from changes brought about by developments in ICT and the Internet
Marton Sakal +2 more
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Output Quality, Productivity, and Demand: Evidence from the Chinese Steel Industry
ABSTRACT Unobserved objective output quality complicates the analysis of firm productivity and demand because higher‐quality products entail higher costs but offer greater consumption benefits. Using a panel of firms with output quality data, we decompose quantity‐based productivity into fundamental productivity and the costs of quality, and separate ...
Jing Li, Shengyu Li, Hongsong Zhang
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Participation in wiki communities: reconsidering their statistical characterization. [PDF]
Tenorio-Fornés Á, Arroyo J, Hassan S.
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ABSTRACT CPA enabling competencies underpin the human skills and professional values that all future accountants should possess. Nevertheless, to date, the discourse is limited within the scholarship of teaching and learning on how to best inculcate these competencies in future accountants.
Sanobar Siddiqui
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Collaborative Writing: Fostering Foreign Language and Writing Conventions Development [PDF]
The use of social technologies, such as wikis and chats, has brought a renewed attention to L2 collaborative writing. Yet, a question that still remains to be answered is the extent to which learners’ writing is enhanced when using these tools.
Elola Idoia, Oskoz, Ana
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Investigating proxies for retail investor attention in financial markets
Abstract Investor attention influences financial markets but “depends on where you search” (Ben‐Rephael et al., The Review of Financial Studies, 2017, 30, 3009). We explore various retail investor attention proxies and their correlations with company characteristics and market reactions.
Daniel Cahill +2 more
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