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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6090-6091)The 2010S began with big prizes going to Seamus Heaney and his friend Derek Walcott. Ten years later, both men are dead, and over the course of those years we have also lost Les Murray, John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich,...
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From:Trames (Vol. 24, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe aim of this study is to discuss nexus between defense spending and certain economic variables in Lithuania during 2009-2018. Considering the fact that there are no universal analytical tools for measuring defense...
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From:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedKEYWORDS: Robert Rodriguez, cable television, Comcast, Univision, millennials, Latino, consumer In 2013, El Rey launched as an ad-supported cable channel. Cofounded and majority owned by Robert Rodriguez, El Rey tapped...
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From:Studies in the Humanities (Vol. 44, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedGao Qunshu's 2009 blockbuster. The Message, became a major phenomenon in Chinese cinema and contemporary Chinese culture by synthesizing an intriguing narrative of Communist secret agents' mentalities in a mixed-genre...
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From:Latin American Research Review (Vol. 53, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSince the beginning of this century, significant changes occurred in relation to the distribution of income in Brazilian society, which recently has seen reduced inequality and middle income growth. On the basis of this...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6090-6091)Noise-cancelling headphones work because they contain their opposite: a microphone. This microphone picks up the ambient noise surrounding you--like the sound of a train, of the people, the electrical buzz of an office,...
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From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 19, Issue 17) Peer-Reviewed
The clean air actions implemented by the Chinese government in 2013 have led to significantly improved air quality in Beijing. In this work, we combined the in situ measurements of the chemical components of...
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From:Journal of Greek Media and Culture (Vol. 5, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the wake of Greece's economic crisis, expressions and acts of racism have become noticeably more prevalent, particularly in light of the rise of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party. Two significant topics in public...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6090-6091)THE PRESENT DECADE IN OPERA began pretty much as usual--with a debate about opera's survival. Indeed, for an art form that has flourished for more than four centuries in both courtly and commercial environments,...
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From:German Politics and Society (Vol. 39, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the evolution of textbook representations of colonialism in two North Rhine-Westphalian textbook series for the Sekundarstufe II since 1989. On the one hand, the article shows that the developing...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6090-6091)These were the years that were meant to alter the novel's very DNA, to reprogram its source code; in which our fiction would become as hypertextual as our lives. But, as with so many of our digital-era predictions--the...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6090-6091)Canadians are constitutionally unwilling to classify mass murders as terrorism, and as a result have seen very little terrorism on their soil. So Alek Minassian's 2018 attack in Toronto, in which he ploughed onto a busy...
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From:Refuge (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This article draws upon content analysis of Australian parliamentary transcripts to examine debates about asylum seekers who arrived by boat in three historical periods: 1977-1979, 1999-2001, and 2011-2013. We...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6090-6091)Perhaps the first major change of the decade for the film industry came with the advent of Mad Men (2007-15), Matthew Weiner's serial period drama set in the advertising world of 1950s-60s Manhattan. This was television...
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From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 19, Issue 20) Peer-Reviewed
The lack of a comprehensive, up-to-date emission inventory for the Himalayan region is a major challenge in understanding the extensive regional air pollution, including its causes, impacts and mitigation pathways....
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From:The Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAgainst neoliberal economics and the fatal march of globalization in the late 1990s, young people worldwide began to organize ways of fighting and resistance to the contradictions created by the state of exception...
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From:eLife (Vol. 10) Peer-ReviewedMost funding agencies rely on peer review to evaluate grant applications and proposals, but research into the use of this process by funding agencies has been limited. Here we explore if two changes to the organization...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6090-6091)The 2010S have been the last full decade in my career as a university teacher--one that, by the time I retire in 2022, will have spanned almost forty-five years. For most us in the profession, these ten years have been...
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From:Latin American Research Review (Vol. 55, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article describes and explains the underrepresentation of women in ministerial cabinets during the period 1979-2015 in Ecuador. Using an unpublished database and linear regression model, the article shows that the...
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From:The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies (Vol. 44, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedJordan has adopted various policies to attract foreign direct investment in light of the country's urgent need to increase economic resources, thus providing many investment opportunities for foreign investors. There is...