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Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology

Julia Twigg • Routledge eBooks (2015)

Later years are changing under the impact of demographic, social and cultural shifts. No longer confined to the sphere of social welfare, they are now studied within a wider cultural framework that encompasses new experiences and new modes ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203097090

Qualitative Gerontology

Martha Holstein • Research on Aging (1995)

This commentary examines four articles in qualitative and humanistic gerontology, with the purpose of explicating the goals of such work, the criteria that make them exemplary, and the contribution they make to an enriched understanding of ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027595171006

The Coming of Materials Science

David A. Weitz • Physics Today (2002)

The Coming of Materials Science , Robert W. Cahn Pergamon, New York, 2001. $64.00 (568 pp.). isbn 0-08-042679-4 If one takes the broadest view, a significant fraction of modern-day physicists are materials scientists. Similarly, many chemis...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1496379

Proteoliposomes – a system to study membrane proteins under buffer gradients by cryo-EM

Sejwal Kushal, Chami Mohamed, Baumgartner Paul, Kowal Julia et al. • Nanotechnology Reviews (2017)

Membrane proteins are vital to life and major therapeutic targets. Yet, understanding how they function is limited by a lack of structural information. In biological cells, membrane proteins reside in lipidic membranes and typically experie...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1515/ntrev-2016-0081

The Archaeology of the Colonized

Michael Given • Routledge eBooks (2004)

The first book to integrate fully the archaeological study of the landscape with the concerns of colonial and postcolonial history, theory and scholarship, The Archaeology of the Colonized focuses on the experience of the colonized in their...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203644188

Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology

Hisao Mabuchi, Edward V. Sayre, Pamela B. Vandiver, James R. Druzik et al. • Studies in Conservation (1991)

the purpose of this meeting is to present new and current research which: shares an empirical methodology of observation and measurement; concerns interdisciplinary studies of art, archaeology, architecture, ancient technology, and conserva...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1506337

Emotion in Archaeology

Sarah A. Tarlow • Current Anthropology (2000)

Despite the establishment of significant traditions of emotion research in many disciplines, there has been little discussion of the state and potential of the archaeological study of emotion. This paper aims to review archaeological approa...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/317404

Archaeology of Ancient Australia

Peter Dixon Hiscock • Routledge eBooks (2007)

This book is an introduction to the archaeology of Australia from prehistoric times to the eighteenth century AD. It is the only up-to-date textbook on the subject and is designed for undergraduate courses, based on the author's considerabl...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203448359

Obtaining new resolutions in carnivore tooth pit morphological analyses: A methodological update for digital taphonomy.

Lloyd A Courtenay, Darío Herranz-Rodrigo, Rosa Huguet, Miguel Ángel Maté-González et al. • PLoS ONE (2020)

Modern day investigation in fields of archaeology and palaeontology can be greatly characterised by an exponential growth of integrated new technologies, nevertheless, while these advances are of great significance to multiple lines of rese...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240328

The Archaeology of Inequality.

Matthew H. Johnson, Randall H. McGuire, Robert Paynter • Man (1992)

The archaeology of inequality - material culture, domination and resistance, Rober T.Paynter and Randall H.McGuire struggling with pots in South Carolina, Leland Ferguson the continued pattern of dominance - landlord and tenant on the postb...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2803940

ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE BODY

Rosemary A. Joyce • Annual Review of Anthropology (2005)

Under the influence of phenomenological approaches, a semiotic perspective on the body is being replaced in archaeology by analysis of the production and experience of lived bodies in the past through the juxtaposition of traces of body pra...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.143729

An archaeology of capitalism

Prof Christopher, N. Matthews • Choice Reviews Online (1996)

Capitalism has been the focus of a great deal of social thinking and activity since the 18th-century. Understanding capitalism as both an economic and a cultural phenomenon has shed light on its inner workings as a system as well as guided ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.33-5878

Archaeology and the Senses

Yannis Hamilakis • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2013)

This book is an exciting new look at how archaeology has dealt with the bodily senses and offers an argument for how the discipline can offer a richer glimpse into the human sensory experience. Yannis Hamilakis shows how, despite its intens...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139024655

A Companion to archaeology

• Choice Reviews Online (2004)

Bintliff, John, ed., A Companion to Archaeology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. word archaeology conjures up images of people in pith helmets digging into the sandy earth of the desert or monumental buildings rising above jungle foliag...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.42-1649

Best practice relief supply for emergency services in a developed economy

Mark M.J. Wilson, Peter Tatham, John Payne, Cécile L’Hermitte et al. • Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management (2018)

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the challenges inherent in planning and responding to disaster events in a multi-agency context where numerous governmental and non-governmental actors and agencies are involved in the plann...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1108/JHLSCM-03-2017-0008

Assessment and Analysis of Iran's long-term Competitive Industrial Performance Gap

Mirabdollah Hosseini, Faezeh Moradi Haghighi • International Journal of Business and Development Studies (2023)

The Competitive Industrial Performance Index (CIP) measures a country's ability to produce, add value, export, and impact global trade through manufacturing industries. To improve industrial competitiveness, focus must be given to expanding...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.22111/ijbds.2023.45808.2033

Individual shareholders’ understanding of the content of interim reports of South African listed retail companies

Johan GI Oberholster, Carolina Koornhof, Quintus Vorster • South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences (2015)

A number of studies conducted, and reports published, by international and local accounting bodies have found that the proliferation of disclosures in financial reports has hampered users’ understanding of these reports. The reports by acco...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4102/sajems.v18i2.634

The Relation between emotional eating and perceived stress among students in tertiary education in Oman: A single-center study

Asma Al Shidhani, Asma Al Samani, Tahani Al Malki, Bashair Al Shukaili et al. • Taiwanese Journal of Psychiatry (2023)

Objectives: Preliminary studies suggested that the high rates of stress are increasingly prevalent in students in tertiary education in the Arabian Gulf countries and that their emotional eating is often triggered by stress. Nevertheless, t...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4103/TPSY.TPSY_3_23

A Data-Driven Approach for Enhancing Customer Loyalty through Strategic Business Innovations and Technology Integration

Venkataramana Karri, Polamarasetty Nooka Appa Rao, Gopal Krishna Sanapala, V Vijaya Kumar et al. • Ianna Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (2025)

Background: Customer trust and loyalty are critical in today’s competitive business environment. Integrating technology, sustainability, and omnichannel approaches has been recognised as a key factor in enhancing customer experience. Howeve...

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