"Yogis are known to hold inversions for long periods of time — 12 minutes, and I've even read there are some who hold them for hours. On the personal level, while I don't hold inversions anywhere near that long
Arguably, this account is spuriously elaborate. It might seem simpler and clearer to account for peroratives as one of the many kinds of indirection that can be housed in the category of a speaker’s perlocutionary force; then we would be done.Footnote10But the considerations assembled here hi...
Capability Approach (CA) extends our understanding of wellbeing by underlining the importance of freedoms. There is a need to operationalize CA components
We did not find evidence of coherent patterns to suggest that this was the case. Even though the context has changed considerably over time, the presence of macroeconomic phenomena could have shifted some of the relationships we found. A larger sample might have provided clearer and more ...
78 Companies can partner with numerous universities that offer programs aimed at adult students. For example, Masaryk University in the Czech Republic offers micro-certificate programs that teach skills across numerous domains, from economics to law. (The credits are recognized under the European ...
When making a thematic map, cartographers have to find accurate, up-to-date sources of information for a range of social and environmental phenomena. "We use a variety of sources to best generalize the feature we want to display," said Turner. "For example, for a population density map, ...
It is important to note that, within these countries, respondents were chosen randomly to ensure a diverse and equitable representation of the adult population. To ascertain the presence of MNBs in the 32 nations of the global South, we turned to the BankScope database provided by Bureau van ...
While one would expect the financial, mental, and physical stress due to COVID-19 to result in additional child maltreatment cases, we find that the actual number of reported allegations was approximately 15,000 lower (27%) than expected for these two months. We leverage a detailed dataset ...
The CARES Act took a multifaceted approach to stimulate the ailing economy during the early stages of the pandemic. The legislation put money directly into the pockets of U.S. consumers, authorizing direct stimulus payments of $1,200 per adult plus $500 per child for households making up to ...
adults use Twitter (Wojcik and Hughes, 2019), and that the characteristics of these users deviate from the general population’s: compared to the average adult in the U.S., Twitter users are much younger, are more likely to have college degrees, and are slightly more likely to identify ...