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Women tend to have lower interest in engineering as compared to men, which previous research has shown is partly explained by gender differences in self-efficacy, social belongingness and communal career goals. Therefore, to attract more women to engineering, effective interventions are needed that target these factors. In this study, we evaluated an industry-designed intervention for high school
STUDY QUESTION: What are the experiences of same-sex mothers following identity-release sperm donation regarding equal treatment in society, parenting stress and disclosure to child? SUMMARY ANSWER: Mothers predominantly reported equal treatment in society, low levels of parenting stress and early disclosure of the donor conception to the child, and half of the couples had also informed the child
Effective domestic revenue mobilization has gained renewed urgency, especially in the light of the need to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. In taxation debates, the ‘informal sectors’ have hitherto been assumed to be a part of the problem and implicitly mistaken for lucrative tax bases. First, I critically interrogate current conceptualizations of informality to highlight how the informality
Where do competition, antitrust and private equity intersect? Once antitrust’s favored child compared to strategic buyers, private equity seems to have fallen from competition enforcers’ grace. Interestingly, this is part of a broader trend: financial investors in general, from BlackRock to Blackstone, have come into the antitrust spotlight. Being a minority financial investor is no longer reason
En este trabajo se analizan ocurrencias de Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto (PPC) en entrevistas a personalidades del quehacer político y cultural de España y México. La elección del PPC en estos dialectos a menudo es caracterizada, según el caso, por codificar situaciones imperfectivas o situaciones que implican relevancia actual, en contraposición del Pretérito Perfecto Simple que implica situacioneThis paper analyzes occurrences of the Spanish compound past [“present perfect”, PPC] in interviews to personalities of the political and cultural life of Mexico and Spain. The choice of the PPC in theses dialects is often characterized by its codification of imperfective situations or situations that denote current relevance depending on the case, thus countering the Simple Past that comprises si
In the recent past, social media has gradually evolved from a platfrom for communication and personal exchange to a space where contemporary consumer desires are awakened, directed, and also fulfilled. Instagram, in particular, is one of the social media platforms that has made specific design decisions to combine the social and entertaining aspects of the native, virtual social media experience w
What kind of insights can anthropology offer to the study of IOs? This essay illustrates this via an inductive theorization on the effectiveness of organizational aesthetics.
