Journal articles: 'Amazing Race'

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Noblitt, Bethany A., and Brooke E. Buckley. "The Amazing Mathematical Race." Mathematics Teacher 105, no. 2 (September 2011): 134–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mathteacher.105.2.0134.

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Yap, Joseph Marmol, and Janice Penaflor. "The amazing library race." Journal of Information Literacy 14, no. 1 (June 5, 2020): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.11645/14.1.2708.

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In this time of disinformation and misinformation, libraries remain a reliable source of truthful and factual information. As they fervently support the agenda of lifelong learning, libraries recognise that there are various influences that redefine the process of student learning. Admittedly, librarians need to be more creative in motivating post-millennial students to help them fully develop their Media and Information Literacy (MIL) skills. This paper explores how games are adopted and utilised by academic libraries as an interactive approach to entice students to learn essential MIL competencies. It shows how games can be a viable tool not only to deliver information literacy (IL) instruction in a collaborative learning environment but to also effectively engage and attract students to use the library resources and services. While the use of games is not novel, the way it is delivered and re-purposed to meet MIL competencies is vital for today’s young generation of learners. This report demonstrates how two academic libraries in the Philippines and Kazakhstan were able to embed MIL skills through a library race challenge. Furthermore, this paper discusses the practical steps undertaken in the preparation of the game as well as the observations made during and after the activity was conducted. From this, other libraries may gain insights and best practices on how to leverage this method to further champion MIL in their own communities.

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Kemp, Christopher. "Evolution's amazing arms race." Science 359, no. 6379 (March 1, 2018): 1000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aar6211.

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Rodriguez, N., A. Ebinger, K. Oksuita, J. Niewold, and J. Tupesis. "Environmental Emergencies Amazing Race." Annals of Emergency Medicine 62, no. 5 (November 2013): S172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2013.06.040.

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Flynn, Eleanor, Debbie Leach, Adrienne Newman, and Sally Kent-Ferguson. "Intern Orientation: the Amazing Case Race." Medical Education 41, no. 11 (November 2007): 1100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2923.2007.02879.x.

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DiPietro, Elizabeth, Paula Reber, and Tami Swearingen. "Joint Commission Preparation: An Amazing Race." SOJ Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences 4, no. 4 (2017): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.15226/2374-6866/4/4/00152.

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Ramaswamy, Vijay, and Michael D. Taylor. "The Amazing and Deadly Glioma Race." Cancer Cell 28, no. 3 (September 2015): 275–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccell.2015.08.010.

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Smiley, Sarah L. "Teaching Cultural Geography with The Amazing Race." Journal of Geography 116, no. 3 (November 28, 2016): 109–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00221341.2016.1253763.

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Field-Springer, Kimberly, and Katie Margavio Striley. "Amazing race: Finding and correctly citing credible sources." Communication Teacher 30, no. 1 (December 22, 2015): 22–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17404622.2015.1102308.

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Goodwin, Irwin. "Amazing Race: The SSC Contest Generates Disorder and Discord." Physics Today 41, no. 5 (May 1988): 69–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2811413.

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Joffe, A. Mark. "Desperate Therapies and the Amazing Race for Antimicrobial Alternatives." Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology 17, no. 5 (2006): 285. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2006/695698.

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Infectious diseases remain a leading cause of death worldwide. Despite this fact, as well as the increasing recognition that microbial resistance is emerging as a serious threat to human health, antimicrobial research and development are declining. The current situation has evolved through a complex interaction of scientific, economic and regulatory forces. New approaches are needed. If therapies are unavailable or failing, we have only two options: we can prevent infections or we can develop new strategies to deal with them.

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Binshtein, Elad, and Melanie D. Ohi. "Cryo-Electron Microscopy and the Amazing Race to Atomic Resolution." Biochemistry 54, no. 20 (May 14, 2015): 3133–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.5b00114.

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Mathews, Sarah A. "DisruptingThe Amazing Race: Education, Exploration, and Exploitation in Reality Television." Theory & Research in Social Education 37, no. 2 (April 2009): 247–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00933104.2009.10473396.

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Elizabeth Bush. "The Great Race: The Amazing Round-the-World Auto Race of 1908 (review)." Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 61, no. 10 (2008): 416–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bcc.0.0152.

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Khong, Hou Keat, Swi Ee Cheah, Nurul Na’imy Wan, and Susana Martínez Vellón. "Does the adapted version of The Amazing Race (AVOTAR) benefit Spanish language learning among technical students?" Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 31, no. 1 (August 27, 2018): 159–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/resla.15019.kho.

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Abstract Students’ lack of interest and motivation in language learning has long been the focus of language scholars and researchers. In the Malaysian Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) context, this concern has posed many practical challenges particularly to the foreign language teachers. This study proposes a teaching innovation adapted from the popular reality television program, The Amazing Race, to instill and promote interest in learning Spanish among the technical students. The study on the Adapted Version of The Amazing Race (AVOTAR) was conducted using a quantitative dominant mixed methods approach in a technical university where Spanish language is a compulsory subject. The quantitative findings show that AVOTAR improves learners’ linguistic performance especially in the areas of vocabulary and reading comprehension while the qualitative findings indicate that AVOTAR helps increase learners’ motivation. This may contribute useful insights to address the challenges and improve the curriculum and instruction of foreign languages.

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Molz, Jennie Germann. "Representing pace in tourism mobilities: staycations, Slow Travel andThe Amazing Race." Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 7, no. 4 (December 2009): 270–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14766820903464242.

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McGiboney, Colleen, and Scott L. Roberts. "Using Map Widgets to Take Kindergarten Students on an “Amazing Race”." Social Studies 106, no. 1 (September 30, 2014): 8–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2014.959113.

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Austin, Richard A., Denisse R. Thompson, and Charlene E. Beckmann. "Locusts for Lunch: Connecting Mathematics, Science, and Literature." Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 12, no. 4 (November 2006): 182–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mtms.12.4.0182.

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Locusts for lunch? if you watch reality television, lunching on locusts is tame compared with some of the edibles that participants in Fear Factor, the Amazing Race, Survivor, and other programs are required to eat. Locusts are considered delicacies in many parts of the world.

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Angell, Katelyn, and Katherine Boss. "Adapting the Amazing Library Race: Using problem-based learning in library orientations." College & Undergraduate Libraries 23, no. 1 (January 2, 2016): 44–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10691316.2014.935547.

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Thakur, Atul Kumar. "Book Review: Superpower? The Amazing Race between China’s Hare and India’s Tortoise." India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs 68, no. 1 (March 2012): 94–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097492841106800108.

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Boss, Katherine, Katelyn Angell, and Eamon Tewell. "The Amazing Library Race: tracking student engagement and learning comprehension in library orientations." Journal of Information Literacy 9, no. 1 (May 15, 2015): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.11645/9.1.1885.

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McGrath, Karen. "Gender, Race, and Latina Identity: An Examination of Marvel Comics' Amazing Fantasy and Araña." Atlantic Journal of Communication 15, no. 4 (November 27, 2007): 268–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15456870701483599.

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Tessitore, Tina, Mario Pandelaere, and Anneleen Van Kerckhove. "The Amazing Race to India: Prominence in reality television affects destination image and travel intentions." Tourism Management 42 (June 2014): 3–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2013.10.001.

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Viviers, Herman Albertus. "Qualitative evaluation of the design variables of a teaching intervention to expose accounting students to pervasive skills." Industry and Higher Education 30, no. 6 (August 20, 2016): 402–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950422216664244.

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The primary objective of this article is to evaluate the design variables of a newly developed teaching intervention, ‘The Amazing Tax Race’. It comprises a race against time in which accounting students participate within teams in multiple tax-related activities so that they are exposed to pervasive skills. The findings provide information to accounting educators on the effectiveness of the design variables considered in the development of teaching initiatives aimed at pervasive skills development. The evaluation was conducted by means of a qualitative analysis of focus group transcripts gathered from interviews held with accounting students who participated in the teaching intervention hosted at a South African university accredited by the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants. Overall, the design variables applied were found to contribute positively to pervasive skills development. The format of the intervention could serve to overcome the challenge of accommodating large student groups. The author also notes limitations and makes recommendations for designing future teaching interventions.

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王, 也. "Viewing the Innovation of the Reality TV Show through the Success and Failure of The Amazing Race." Journalism and Communications 03, no. 01 (2015): 5–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.12677/jc.2015.31002.

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Talukdar, Susmita. "Story-telling Silk Route Collapsing the Walls of Differences: An Analysis on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s One Amazing Thing." Literary Studies 29, no. 01 (December 1, 2016): 68–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/litstud.v29i01.39614.

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The article examines power of narrative/storytelling in developing collective force that would serve as survival strategy for facing catastrophe. In Divakaruni’s One Amazing Thing the nine characters, who are trapped by a major earthquake in the basement of a high-rise building of Indian visa office in US, go on telling his/her stories of their past, ‘one amazing thing’ of their lives that they have never been able to share with anyone. Like a very ancient story telling form e.g. the Panchatantra, stories lead to more stories. One story makes the listeners to muse about how it applies to their lives, and that ultimately leads them coming up with their own stories, the choice of which is influenced by the previous story. In their manner of telling stories, the characters feel strangely bound to each other, though they are so different from each other. It is the incredible power of storytelling that collapses the wall of several tags of identity, and brings together the strangers, who are stuck in one room due to natural disaster. Ironically the story takes place in a visa office that confirms one’s identity in terms of his/her nationality, race, ethnicity and similar others. It is a natural disaster that brings people from different origin closer to each other and it is the healing power of narrative/storytelling that dissolves all differences revealing what it means to be human.

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Matta, May. "A Community, a Remedy against Social Fragmentation in Roots, the Saga of an American Family." English Language and Literature Studies 7, no. 1 (January 20, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v7n1p1.

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Alex Haley embarks on a journey to discover his roots, based on the stories he had been told by his grandmother. His visit to Gambia and his conversations with griots yield the amazing book, Roots. The book explores various themes including religion, race, manhood, and community. Of these themes, community stands out most. Throughout the book, Alex Haley mentions the different ways in which the community remains together despite the challenges. During all the phases of enslavement, the role of the community in the lives of the Africans is evident. Therefore, this research provides evidence that community is the remedy against social fragmentation in Roots. Moreover, the research informs the reader about the meaning of community to one of the main characters, Kunta. It also touches on the ways in which African slaves managed to retain their identity in a foreign land, despite the hindrances to community unity.

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Barker, Randolph T., Philip R. Sturm, and Michael Camarata. "Using Social Learning Theory to Reduce Small Business Breakdown along the Internet Superhighway: An Exploratory Model." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 27, no. 3 (July 1997): 237–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/xb2p-8rru-x601-8qyj.

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As the speed of travel on the “Information Superhighway” accelerates, many small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) do not effectively keep pace. SME computer resistors include 1) the slow-plodding neophyte computer users in the far right hand lane, 2) the firms curious about computerization but who are yet to make a purchase decision, idling in neutral on the access ramps, and 3) the business that purchases improper equipment and/or software and ventures onto the “road” without proper training and support, being run over by the speeding industry. In the information high-tech world of the 1990s it seems amazing that an estimated quarter of all small businesses still do not have their first personal computer. This article calls upon the innovators of the communications field to look in the rear view mirror to see the businesses left behind in the information expansion race. A model utilizing social learning theory defines a framework for road service [1], getting the small business “resister” up to the information superhighway speed limit.

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Hady, M. Samsul. "FILSAFAT IKHWAN ASH-SHAFA." ULUL ALBAB Jurnal Studi Islam 8, no. 2 (December 26, 2018): 117–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.18860/ua.v8i2.6199.

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Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa) is a group of philosophers in medieval Islamic history. They declared themselves as opponents of any chastity, impurity, or opacity. Their thoughts compiled in an encyclopedia containing of fifty two treaties (epistles), titled al-Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa wa Khullan al-Wafa. Al-Rasa'il extensively surveys a huge range of subjects ranging from music to magic. They are didactic in tone and highly eclectic in content, providing both pedagogical and culture mirror of their Age and its diverse philosophies and creeds. Therefore, al-Rasail is still debatable of its origin, one claims to the writing of Ali bin Abi Talib, the fourth Muslim Caliph (d. 40/661), or the writing of the sixth Shi'ite imam, Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq. The encyclopedia aspires to encompass all knowledge, from all sources, and to give meaning to the struggles of the human race. One of all amazing notions of the Brethren of Purity is a numerical symbolism as applied to explain qualitative correspondence of three principal beings: God as The Creator, universe, and human being.

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Ker-Chang Chang, Henry, Hardy Lin, and Nilesh Patankar. "EFFECTIVE CRM ENHANCEMENT STRATEGIES FOR INDIAN RETAIL MARKET." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 5, no. 4 (April 30, 2017): 12–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v5.i4.2017.1790.

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The retail sector in India is one of the fast paced moving sectors and as per the experts; retail sector market size growth is expected to USD 1.3 trillion by 2020. Among India’s most attractive features for doing business, investors rated its vast domestic market and availability of cheap labor as most appealing which made India as a most promising emerging market among Asian countries and has become Centre of attraction for investors all around the globe. Taiwan is also not behind the race. After President Tsai’s proposal of “new southbound policy”, many investors from Taiwan including Terry Gou have shown a keen interest in Indian market. Though the potential growth is immense, due to ever increasing competition retailers are always under pressure to engage their customers more efficiently than before. The purpose of this paper is to explain incorporation of RFM analysis techniques to provide key insights to the retailers. It is expected that with the proposed approach retailers and investors from India and Taiwan will be able to create customer focused sales driven strategies to create amazing shopping experience for its customers.

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Pauling-Shepard, K. L., L. P. Ward, M. K. Bouchard, J. M. Leavitt, S. L. Houshmand, J. A. Russell, and T. J. Louie. "The amazing race—to MBL hell and back. An outbreak of Metallo-Beta-Lactamase producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa (MBL-Psa) on a Bone Marrow Transplant Unit." Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 12, no. 2 (February 2006): 154–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbmt.2005.11.479.

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Varah, Mahaingam, Warren A. Shipton, and Zeny Vidacak. "In the Beginning … Creation." Abstract Proceedings International Scholars Conference 7, no. 1 (December 18, 2019): 2119–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.35974/isc.v7i1.2196.

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Research objectives: The creative activities involved all members of the Godhead. A possible delineation of their roles was investigated. Further, a rationale for creation was sought given knowledge that the progenitors of the race would betray their trust. Methodology adopted: The historical-grammatical approach was used in textual understanding. The Genesis account was compared with parallel passages and this was combined with variants in word meanings and was contrasted with the message conveyed by other passages. An understanding of God’s character and the defining features of His government were used to answer the second research question. Findings: Accounts given by the apostle John and those recorded at Jesus’ baptism and at the pre-advent judgment described by Daniel suggests that at creation the Father spoke, the Son initiated the creative acts, and the Spirit performed an organizational and activating role. The cooperative activities of the members of the Godhead illustrate the reality of the operation of love (agape type) from the beginning. Further analysis showed that the creation of this world represented an expression and the triumph of love in the face of knowledge that humans would fail in the trust given them. Love also explains how the foundational elements of God’s character and government fit together—concepts of righteousness, justice, truth, mercy and faithfulness— and hence illustrates how human salvation (recreation) is possible. Discussion: Creation is seen as a planned event dashing the claims of evolution that existence preceded essence. The existence of a widespread sense of right and wrong, of human sexuality, of the amazing analytical and creative capacity of the human mind speaks that essence preceded existence. This is confirmed by the day to day experiences of those who permit God to undertake the recreation of His character image in them. Further research on the questions raised is merited.

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HOUCINE, Hayet. "INTERNATİONAL PROTECTION; NUCLEAR RADIATION; ENVIRONMENT." RIMAK International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 03, no. 03 (March 1, 2021): 12–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2717-8293.3-3.2.

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Man has taken advantage of technological development positively in developing and facilitating his daily life. The environment has also benefited greatly from this development through various devices and discoveries in various fields such as renewable energies and nuclear energy, in which man has made remarkable progress and used it for peaceful purposes such as generating electrical energy or using X-rays in Medicine or for exploration purposes such as space invasion, satellite launching, or military purposes. On the other hand, man took advantage of this rapid development in other negative uses by harming himself and his environment.The competition for armaments led to the deterioration of the ecosystem through pollution caused by industrial sources deliberately through experiments and the manufacture of nuclear weapons, or by mistake such as accidents in nuclear installations due to lack of Take precautions. The effects of environmental pollution by nuclear radiation whether in peacetime or wartime, and its disastrous consequences on both humans and the environment in the short and long term prompted the international community to search for mechanisms to reduce the negative uses of nuclear energy, so it concluded agreements, held conferences and established bodies in order to spare the world another environmental disaster that future generationspay for. Through our intervention, we will try to research these mechanisms and their effectiveness in combating environmental crime resulting from pollution of the environment by nuclear rays, especially with the amazing and accelerating development in the field of nuclear energy, the race towards arms, and the dangers that this energy in particular poses compared to others. In order to address the issue, we decided to adopt a bilateral plan. In the first axis of the study, we deal with the most important dangers that nuclear radiation creates on the natural environment. In the second axis, we deal with the most important international mechanisms that exist to confront environmental crime committed due to the remnants of nuclear radiation. We examine the effectiveness of these mechanisms with a focus on the most important agreements concluded in this regard and even the conferences and establishmentsthat have been held and established by bodies with allocating a partof this study to the role of the ordinary and criminal international judiciary to combat environmental crimes caused by nuclear radiation. We end the intervention with a set of suggestions that we consider necessary to support the existing efforts to preserve the environment and protect it from these risks.

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Rylands, Anthony B., and Katrina Brandon. "Brazilian Amazon – the race is on." Oryx 39, no. 04 (December 7, 2005): 359. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0030605305001213.

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Nader, Karim. "DATING THROUGH THE FILTERS." Social Philosophy and Policy 37, no. 2 (2020): 237–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265052521000133.

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AbstractIn this essay, I explore ethical considerations that might arise from the use of collaborative filtering algorithms on dating apps. Collaborative filtering algorithms can predict the preferences of a target user by looking at the past behavior of similar users. By recommending products through this process, they can influence the news we read, the movies we watch, and more. They are extremely powerful and effective on platforms like Amazon and Google. Recommender systems on dating apps are likely to group people by race, since they exhibit similar patterns of behavior: users on dating platforms seem to segregate themselves based on race, exclude certain races from romantic and sexual consideration (except their own), and generally show a preference for white men and women. As collaborative filtering algorithms learn from these patterns to predict preferences and build recommendations, they can homogenize the behavior of dating app users and exacerbate biased sexual and romantic behavior.

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Yanez, D., I. Barbona, J. López, J. Moyan, R. Quinteros, J. Tonato, S. Bernardi, and P. Marini. "Posibles factores que afectan la tasa de gestación de vacas en la amazonia ecuatoriana." SPERMOVA 2, no. 6 (December 26, 2016): 144–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.18548/aspe/0004.12.

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Naie, Lăcrămioara. "The Enescian Pianistic Notes and Commentaries (1st part)." Review of Artistic Education 17, no. 1 (March 1, 2019): 47–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rae-2019-0005.

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Abstract Moldavian by nature and genius by vocation, maestro George Enescu remained captured in the universal consciousness as an accomplished violinist, composer and as an amazing and inspired musician – pianist which gathered in an admirable synthesis elegance, refinement, impressionist tones, romantic flames, classic – German construction, all these under the aura of a profound Romanian feeling. All the Enescian pianistic artistic creation is under the sign of the stylistic unity, of the maximal concentration of the musical substance that carry all artistic emotions and the accumulations of the modern musical expression. The generous, wide and bidding instrumental register covers the adage of “unity in diversity”.

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SILVERSTEIN, PAUL. "Masquerade politics: race, Islam and the scale of Amazigh activism in southeastern Morocco*." Nations and Nationalism 17, no. 1 (December 22, 2010): 65–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8129.2010.00454.x.

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Isla, Ana. "The Eco-Class-Race Struggles in the Peruvian Amazon Basin: An Ecofeminist Perspective." Capitalism Nature Socialism 20, no. 3 (September 2009): 21–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10455750903215720.

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von Sneidern, Maja-Lisa. ""An Amazingly Good Jackal": Race and Labor in Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities"." South Atlantic Review 66, no. 2 (2001): 64. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3201869.

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Butler, Ryden, Brendan Nyhan, Jacob M. Montgomery, and Michelle Torres. "Revisiting white backlash: Does race affect death penalty opinion?" Research & Politics 5, no. 1 (January 2018): 205316801775125. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2053168017751250.

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Peffley and Hurwitz’s article “Persuasion and resistance: Race and the death penalty in America” is an influential study demonstrating the effects of race on death penalty attitudes. White respondents were found to increase their approval for capital punishment when informed that it disproportionately affects African-Americans. We present results from two studies, including one conducted on a nationally representative sample, that fail to find support for this finding. Our first study, which was conducted on Amazon Mechanical Turk, consists of an exact replication as well as an additional manipulation that strengthens the treatment by adding information about a specific black (versus a white) defendant to the stimulus. However, we fail to elicit the backlash effect found in the original study using either manipulation despite having nearly three times the sample size. These findings are mirrored by replication data from a Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences survey that closely replicates Peffley and Hurwitz’s race framing treatment. The results from these studies suggest that the relationship between racial stimuli and death penalty support has changed since the original study, that racial backlash effects in this policy domain are not as robust as previously assumed, or both.

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Dye, Timothy, Dongmei Li, Margaret Demment, Susan Groth, Diana Fernandez, Ann Dozier, and Jack Chang. "Sociocultural variation in attitudes toward use of genetic information and participation in genetic research by race in the United States: implications for precision medicine." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 23, no. 4 (March 16, 2016): 782–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocv214.

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Abstract Background “Precision medicine” (PM) requires researchers to identify actionable genetic risks and for clinicians to interpret genetic testing results to patients. Whether PM will equally benefit all populations or exacerbate existing disparities is uncertain. Methods We ascertained attitudes toward genetic testing and genetic research by race in the United States using the online Amazon mTurk US workforce (n = 403 White; n = 56 African American (AA)). Generalized linear models were used to test differences in beliefs and preferences by race, adjusting for sociodemographics and prior genetic experience. Results AA were less likely than White to believe that genetic tests should be promoted or made available. Further, AA were less likely to want genetic testing results or to participate in genetic research. Conclusions Important dimensions that underlay PM are not universally accepted by all populations. Without clear attention to concerns, AA communities may not equally benefit from the rapidly-emerging trend in PM-centered research and clinical practice.

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Douglas, Valerie, Benjamin Balas, and Kathryn Gordon. "Facial femininity and perceptions of eating disorders: A reverse-correlation study." PLOS ONE 16, no. 8 (August 6, 2021): e0255766. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255766.

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Eating disorders are prevalent in college students but college students are not accurate in identifying the presence of eating disorders (ED) especially when race is involved. Much has been researched about diagnostic ability in vignette form, but little outside of this. For example, it is not known how facial features, such as perceived femininity, may affect observers’ beliefs about the likelihood of disordered eating depending on race. In the present study, we examined how biases regarding facial appearance and disordered eating may differ depending on the race of face images. Using a technique called reverse correlation, we estimated the image templates associated with perceived likelihood of disordered eating using both White and Black Faces. Specifically, we recruited 28 college students who categorized White and Black faces according to perceived likelihood of an eating disorder diagnosis in the presence of image noise. Subsequently, we asked Amazon Mechanical Turk participants to categorize the resulting race-specific face templates according to perceived ED likelihood and femininity. The templates corresponding to a high likelihood of an ED diagnosis were distinguished from low-likelihood images by this second independent participant sample at above-chance levels. For Black faces, the templates corresponding to a high likelihood of an ED diagnosis were also selected as more feminine than low-likelihood templates at an above-chance level, whereas there was no such effect found for White faces. These results suggest that stereotyped beliefs about both femininity and the likelihood of disordered eating may interact with perceptual processes.

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Medd, Rupert J. M., and Hélène Guyot. "Eyewitness Accounts during the Putumayo Rubber Boom." Journeys 20, no. 2 (December 1, 2019): 58–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/jys.2019.200204.

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Between 1870 and 1915 Peru experienced a rubber-boom, extending into the Putumayo River region in 1893. This huge region of Amazonian forests was controlled by the Peruvian Amazon Company (P. A. Co.). Although Peruvian, they had British company directors and a British-Barbadian workforce. Their methods of extraction generated unimaginable degrees of human and ecological violence. Roger Casement, a British diplomat, was sent on a harrowing mission to investigate these allegations made by travelers. His Amazon Journal takes precedence; however, Peruvians also responded to the situation, reporting to the Geographical Society of Lima. Included are two forgotten yet influential Peruvian explorers: the geographer Manuel Antonio Mesones Muro and the engineer Cárlos Oyague y Calderón. By highlighting some of the early debates that circulated between Europe and Latin America on the natural resources and people of the Amazon forests, the focus is to draw out textual examples of perceptions on race, environment, and early consumer responsibility. Supported by coloniality/modernity theories, it also asks whether this form of travel writing was functioning as a resistance literature to imperialism for the time. Thus, this study investigates alternative readings that might also inform twenty-first-century scholars and activists as they articulate environmentalist and even social and ecological positions.

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ESPELT‐BOMBIN, SILVIA, and MARK HARRIS. "Changing Narratives of Race and Environment in the Nineteenth‐Century and Early‐Twentieth‐Century Brazilian Amazon." Bulletin of Latin American Research 38, no. 2 (June 22, 2018): 150–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/blar.12782.

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Waraksa, Joanna. "Doświadczenie użytkownika w erze streamingu — analiza komparatystyczna serwisów VoD obecnych na polskim rynku." Dziennikarstwo i Media 13 (January 14, 2021): 213–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/2082-8322.13.15.

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For the last couple of years streaming services have been taking part in a race, in which the user’s atten-tion and subscription are the prizes. In today’s world entertainment offers are being thrown at users from all sides. They do not have the time needed to check them all. Competition in this segment is enormous. It is not about providing a wide variety of movies, TV series or programmes anymore. To gain viewers’ loyalty, you need to ensure the best possible experience of using a product. The aim of this article is therefore to analyze and compare the elements of UX used in video players of platforms such as Netflix, HBO GO, Amazon Prime Video, and Player.

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Meziane, Mohamad Amer. "Reflections on Race and Ethnicity in North Africa Towards a Conceptual Critique of the Arab–Berber Divide." Review of Middle East Studies 54, no. 2 (December 2020): 269–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rms.2021.24.

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AbstractThis essay argues that the usages of the divide between Berbers and Arabs by the Algerian government and Berber activists alike should be analyzed in light of the transformation of the Imazighen into a cultural minority by the nation-state. The nation-state's definition of the majority as Arab, as well as the very concept of a minority, has shaped both the status and the grammar of the Arab-Berber divide in ways that are irreducible to how this binary functioned under French colonialism. In order to understand the distinct modes by which these categories function in Algeria today, one needs to analyze how the language of the nation-state determines their grammar, namely how they are deployed within this political context. Hence, by focusing primarily on French colonial representations of race such as the Kabyle Myth and by asserting simplified colonial continuities, the literature fails to make sense of the political centrality of the nation-state in the construction of the Amazigh question.

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de Souza, Rodrigo Antônio, and Paulo De Marco. "The Red Queen race in Brazilian Amazon deforestation: the necessity of a sustainable economy to zero deforestation." Natureza & Conservação 13, no. 2 (July 2015): 190–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ncon.2015.11.007.

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Wiley, James W. "Status and conservation of parrots and parakeets in the Greater Antilles, Bahama Islands, and Cayman Islands." Bird Conservation International 1, no. 3 (September 1991): 187–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959270900000599.

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SummaryIn the 1490S a minimum of 28 species of psittacines occurred in the West Indies. Today, only 43% (12) of the species survive. All macaws and most parakeet species have been lost. Although the surviving parrot fauna of the Greater Antilles, Cayman Islands, and Bahama Islands has fared somewhat better than that of the Lesser Antilles, every species has undergone extensive reductions of populations and all but two have undergone extensive reductions in range, mostly as a result of habitat loss, but also from persecution as agricultural pests, conflicts with exotic species, harvesting for pets, and natural disasters. The Cayman Brae Parrot Amazona leucocephala hesterna, with its tiny population (lessthan 150 individuals in the wild) and range, and the Puerto Rican Parrot A. vittata, with 22-23 birds in the wild and 56 individuals in captivity, must be considered on the of extinction and in need of (in the tatter's case, continuing) aggressive programmes of research and management. Other populations declining in numbers and range include the Yellow-billed Amazona collaria, and Black-billed A. agilis Parrots of Jamaica, Hispaniolan Parakeet Aratinga chloroptera, Hispaniolan Parrot Amazona ventralis, Cuban Parrot A. leucocephala leucocephala and, most seriously, Cuban Parakeet Aratinga euops. The population of the Grand Cayman Parrot (Amazona leucocephala caymanensis), although numbering only about 1,000 birds, appears stable and the current conservation programme gives hope for the survival of the race. An active conservation and public education programme has begun for the Bahama Parrot A. l. bahamensis, which still occurs in good numbers on Great Inagua Island, but is threatened on Abaco Island. Recommendations for conservation of parrots and parakeets in the region include (1) instituting term programmes of research to determine distribution, status, and ecology of each species; (2) developing conservation programmes through education and management approaches that are culturally, politically, and economically sensitive to the region; and providing and protecting habitat within suitably sized reserves.

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Collar, N. J., and D. C. Wege. "The distribution and conservation status of the Bearded Tachuri Polystictus pectoralis." Bird Conservation International 5, no. 2-3 (September 1995): 367–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959270900001106.

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SummaryThe Bearded Tachuri Polystictus pectoralis occupies lowland grasslands with scrubby vegetation, generally near water, in the Andean grasslands of Colombia at two sites (threatened race bogotensis), savannas in eastern Colombia and the lowland and tepui grasslands of mainly southern Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana and northern Brazil (race brevipennis), reappearing south of the Amazon in central-southern Brazil, eastern Bolivia (no recent records), Paraguay, Uruguay and northern and central-eastern Argentina (nominate pectoralis). It is an austral summer visitor (October/November to February/April) to central-east Argentina, nesting (commonly in thistles) around December, clutch-size three. It feeds on insects by perch-gleaning, sallying, hover-gleaning and still-hunting. It is unobtrusive and must be commonly overlooked, and in some localities may be moderately well represented. Overall, however, it is scarce and appears to be very patchy in occurrence; grassland habitats within its range have been converted wholesale to farming. New quantitative criteria support earlier qualitative judgement that the species is probably not (yet) threatened, but that it merits near-threatened status. Suggestions that one or all of its three subspecies may be good species are premature; it is not even clear how distinct these forms are as subspecies.

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