Gender Bias in Academic Writing: Challenges and Equity Strategies

This review synthesizes existing research on the intricate relationship between gender and academic writing, exploring gendered writing styles, perceptions of writing quality, representation in academic publishing, intersectionality with other social identities, and interventions to promote gender equity.Findings reveal nuanced variations in writin

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Past Futures of Hydroelectricity

The climate crisis obliges us to rethink landscape protection due to the need for renewable energy.Images and narratives of historic documentary films on the most important Swiss dam projects demonstrate that hydropower has always been a controversial endeavor in the Alpine republic.The films deal, in pro- or retrospect, with measures and discourse

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Spatial confidentiality and GIS: re-engineering mortality locations from published maps about Hurricane Katrina

Abstract Background Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can provide valuable insight into patterns of human activity.Online spatial display applications, such as Google Earth, can democratise this information by disseminating it to the general public.Although this is a generally positive advance for society, there is a legitimate concern involving

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