The processes leading to a glacier instability depend on the thermal properties of the contact between the glacier and its bedrock.Assessing the stability of temperate glacier (i.e.the glacier can slide on its bedrock) remains problematic.In order to scrutinize in more detail the processes governing such "sliding" instabilities, a numerical model A
Working aboard an international cruise ship that travels to Europe is an exciting adventure with the many wonderful ports of call to visit, exquisite dining experiences, and a multitude of crew members who come from different countries.Because they have to serve foreign guests, crewmembers speak English frequently.This paper is an autoethnographic
BackgroundAlthough sex toys representing human body parts are widely accepted and normalized, human-like full-body sex dolls and sex robots have elicited highly controversial debates.ObjectiveThis systematic scoping review of the academic literature on sex dolls and sex robots, the first of its kind, aimed to examine the extent and type of existing
The essay seeks to disentangle the meaning or meanings of the catch word “cosmopolitanism”.To contribute to its clarification, the essay distinguishes between three main interpretations: empirical, normative, and practical or interactive.In the first reading, the term coincides basically with “globalization” where the la