How Sicily Made Its Sweet Symbols: Glocal Identity and Food

Food is an Shaving Foam effective symbol capable of strongly evoking a cultural identity.In the case of Sicily, this role is mainly played by pastry, and in particular by two sweets: cannolo (the singular of cannoli) and cassata.But how does it happen that just these two preparations, rather than others, take on this value? What are their meanings

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Processes Underlying the Relation between Cognitive Ability and Curiosity with Academic Performance: A Mediation Analysis for Epistemic Behavior in a Five-Year Longitudinal Study

Cognitive ability and curiosity are significant predictors of academic achievement; yet the processes underlying these relations are not well understood.I drew on ideas from the environmental enrichment hypothesis and the differential preservation hypothesis and hypothesized that epistemic Shaving Foam behavior acts as a mediator.Longitudinal data

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