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    Tourist Guides Versus the Technology Threat
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2025) Nazli, M.
    The study aims to understand the technology threat to the jobs of tourist guides and the way they perceive technology’s impact. An email interview method is preferred while collecting the data from 25 countries. The findings reveal that although many guides mentioned the essentiality of human touch in guidance, they are aware of the influence of AI, the metaverse and smart technologies. Loss of jobs is very much possible, according to the vast majority of guides. They believe that without training and adapting themselves to novel technologies like the metaverse, they will not attract new generations and guides may lose jobs due to a lack of applying new technology to their own ways of doing business. The study enlightens the tour guidance field and the metaverse perceptions of guides influencing jobs. © 2025 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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    Exploring Women's Visceral Engagement With Electric Appliances in Turkish Kitchens
    (Springernature, 2025) Emgin, Bahar; Karaosmanoğlu, Defne; Ata, Leyla Bektaş; Karaosmanoglu, Defne; Ata, Leyla Bektas; Emgin, Bahar
    This paper investigates the narratives and experiences of women regarding cooking with small electric appliances. It intends to offer a novel perspective on gender and technology studies by foregrounding the visceral dimensions of these encounters. Drawing from a larger project on the historical representations and lived experiences of domestic technologies in Turkey, it highlights how the embodied dimensions of cooking shape the ways women perceive, adapt, and integrate technology into their daily lives. This study is based on interviews with twenty-seven women across five cities in Turkey conducted between 2022 and 2024. While small electric appliances are often marketed for convenience and efficiency, we argue that focusing solely on their instrumental benefits neglects the complex and visceral ways women engage with technology. A visceral approach remains an undervalued lens for understanding these interactions, particularly as women's embodied knowledge and relationships to kitchen appliances challenge scholarship that prioritizes progress and efficiency. As active agents, many women resist these technologies, viewing them as misaligned with the embodied knowledge and practices integral to cooking. By reevaluating the relationship between food, gender, and technology, we propose that such disengagement challenges the positivist reliance on science and technology, emphasizing the importance of embodied knowledge and everyday practices in shaping women's interactions with technology.
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    A Review on New Cobalt-Free Cathode Materials for Reversible Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
    (Chulalongkorn Univ, Metallurgy & Materials Science Research Inst, 2023) Akkurt, Sedat; Sındırac, Can; Özmen Egesoy, Tuğce; Ergen, Emre
    The exponential growth in the requirement of fuel cells and batteries leads to increased demand for cobalt due to its common use in high-performance Li-ion batteries and high-temperature fuel cells/electrolyzers. This sharp increment in demand raises concern about the availability of limited reserves of cobalt which can impact the price of cobalt. Moreover, the geographic limitations of cobalt resources may endanger the whole supply chain. In addition to all those, huge moral issues of cobalt mining are also another problem. Hence, leading battery, fuel cells and electrolyzer manufacturers are looking for sustainable alternatives to reduce cobalt dependency. A more specific limitation is shown in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) cathode materials that contain cobalt. Incompatibilities have already been observed between the cathode materials containing cobalt and the electrolytes in terms of the thermal expansion coefficient mismatch during the transition of the operating temperature from high to low. An advantage of low operating temperatures is the reduction of material costs compared to high temperature. Increasing the electrochemical performance of the cell and eliminating thermal expansion coefficient difference problems are in concert aimed at the development of cobalt-free cathode materials. Therefore, cobalt-free cathode materials are vital for the sustainability of SOFCs and green transition of the energy sector since they can be used as cathode and anode material in symmetrical SOFCs which is also known as reversible SOFC (RSOFC). In this review, we comprehensively summarize the recent advances of cobalt-free perovskite cathode materials for intermediate temperature RSOFCs.