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Revisiting Enlightenment Universalism: 18th-Century Lessons on Nonliteral Translations and Transcultural Storytelling

open access: yesDiciottesimo Secolo
A large number of transcultural fictions appeared in the 18th century, providing us with an important entry into discussing the task of comparative literature today.
Wen Jin
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Physically consistent mesoscale model evaluation in complex terrain

open access: yesQuarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
This study introduces a novel approach for evaluating mesoscale atmospheric models in complex terrain by selecting physically consistent grid points and applying height‐based corrections. The method corrects for sensor height and terrain elevation differences between model and observations using a time‐varying lapse rate.
Gaspard Simonet   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Opium trade and use during the Late Bronze Age: Organic residue analysis of ceramic vessels from the burials of Tel Yehud, Israel

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
Vanessa Linares   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disability in the 18th Century

open access: yesEnnen ja Nyt: Historian Tietosanomat, 2003
Helen Deutsch & Felicity Nussbaum (eds): Defects: Engendering the Modern Body. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2000. xi + 332 pp.
Daniel Blackie
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Тип резонёра в русской комедии XVIII века | Rezonieriaus tipas XVIII amžiaus rusų komedijoje | The type of the reasoner in the 18th century Russian comedy [PDF]

open access: yesLiteratūra (Vilnius), 2013
The article deals with the type of the stage reasoner in the 18th century Russian literature. It is a character common for educational comedies in the epoch of the Enlightenment.
Irina Kulikova
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The human capital of Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe in European perspective [PDF]

open access: yes
We trace the development of numeracy in Poland and Russia from the early 17th century onwards, and numeracy in Belarus, Ukraine, and Lithuania from the 18th century onwards. The fact that western Poland was doing relatively well during the 16th and early
Jörg Baten, Mikolaj Szoltysek
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UAVs unveil the role of small scale vegetation structure on wader nest survival

open access: yesRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
In this study, we combine high‐resolution vegetation structural metrics derived from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery with on‐field wader nest survival monitoring. We show that the immediate vegetation height and heterogeneity within a 2‐meter buffer surrounding the clutch of the recorded ground‐nesting wader species positively influenced its ...
Miguel Silva‐Monteiro   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Saved by their music. Gypsies in the 18th century Europe

open access: yesTheatrum Historiae, 2009
The paper dedicated to the situation of the so called Gypsy people in the 18th century Europe concentrates on the relations between Gypsy and non Gypsy communities by presenting various, but predominantly negative, approaches towards these people.
Anna G. Piotrowska
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Great Divergence of the 18th Century?

open access: yesCliodynamics, 2018
The article suggests that the Great Divergence of the 19th century between “the West” and “the East” was preceded by the Great Divergence in the 18th century between the Global North and the Global South.
Andrey V. Korotayev   +2 more
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