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Can enhanced street lighting improve public safety at scale?

Criminology &Public Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Street crimes are thought to be influenced by changes in ambient lighting; yet, most studies have focused on small‐scale interventions in limited areas. It remains unclear whether enhanced lighting can improve safety on a larger, jurisdiction‐wide scale.
John M. MacDonald, Aaron Chalfin, Maya Moritz, Brian Wade, Alyssa K. Mendlein, Anthony A. Braga, Eugenia South   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improvement in the English Translations of Albrecht von Haller's Usong (1771)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The political novel Usong (1771), written by the Swiss physiologist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), is set in the fifteenth century and tells the story of a Mongolian prince who becomes the Emperor of Persia and redesigns the government of his empire to promote the happiness of his subjects.
Laura Tarkka
wiley   +1 more source

A genomic and historical synthesis of plague in 18th century Eurasia. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020
Guellil M, Kersten O, Namouchi A, Luciani S, Marota I, Arcini CA, Iregren E, Lindemann RA, Warfvinge G, Bakanidze L, Bitadze L, Rubini M, Zaio P, Zaio M, Neri D, Stenseth NC, Bramanti B.   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Characteristics of Dietary Fatty Acids Isolated from Historic Dental Calculus of the 17th- and 18th-Century Inhabitants of the Subcarpathian Region (Poland). [PDF]

Molecules, 2021
Rogóż J, Podbielska M, Szpyrka E, Wnuk M.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Construction of a Bestseller: The Case of Thomas Nettleton's Some Thoughts Concerning Virtue and Happiness (1729)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

Differential diagnosis of a calcified cyst found in an 18th century female burial site at St. Nicholas Church cemetery (Libkovice, Czechia). [PDF]

PLoS One, 2021
Kwiatkowska B, Bisiecka A, Pawelec Ł, Witek A, Witan J, Nowakowski D, Konczewski P, Biel R, Król K, Martewicz K, Lissek P, Vařeka P, Lipowicz A.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Frame simulations in 18th century Azulejos

, 2020
Ana Raquel Machado, Rosário Salema de Carvalho   +1 more
openalex   +2 more sources

Love, Class‐Crossing Courtship, and the Reading of English Novels in Late Eighteenth‐Century Sweden

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how novel reading influenced the courtship practices of Pehr Stenberg, a peasant who became a clergyman. Stenberg wrote a detailed account of his life in which his courtships of high‐born women are described in detail. These courtships took place during a transformative time when the ideal that marriage should be based on
Ina Lindblom
wiley   +1 more source

A potion for prolonged life? Germes' recipe, a secret handwritten note from an 18th-century Swedish physician. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed
Schultz F, Niedenthal T, Nicolai-Lorenz I, Baez K, Iker T, Garbe LA.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source