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Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract The critical and popular appeal of Sigrid Nunez's The Friend (2018), which centers on the bond between an unnamed female writer and a Great Dane, Apollo, suggests that readers are drawn to thoughtful explorations of human–animal encounters in literature.
Martyna Bryla
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The introduction of legalized abortion in the early 1970s led to dramatic changes in fertility behavior. Some research has suggested as well that there were important impacts on cohort outcomes, but this literature has been limited and controversial.
Phillip B. Levine +3 more
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Foreign Aid and Teenage Childbearing
Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract Teenage childbearing has serious consequences for young mothers, their children, and society. This study estimates the impact of foreign aid projects on teenage fertility in Malawi. We combine georeferenced data on aid projects from 1998 to 2016 with individual‐level fertility data.
Heather Congdon Fors +3 more
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Rates of induced abortion in Denmark according to age, previous births and previous abortions [PDF]
Background: Whereas the effects of various socio-demographic determinants on a woman’s risk of having an abortion are relatively well-documented, less attention has been given to the effect of previous abortions and births. Objective: To study the effect
Lisbeth B. Knudsen +3 more
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Plant Biology, EarlyView.Galeandra blanchetii exhibits a dual‐attraction strategy: male euglossine bees are lured by floral scents as a resource, while both sexes are deceived by non‐existent nectar. Pollination only occurs when bees enter the spur to search for nectar, highlighting an evolutionary transition towards the perfume flower syndrome in Catasetinae.
D. M. Camara +7 more
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Adolescent Pregnancy and Perinatal Outcomes: A Hospital‐Based Cross‐Sectional Study
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Adolescent pregnancy is linked to adverse perinatal outcomes, yet distinctions between early (10–14 years) and late (15–19 years) adolescence and the impact of prenatal care adequacy remain unclear. We compared perinatal outcomes across maternal‐age groups and explored the contribution of prenatal‐care inadequacy to the association ...
Ana Clara Pereira Simplício +8 more
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Women's commission on abortion & forced sterilization
, 2017 A flier publicizing and seeking women who have had trouble obtaining an abortion to testify at the Women's Commission on Abortion and Forced Sterilization at St. Mark's Church on Saturday May 6, 1972.
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The Role of Public Administrators in Building a Robust Liberal Democracy
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT After decades of expansion, liberal democracy is threatened by autocratic populists. These actors exploit widening gaps between leaders and citizens, as well as growing political polarization in the population, to consolidate executive power by undermining courts, sidelining elected assemblies, discrediting public administrators, and ...
Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing
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Induced abortion potential among Indian women [PDF]
Information on abortion is limited and inaccurate especially in the developing world, which has led to several speculations on the prevalence of abortion in this region. A rise in prevalence of abortion is mostly accounted for in terms of increase in the
S. Irudaya Rajan +2 more
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Seventeenth‐century virtuosi often figured themselves as epistemic weeders, grubbing up rank thickets of accumulated error. In this article, I argue that these metaphors were unnerved by the shifting status of weeds—ostensibly unwanted plants from the margins of cultivated space, unploughed land or the disturbed soils between growing crops—in ...
Francis Taylor
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