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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

Cadastral plots dataset: Availability of passive climatization strategies in Barcelona's residential buildings. [PDF]

Data Brief
Moccia A, Alonso-Montolío C, Coch H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Discursive Power, Civilian Agency, Wartime Duress, and Resilience: Letters to the Authorities in the Blockade of Leningrad

The Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract How did World War II affect the nature and resilience of Soviet institutions and authority, especially in the extreme case of the Blockade of Leningrad? During the Blockade, Leningraders acted with great agency by engaging in the shadow trade of food and shadow talk for information and community in order to survive.
Jeffrey K. Hass, Nikita A. Lomagin
wiley   +1 more source

Urban color in public design: a review of spatial aesthetics and behavioral impact in Chinese and South Korean cities using structural equation modelling approaches. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Yu H, Liu R, Kumar R, Singh S, Kumar R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Political Naturalisation: Conscripting Transit Citizens in the United Arab Emirates

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since its formation, the United Arab Emirates has sought to construct a cohesive sense of national identity among its citizens, centred on a system of material and legal privileges granted exclusively to Emirati nationals. A pillar of its nation‐building project was the strict exclusion of foreigners from citizenship and the upholding of a ...
Mira Al Hussein
wiley   +1 more source

'Never let your enemy see you broken': cultural trauma script elements in the Republic of Georgia - an international consortium study. [PDF]

Eur J Psychotraumatol
Papava A, Javakhishvili JD, Makhashvili N, Mamuchashvili K, Eberle DJ, Bachem R, Mutuyimana C, Maercker A.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From Expansion to Erosion: The Global Trajectory of Judicial Independence, 1960–2018

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Judicial independence expanded globally throughout the twentieth century, but this trajectory has recently come under pressure. In recent years, governments around the world have increasingly challenged judicial autonomy. This study unpacks this global reversal by analyzing data from 156 states between 1960 and 2018.
Nir Rotem
wiley   +1 more source

An AI-driven multi-objective framework for optimizing window dimensions considering energy demand and thermal comfort. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Nasab SMRA, Rabiei H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Unmarked Emotional States and the Affective Anchoring of Continuity

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Narratives around emotions often foreground remarkable episodes that interrupt situations, producing a “rollercoaster” image of emotional life that leaves its stability underdescribed. To analyze the emotional dimension of social continuity, this article theorizes unmarked emotional states (UES): culturally default, interactionally unobtrusive
Lorenzo Sabetta
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable Design Reuse: Integrating Biomimicry and Parametric Thinking in Architectural Education. [PDF]

Biomimetics (Basel)
Semlali A, Tamzini S, Cazacova L.
europepmc   +1 more source