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Humans are not unique: difficult birth is common in placental mammals

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human childbirth is widely presumed to be uniquely difficult and dangerous compared to birth in other mammals. Tight fetopelvic proportions can result in obstructed labour and contribute to high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality. Ideas summarised under the ‘obstetrical dilemma’ have contributed to this assumption by explaining difficult
Nicole D. S. Grunstra
wiley   +1 more source

Driving Change Together: How Innovative Communication Powers Electrification in the Automotive Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how organizations in the automotive sector respond to the internal communication challenges posed by the transition to electric vehicle production. Unlike typical organizational change, electrification is driven not only by market forces but also by sociopolitical and regulatory pressures to reduce carbon emissions and ...
Tobias Hein   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

New Research Grant: The World in the Viking Age: A Centre of Excellence at Uppsala University

open access: yesCurrent Swedish Archaeology
Neil Price   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Determining the Nutritional Potential of Ancient Wheat Species: A Closer Look at Starch and Protein Digestibility, and Phenolic Acid Content

open access: yesCereal Chemistry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and Objectives The recent trend towards healthy food choices and sustainable agriculture has revived interest in underutilized wheat species such as emmer, einkorn, and spelt. Given these developments, the objective of the study was to compare the differences in chemical composition and digestibility characteristics among ...
Sathsara Deyalage   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

New Research Project: Uppåkra - the Hall on the Height. Investigating a Long-term Iron Age Residence

open access: yesCurrent Swedish Archaeology
Torbjörn Ahlström   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Population Genomics Insights into Pharmacogenomic Differentiation Between East Asians and Europeans

open access: yesClinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
Genetic variation contributes substantially to interindividual and interpopulation differences in drug response, yet most pharmacogenomic studies remain biased toward European populations. Here, we systematically assessed pharmacogenomic variation across East Asians (EAS) and Europeans (EUR) using public genomic datasets and investigated the potential ...
Sihan Chen, Hongpu Chen, Shuhua Xu
wiley   +1 more source

Field surveys for ancient woodlands: Issues and Approaches

open access: yes, 2009
Field surveys of ancient woodlands and potential ancient woodlands can be undertaken for a variety of purposes, including: to help identify an Ancient Woodland, investigation into existing designated ancient woodlands, gathering information for site ...
Handley, Christine   +4 more
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Antiochos of Ascalon (The Encyclopedia of Ancient History)

open access: yes
Antiochos of Ascalon was a philosopher who belonged to the school founded by Plato, the Academy, and lived in the first century BCE. He is an extremely important thinker in the history of ancient Platonism because he was a pupil of Philon of Larissa, who
VERDE F.
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From Custom to Court: The Evolution of Mediation in European Legal Systems

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces how European mediation has repeatedly rebalanced three variables—(1) the source of mediator authority, (2) the degree of institutionalization, and (3) the operative meaning of voluntariness—from antiquity to the present. Using three periods—Proto‐Mediation (c. 500 BCE–c. 1750), Classical Mediation (c.
Viktoriia Hamaiunova
wiley   +1 more source

Athenian democracy: part 1 [Introduction to ancient Greek history]

open access: yes, 2016
Educação Superior::Ciências Humanas::HistóriaPresents a class of professor Donald Kagan, which introduces the history of ancient Greece. Athens organized the Delian League, led by Cimon.
Kagan, Donald
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