Rethinking International Humanitarian Law: the race to asymmetry in asymmetric warfare [PDF]
openWhat are asymmetric wars? How do asymmetric conflicts and the challenge of non-reciprocity increase the ferocity of clashes in war? If the weaker power resorts to tactics forbidden by the laws of war, its success may depend on the abstention of the ...
DE CRISTOFARO, MARIA CHIARA
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‘Do You Realise People Are Dying There?!’: Ukrainian Adolescents Reflecting on Death During Wartime
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores how Ukrainian refugee adolescents in Romania think and speak about death and loss amid war and displacement. While contemporary Western societies display an unprecedented visibility of death, they continue to exclude children from genuine conversations about mortality, maintaining a protective silence.
Adriana Teodorescu, Alina Bărbuță
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Emergency Care Needs in an Asymmetric Conflict: A Facility-Based Cohort Study From Israel on October 7, 2023. [PDF]
World J SurgNerlander MP +4 more
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The depth and breadth of capitalism at the Cape
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Limited liability company legislation was introduced to the Cape Colony in 1861. An amendment in 1892 led to wider adoption, expanding and diversifying the capital market. Using novel data from the Cape Joint Stock Archive between 1892 and 1902, this paper examines who invested, where capital flowed, and how these patterns shaped firm outcomes
Edward Kerby, Lloyd Melusi Maphosa
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Trauma stabilization points in armed conflict: operational evolution and strategic reflections from mosul to Gaza. [PDF]
Eur J Trauma Emerg SurgMarta C +9 more
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Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing all wealth, but for a single slave
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Slave owners in Late Antiquity viewed the possession of at least one slave to be a necessity and a defining mark that distinguished the dignified social classes from the poor. Ascetics who shared this perspective faced a choice when renouncing all worldly possessions in pursuit of spiritual perfection, one not merely about luxury, but also about status
E.T. Dailey, Justin Pigott
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Ricin as a Biothreat Agent: From Molecular Mechanisms to Clinical Toxicology, Forensic Aspects, and Risk Mitigation. [PDF]
Biomed Res IntPohanka M.
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Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the daily experiences of Jua Kali women entrepreneurs in Western Kenya, unpacking how gendered power relations are enacted within informal marketplaces and how women entrepreneurs mobilize agency within these structurally and institutionally constrained contexts.
Tabitha Sindani +3 more
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Computational and Statistical Physics Approaches for Complex Systems and Social Phenomena. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Diep HT, Kaufman M, Kaufman S.
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The Short and the Long of It: Stock‐Flow Matching in the US Housing Market
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT From 2006 until 2020, the probability of selling a house in the U.S. declined sharply after listing for 2 weeks. Moreover, sales within the first 2 weeks of listing (“quick sales”) and sales happening afterward (“slow sales”) behaved differently over the housing cycle.
Eric Smith, Zoe Xie, Lei Fang
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