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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
wiley   +1 more source

Polygenic Risk for Pre‐Eclampsia and the Long‐Term Risk of Incident Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease: A Population‐Based Cohort Study

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To investigate whether genetic predisposition to pre‐eclampsia (PE), measured by a polygenic risk score (PRS), is associated with incident hypertension and cardiovascular disease (CVD) after delivery in Asian women. Design Prospective population‐based cohort study.
Eun‐Saem Choi, Sang‐Hyuk Jung, Young Mi Jung, Chan‐Wook Park, Joong Shin Park, Jong Kwan Jun, Jaeyoung Kim, Beomsu Kim, Chamlee Cho, Injeong Shim, Dokyoon Kim, Hong‐Hee Won, Seung Mi Lee   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Performance Evaluation Under the Frontier Analysis Framework: A Farm‐Level Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Quantifying and improving the environmental performance (EP) of agriculture has become an urgent research and policy priority. Over the past three decades, frontier‐based analytical frameworks have been widely applied to evaluate farm‐level EP.
Fissha Asmare, Bethan Thompson, Tarek Soliman, Thomas Donovan, Klaus Glenk, Andrew Barnes   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Axiomatic Design Methodology for Manufacturing Process Selection Based on Multi-User Requirements Mapping

, 2022
Edward Abela, Pierre Vella, Philip Farrugia, Glenn Cassar, Maria Gauci, Emanuel Balzan   +5 more
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Rendezvous in Space: Tech Diplomacy and the Commercial Space Era—A Study of Rendezvous and Docking Technologies and Space Exploration Co‐Operation Since the Cold War

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On‐orbit rendezvous and docking constitute one of the most technically challenging activities in the history of space activities. As space endeavours mature to crewed missions, space rendezous and docking technologies (RDT) emerge as an area of technological innovation critical to advances in future crewed space exploration.
Nikita Chiu, Markus Kornprobst
wiley   +1 more source

South Africa: The Ambiguities of a Middle Power

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT South Africa represents an interesting species of a middle power. This derives from its inherited economic muscle as Africa's powerhouse and the liberation struggle against apartheid, both of which have shaped its democratic transition. The traditions of liberation and democracy, in turn, have profoundly influenced how South Africa has ...
Garth L. le Pere
wiley   +1 more source

Axiomatic design and solution variants applied to a modular 3D printing head based in material extrusion

, 2019
I Porpíglio, Régis Kovacs Scalice, Zilda de Castro Silveira   +2 more
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When the Former CEO Acts as Board Chair: Does This Matter to Debt Policy and Risk of Default?

Abacus, EarlyView.
This paper scrutinizes the interconnections between debt capital raising, firm risk of default, and the presence of a former CEO who now serves as a board chairperson, referred to as the Chair‐Former‐CEO (CFC). Employing a sample of the largest non‐financial firms within the US S&P 100 from 2002 to 2018, our results reveal that, when compared to their ...
Vu Quang Trinh, Aly Salama, Basil Al‐Najjar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking the contract‐failure theory

American Business Law Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The contract‐failure theory posits that the nonprofit form can be an indicator of high product quality because the nondistribution constraint reduces the nonprofit manager's financial benefits from cheating. This would give nonprofits an advantage over for‐profit firms when consumers cannot determine product quality and thus explains ...
Yumiao Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Information Model for Pharmaceutical Smart Factory Equipment Design

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Pharmaceutical production typically focuses on individual drug types for each production line, which limits flexibility. However, the emergence of Industry 4.0 technologies presents new opportunities for more adaptable and customized manufacturing ...
Roland Wölfle, Irina Saur-Amaral, Leonor Teixeira   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source