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The effect of military load carriage on ground reaction forces [PDF]
, 2007 Load carriage is an inevitable part of military life both during training and operations. Loads carried are frequently as high as 60% bodyweight, and this increases injury risk. In the military, load is carried in a backpack (also referred to as a Bergen)
Haslam, Roger +5 more
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Enlightened False Consciousness: Why Climate Consciousness Is Not Followed by Action
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article discusses enlightened false consciousness by focusing on the denial of the climate crisis. It approaches this idea by first emphasizing the role of emotions in connection with actions, arguing that a classical rationalist perspective falls short of grasping this. The article is divided into four parts.
Bülent Diken, Carsten Bagge Laustsen
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the lead‐up to their asylum interviews, unaccompanied minors often struggle to disclose the highly sensitive and personal narratives of their migration journeys to their guardians. Instead, they may resort to “thin stories”: generic, rehearsed stories of suffering, which risk being qualified by the authorities as “inauthentic” or even ...
Lotte Remue
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Travel Medicine and Infectious DiseaseIntroduction: Rabies is a fatal zoonotic disease; however, no comprehensive studies have been conducted on rabies prevention among Japanese travelers with animal exposure providing detailed information on pre-travel consultation, pre-exposure prophylaxis
Takehiro Hashimoto +6 more
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the embodied and institutional forms of marginalization experienced by Mexican deportees in Tijuana. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in clinics and social service organizations, it explores how deportees are corporeally stigmatized, denied legal recognition, and pathologized as addicts in need of coercive ...
Carlos Martinez
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Backpacking with a Prayer: Tradition and Modernity
, 2016 This study focuses on the phenomenon of Israeli backpacking as a function of traditional, observant, and secular population segments. We explored whether and to what degree backpacking features are related to the affinity of backpackers with the Jewish ...
Davidovitch, Nitza
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Comparative Studies Are Needed to Contextualize Stranding in Hydropeaking River Systems
Fisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
Raegan Davis +2 more
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Sedimentology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tsunami deposits serve as geological records of past events and are essential for understanding the occurrence and dynamics of tsunamis. However, conventional research has largely focused on sandy and boulder deposits, leaving gravel‐dominated tsunami deposits comparatively underexplored; furthermore, their characteristics and formation ...
Hidetoshi Masuda +5 more
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Backpacking in Ecuador : Identity, Travel style and motivation
, 2009 The thesis discusses the backpacking culture in Ecuador. It proposes a clarification of the issue and discusses the problem from two perspectives. Questions are raised about the backpacking identity, the backpacking travel style and how they use given ...
Bernstein, Juliane
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Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the commemorative practices of two feminist collectives engaging in anti‐feminicide collages in the cities of Paris and Montreuil. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2023 and 2025, it examines how these activist interventions, as temporary urban memorials, intersect memory‐work and care‐work in urban space ...
Morgane Rudaz
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