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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley   +1 more source

Eating for performance: an evaluation of food consumption patterns and adherence to dietary guidelines in elite wheelchair basketball players. [PDF]

PeerJ
Norte A, Miana M, Romero-García D, Sospedra I, Ausó E, Cifuentes A, Perpiñá-Martínez S, Aprea-Moreno S, Leardy Palencia P, Delgado Ortiz S, Martínez-Sanz JM, Buceta Toro MI.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Consideration Without Economic Duress: Reframing the Analysis of Contractual Modifications

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Prevailing approaches to the contractual enforceability of modifications revise or dispense with the requirement of consideration and invoke economic duress to rule out unfair, inequitable, or bad faith modifications. Enforceability turns effectively on the absence of economic duress. But economic duress is a doctrine of avoidance.
Peter Benson
wiley   +1 more source

Stroboscopic visual training in basketball: a narrative review integrating cross-sport evidence and a hypothetical framework based on the information processing model. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Kang H, Cao X.
europepmc   +1 more source

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Does Test Duration Matter? Comparing 1-s and 5-s Isometric Mid-Thigh Pull Protocols for Performance Diagnostics in Basketball Players. [PDF]

Eur J Sport Sci
Xu S, Yu H, Huang T, Wang C, Yi L, Yan B, Cheng S, Wang X, Wang Y, Girard O.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Graduated Involution Under Compressed Modernity: Differences in the Summer Holidays as a Phase in the Public Life‐Course in Shanghai, China

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper develops the concept of graduated involution to explain how summer holidays have been reconstituted from leisure time into an educational arena for Chinese families under conditions of compressed modernity. Based on qualitative data from 32 households in Shanghai, including interviews and child self‐recordings, we analyze how ...
Leiping Bao, Rachel Murphy
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of exercise type and total physical activity on high-altitude acclimatization among college students. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Xi M, Tian C, Ou Y, Lu R, Wang C, Li H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Effect of the microbiome on pathogen susceptibility across four Drosophilidae species

Insect Science, EarlyView.
Four Drosophilidae species were used to investigate how variation in the host microbiome influences susceptibility to infection. Microbial composition and abundance differed among species and treatments. The effects of microbiome manipulation on host survival were both species‐ and pathogen‐specific.
Hongbo Sun, Ben Longdon, Ben Raymond
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of physical and physiological training demands in women's basketball. [PDF]

PLoS One
Pons-Gomila P, Castellano J, Calleja-González J, Espasa-Labrador J, Cabarkapa D, García F.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source