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Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
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Becoming monstrous: Beauty norms, body image, and discursive limits on compassion in The Substance

Nutrition &Dietetics, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim This study analyses the Hollywood body horror film The Substance to explore how Western beauty culture regulates emotions and bodies. It aims to explore compassion within dominant body image discourses and considers how this impacts dietetic care. Methods Using Foucauldian discourse analysis informed by affect theory, the film was analysed
Phillip Joy
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Shedding of Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from adult and pediatric bathers in marine waters

BMC Microbiology, 2011
Background Staphylococcus aureus including methicillin resistant S. aureus, MRSA, are human colonizing bacteria that commonly cause opportunistic infections primarily involving the skin in otherwise healthy individuals.
Sinigalliano Christopher D, Kish Jonathan, Elmir Samir M, Shibata Tomoyuki, Garza Anna C, Plano Lisa RW, Gidley Maribeth L, Miller Gary, Withum Kelly, Fleming Lora E, Solo-Gabriele Helena M   +10 more
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Managing the Threat of Subsidized Predators for a Threatened Shorebird

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Subsidized predators—native predators that have become more common due to human activities—challenge the persistence of many at‐risk prey species and require creative solutions beyond lethal predator control. In an 8‐year study, we placed small wire cages over western snowy plover nests that allow passage of plovers, but not their predators, and ...
R. R. Swaisgood, R. L. Smith, J. G. Schuetz, T. Wooten, L. I. Vilchis   +4 more
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Storying Multispecies‐Life‐and‐Death: Becoming‐Grief‐Able in Educational Spaces for Post‐Necrocene Futures

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We situate this article from/with/in the Necrocene, a geological period marked by the systematic production of human and more‐than‐human death to an extent that ecological destruction, extinction, loss and harm have become a structural feature of modern life.
Charlotte Hankin, Hannah Hogarth
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Seizures in children with Dravet syndrome in extreme heat: A qualitative study of parental perspectives

Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.
Perspectives of parents of children with Dravet syndrome indicate that extreme heat and high temperatures exacerbate epileptic seizures, introduce new seizure triggers, and require the adoption of specific seizure‑management strategies. Abstract Aim To describe parental perspectives on how heatwaves and high ambient temperatures influence seizure ...
Angel Aledo‐Serrano, José Ángel Aibar, Domingo Palacios‐Ceña, Maria Salcedo‐Perez‐Juana, Maria Palacios‐Ceña, Simona Giorgi, Manuel Lorenzo‐Dieguez, Sanjay M Sisodiya, Cristina García‐Bravo   +8 more
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Spousal salience in an aging rural South African cohort

Family Relations, EarlyView.
Abstract Background The importance of the spousal relationship within one's social circle—which we refer to as spousal salience—may have important implications for married individuals' outcomes as they age. Objective This study investigates factors that may be associated with spousal salience among a sample of aging adults in rural South Africa ...
Elyse A. Jennings, Nomsa B. Mahlalela, Guy Harling   +2 more
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Information-based approaches for managing jellyfish impacts on coastal tourism

Discover Oceans
Despite the continued presence of jellyfish on our beaches, little is known about the knowledge, perceptions and behavior of tourists and local residents about jellyfish and their influence on the choice of tourist destinations in the Moroccan ...
Bilal Mghili, Bouchra Benyoub, Mustapha Aksissou   +2 more
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Sources of Bathing Water Pollution in the West Coast of Tangier, Morocco: Effects of Industrial Zones

Proceedings, 2019
This study was carried out in the Boukhalef River which reaches the western coastal waters of Tangier, Morocco, loaded with wastewaters from two industrial zones: Tangier Free Zone and Gzenaya Zone.
El Khalil Cherif, Farida Salmoun, Nordine Nouayti   +2 more
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An integrative taxonomic characterization of extremophile fish Aphanius almiriensis (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes) in a hypersaline geothermal system (NW Anatolia)

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract The small killifish Aphanius almiriensis (Kottelat, Barbieri & Stoumboudi, 2007) inhabits from brackish springs to estuaries and coastal lagoons in the eastern Mediterranean basin. This study focused on the detailed characterization of Aphanius almiriensis from a hypersaline geothermal spring (Tuzla, Çanakkale, NW Anatolia), where extreme ...
Sevan Ağdamar, Gülşah Saç, Deniz Anıl Odabaşı, Müfit Özuluğ   +3 more
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