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Scandalisation, gender and space in ancient Rome: The case of Cicero and Clodia

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the public attack on Clodia Metelli, a Roman aristocratic woman, by the orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in a trial in 56 BCE. Drawing on modern scandal theory, this article analyses how Cicero uses scandal dynamics to turn Clodia, the witness in the case, into the culprit.
Muriel Moser
wiley   +1 more source

Sunspots and monetary policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
A monetary economy subject to expectational sunspots is prone to instability, in the sense of multiple rational expectations equilibria. We show how to modify the policy rule to guarantee stability in the presence of expectational sunspots. The policy-
Chadha, J, Corrado, L
core  

1. Do Not Disperse the Collection! Motivations and Strategies for Protecting Cuneiform Scholarship in the First Millennium BCE

open access: yesSharing and Hiding Religious Knowledge in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, 2018
By the early first millennium BCE, cuneiform culture was fighting a long, slow battle against obsolescence. Alphabetic scripts from the Levant, comprising just a few dozen characters, were easy to memorise and straightforward to use.
E. Robson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source

Bread crust extract is a novel activator of aryl hydrocarbon receptor and modulator of NRF2 and NFκB in HepG2 and HCT 116 cells

open access: yesCurrent Research in Food Science
The Maillard reaction describes the non-enzymatic formation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs), e.g., during thermal food processing. Studies on the mode of action and health implications of food-derived AGEs are often contradictory and lack ...
Anne Grosskopf   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Moving Beyond Gender Stereotypes: Reinterpreting Female Celtic Statues from Entremont, France [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In the field of archaeology, male bias has been prevalent in both theory and practice. Female Celtic statues from Entremont, France are an example of how this bias can negatively affect the study of past peoples. Male archaeologists who have excavated or
McGurty, Kathleen A.
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Applying the maximum entropy principle to neural networks enhances multi‐species distribution models

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract The increasing volume of presence‐only (PO) data generated by citizen science initiatives has greatly expanded biodiversity databases, but the statistical use of these data in species distribution models (SDMs) remains limited by strong sampling biases and the absence of reliable absence information.
Maxime Ryckewaert   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Az innováció és az oktatás a versenyképesség alapvető tényezői Az 56. Közgazdász-vándorgyűlés főbb megállapításai

open access: yesKöz-gazdaság, 2018
Sikeres volt a 2018. szeptember 6. és 8. között Debrecenben megrendezett Magyar Közgazdasági Társaság 56. Közgazdász-vándorgyűlése. A konferencia három napja alatt, két plenáris és 19 szekcióülés keretében csaknem 190 előadó osztotta meg gondolatait a ...
Sándor Kozák   +2 more
doaj  

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