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Firearm Safety in a Country of Arms

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Firearm safety policy in the United States cannot succeed through legislation alone; effective interventions must also address the social, economic, and infrastructural conditions that shape perceptions of safety. Evidence suggests that place‐based investments can reduce violence and firearm deaths while strengthening social cohesion and ...
JONATHAN M. METZL
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Cascading geomorphic hazards triggered by fluvial floods in an anthropogenically-impacted beach. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Arróspide C, Aguilar G, Lazo P, Ojeda P, Flores-Aqueveque V, Garcés A.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Quantified impacts of post-fire debris flows on the habitat, population, and recovery of the endangered black abalone. [PDF]

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Bragg WK, Cox-Ammann KN, Fletcher NC, Raimondi PT.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Beach nourishment as a dynamic capital accumulation problem

Beach nourishment is a common coastal management strategy used to combat erosion along sandy coastlines. It involves building out a beach with sand dredged from another location.
Smith, Martin D., McNamara, Dylan, Slott, Jordan M., Brad Murray, A.   +3 more
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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
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Directing recreation pressure via pathways allows for coexistence of recreation and nature development on the upper beach. [PDF]

Landsc Ecol
van Rosmalen SJ, Homberger JM, Riksen M, Limpens J.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
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Resolving uncertainty in satellite-derived shorelines of a reef-lined beach using high spatiotemporal resolution topographic surveys. [PDF]

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Mikkelsen AB, Nicolow JC, Murray KD, Vitousek S, Moskvichev RU, Anderson TR, Fletcher CH.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Mere Amateurs’? Elementary Teachers and the Making of Scientific Authority in the British Child Study Movement

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
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