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‘Had it not been for her’: Gender, Care Labour and Disability in the British Caribbean, 1788–1834
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 561-575, July 2025.Abstract This article explores the intersections between gender, disability and care labour in the slaveholding societies of the British Caribbean from 1788 to 1834. Considered economic burdens by slaveholders, aged and disabled bondswomen were made productive through caring for their enslaved peers, many of whom were themselves temporarily ...
Stefanie Hunt‐Kennedy
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Continental Scale Soil Monitoring: A Proposed Multi‐Scale Framing of Soil Quality
European Journal of Soil Science, Volume 76, Issue 4, July–August 2025.ABSTRACT Globally, soils are subjected to various management practices and stressors which can lead to degradation. This makes their protection essential for sustaining many functions and services as well as maintaining the overall life support system of Earth.
Grant A. Campbell +23 more
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Adaptation Becoming Business as Usual: A Framework for Climate-Change-Ready Transport Infrastructure
Infrastructures, 2018 Extreme weather damages and disrupts transport infrastructure in a multitude of ways. Heavy rainfall and ensuing landslides or flooding may lead to road or rail closures; extreme heat can damage road surfaces, or cause tracks, signalling or electronic ...
Andrew D. Quinn +5 more
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More than Math: On the Affective Domain in Developmental Mathematics
International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015 Students at a large urban community college enrolled in fourteen sections of a developmental algebra class. While cognitive variables are often used to place students, affective characteristics may also influence their success.
G. Michael Guy +2 more
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FROM TRASH TO TREASURE: RILKE AND VENICE REVISITED
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 127-193, April 2025.ABSTRACT Rilke loved Venice and visited or passed through a dozen times between 1897 and 1920. He wrote extensively about the city in prose and verse between 1898 and 1908, including a cycle of poems in the Neue Gedichte and a polemical ‘Aufzeichnung’ in Malte Laurids Brigge.
Robert Vilain
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People and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 3, Page 611-630, March 2025.Abstract As for any innovation, integrating farmland biodiversity into agricultural practices is a complex process, leading to decisions made under uncertainty, due to the difficulty of foreseeing the consequences of decisions. This uncertainty comes under many different forms, depending among others on the type of environmental innovation in ...
Olivier Billaud +2 more
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Nutritional Knowledge and Attitudes of Adolescent Swimmers in Trinidad and Tobago
Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, 2014 Purpose. To investigate the level of nutrition knowledge and attitude of adolescent male and female swimmers training competitively in Trinidad and Tobago. Methodology.
Marquitta C. Webb, Safiya E. Beckford
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Vehicle flood damage and household disaster assistance in the United States
Risk Management and Insurance Review, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 67-106, Spring 2025.Abstract Vehicles are the most commonly‐owned nonfinancial asset in the United States (US) and represent a relatively high share of net worth for low‐wealth households. Despite rising flood exposure from urban development patterns and climate change impacts, few studies have considered household vulnerability to vehicle flood damages.
Steven F. Koller
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 2, February 2025.This study is the first to use ddRAD‐seq sequencing technology for Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) analysis, systematically analyzing the genetic background of R. bailiense. This species exhibits rich genetic diversity at both species and population levels.
Jun Luo +8 more
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Serving Colony, Christ, and Country: The Political Career of Levinus Keuchenius*
Parliamentary History, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 126-145, February 2025.Abstract This article explores the career of Levinus Keuchenius to elaborate on how democratic governance lay at the heart of negotiating imperial power, as well as who belonged in the Dutch political community. Throughout his career, Keuchenius balanced being a colonial expert with his faith as orthodox Calvinist.
Lauren Lauret
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