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Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
wiley   +1 more source

Probability Distribution of Blasting Vibration Induced by Right Bank Dam Abutment High Rock Slope Excavation in Baihetan Hydropower Station

open access: yes工程科学与技术
Determining the probability distribution of blasting vibrations induced by high rock slope excavation can provide a theoretical basis for predicting the amplitude and frequency of these vibrations with uncertainty.
Pengchang SUN   +4 more
doaj  

‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
wiley   +1 more source

REPRODUCING OPERATIONAL LANDSCAPES: The Rock Mining for Indonesia's New Capital City

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Indonesia's new capital city is designed to become a green and sustainable city. In this article, we examine the (un)sustainability of the process through which the city is coming into being. Using the sociospatial theory of planetary urbanization, we trace the dialectical relationship between the new city and sites beyond it to show how ...
Bosman Batubara   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Theoretical and Experimental Study on Parameter Optimization for Blasting Excavation of Large Outwash Accumulation

open access: yes工程科学与技术, 2013
:The problem of poor blasting effect and low efficiency is widespread in the excavation of large outwash accumulation, which has complex composition of particulate matter,different cementation characteristics and uneven spatial distribution.With the ...
姚强   +5 more
doaj  

Influence of Small, Clear Distance Cross-Tunnel Blasting Excavation on Existing Tunnel below

open access: yesAdvances in Civil Engineering, 2019
The vibration effect generated during tunnel excavation can influence or damage adjacent tunnels. Studying and controlling the blasting vibration effect has important theoretical and practical significance, especially for new tunnels.
Baofu Duan   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Uncovering Biogas Outcomes: Tales of Hubris, Hope, and Failure From Southern Malawi

open access: yesNatural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to speak directly to biogas failure. Over the past two decades, immense amounts of money have been spent by African governments, private individuals, and most conspicuously, international aid agencies and donors, on countless biogas projects in every country on the continent.
Marc Kalina   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blasting vibration response characteristics of tunnel support structures in horizontally layered rock masses under initial in-situ stress

open access: yes河南理工大学学报. 自然科学版
ObjectivesTo analyze the stability of surrounding rock during tunnel blasting excavation in horizontally layered rock masses under initial in-situ stress.MethodsUsing LS-DYNA finite element software, numerical models were established under three ...
Yu Jianxin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Extraocular Photoreception in Optic Lobes, Suckers, and Skin of Octopus vulgaris

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Evidence of extra‐ocular photoreception in Octopus vulgaris (a) Diagram of the O. vulgaris different tissues considered: SPB, sucker proximal big; SPL, sucker proximal large; SM, sucker medium; SD, sucker distal; SK, skin; OL, optic lobes; RT, retina; (b‐d) Gene expression analysis of Ov‐GRK1 (red), Ov‐retinochrome (green), Ov‐rhodopsin (blue) mRNA ...
Valeria Maselli   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gonadal Development–Related Genes and a Male‐Specific Genetic Marker Identified in the Endangered Sichuan Taimen (Hucho bleekeri)

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Integrated transcriptomic and proteomic analyses were used to validate gonadal development–related genes and to identify a sex‐specific molecular marker in Hucho bleekeri. ABSTRACT Sex determination and differentiation represent fundamental topics in reproductive biology. Sichuan taimen (Hucho bleekeri), a first‐class national protected fish species in
Qinyao Wei   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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