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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Evidence on the performance of foetal growth ultrasound parameters to detect the Small‐for‐Gestational‐Age (SGA) foetus for a selective cohort is limited. We report the performance of estimated foetal weight under the 10th percentile (EFW < 10th) at the last selective screening ultrasound to detect SGA based on gestational age of ...
Charles Arcus +17 more
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A Tale of Enduring Myths: Buffon's Theory of Animal Degeneration and the Regeneration of Domesticated Animals in Mid-19th Century Brazil. [PDF]
J Hist Biol, 2023 Penteado DFM.
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A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
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Running towards: Labour market incentives for runaway slaves in the British Cape Colony, 1830–1838
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Recent scholarship on slave escapes has increasingly emphasised economic motivation, but few studies have empirically investigated how market incentives influenced the decision‐making of enslaved individuals during transitions from coerced to wage labour.
Karl Bergemann +2 more
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Political Rituals and Popular Politicization in Imperial Brazil
AlmanackThis article compares the mechanisms of popular politicization in nineteenth-century France and Brazil, in light of the innovative approaches of Emmanuel Fureix, presented at Almanack's forum on 26 August 2014, and published as an article in this issue ...
Hendrik Kraay
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Cristiano of Arabia: Did Ronaldo increase Saudi Pro League attendances?
Contemporary Economic Policy, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 260-270, April 2025.Abstract In December 2022, Cristiano Ronaldo, five‐time Ballon d’Or winner and the most‐followed person on Instagram, signed for Al‐Nassr in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This marked one of several expensive, recent interventions by the kingdom in global sports markets. We exploit the timing of this event to estimate superstar effects.
Dominik Schreyer, Carl Singleton
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Uma batalha naval concentra por si só um século de glórias: Riachuelo na história e na memória [PDF]
Navigator, 2015 This article aims to develop a reflection on the representations, memory and appropriations of the Battle of Riachuelo by various political groups and military throughout the Second Empire and the first two Republican decades.
José Miguel Arias Neto
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Marxism and Decolonizing Praxis: From Decolonial Misinterpretations to Marxist Contributions
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article intervenes in postcolonial and decolonial critiques that portray Karl Marx and Marxism as intrinsically Eurocentric and inattentive to race, colonialism and non‐European revolutionary agency. It argues that such critiques often rely on selective, historically limited interpretations that overlook Marx's later writings, in which he
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
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Nuevo mundo - Mundos NuevosThis article examines the trajectory of the chemical engineer Pedro de Alcântara Lisbon (-1885) as a technical agent of the Brazilian Empire in Europe, highlighting his work with the Sociedade Auxiliadora da Indústria Nacional (SAIN) and its insertion in
Rafael Dalyson dos Santos Souza
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Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
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