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Edna O’Brien’s Neglected Widows and Spinsters

open access: yesHumanities
From the witch-like widow on the edges of civilisation to the retired spinster who, after an active but disappointing sexual past, chooses to continue her single life, the celibate women of Edna O’Brien’s fiction have as much to contribute to the author ...
Maureen O’Connor
doaj   +1 more source

Maternal exercise improves vascular function in hypertensive offspring via A‐kinase anchoring protein 150 gene (Akap5) epigenetic modifications

open access: yesBritish Journal of Pharmacology, Volume 183, Issue 10, Page 2592-2612, May 2026.
Background and Purpose Regular physical activity is an effective non‐pharmacological approach to hypertension management and maternal exercise improves offspring cardiovascular health, although mechanisms remain unclear. A‐kinase anchoring protein 150 (AKAP150) targets protein kinase Cα to L‐type Ca2+ channels (CaV1.2), enhancing vascular tone in ...
Fang Qiu   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Female Education and Child Marriage

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 1032-1047, May 2026.
ABSTRACT We examine why the education of young girls has historically lagged behind that of young boys across different countries. Using data from 105 countries during 1990–2020, we discover some evidence that is consistent with the idea that parents in many traditional societies reduce investments in the primary schooling of their daughters after they
Hasan A. Faruq
wiley   +1 more source

The convent as cultural conduit: Irish matronage in early modern Spain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Irish catholic women religious who migrated to Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries established a strong tradition of schools, hospitals and charitable institutions.
Knox, Andrea
core  

Studying human culture with small datasets and evolutionary models. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Biol Sci, 2023
Micheletti AJC   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Celibacy among Single Urban Middle-Class Men: (Case of Study of Men Living in Four Iranian Metropolis) [PDF]

open access: yesمسائل اجتماعی ایران
This qualitative study, conducted in the grounded theory approach, offers an in-depth exploration of the attitudes and lived experiences of never-married men over the age of 30 residing in four major Iranian cities: Tehran, Tabriz, Mashhad, and Isfahan ...
Mohammad Taghi sabzehei   +3 more
doaj  

The near Elimination and Subsequent Restoration of the Married Presbyterate in the Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church in America

open access: yesReligions
This paper chronicles the evolution of the presbyterate of the Ruthenian Byzantine Metropolitan Catholic Church in the United States of America from the time of the first wave of immigrants to the United States to the present day.
Thomas P. Shubeck
doaj   +1 more source

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