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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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Façade Psychology Is Hardwired: AI Selects Windows Supporting Health
BuildingsThis study uses generative AI to investigate the influence of building façade geometry on human physiological and psychological health. Employing Christopher Alexander’s fifteen fundamental properties of living geometry and a set of ten emotional ...
Nikos A. Salingaros
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Ethics, Philosophy and the Environment [PDF]
, 2018 Educated people everywhere now acknowledge that ecological destruction is threatening the future of civilization. While philosophers have concerned themselves with environmental problems, they appear to offer little to deal with this crisis. Despite this,
Gare, Arran
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
History, EarlyView.Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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Who\u27s accessing emergency food services? [PDF]
, 2015 Introduction: Last year, Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf provided 1,260,517 pounds of food to over 11,000 people each month via groceries, hot meals and home delivery, supplying an average of almost 40% of food for families.
Christensen, Judith +9 more
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
History, EarlyView.Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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Christopher Alexander cabalga de nuevo.
UR: urbanismo, 1988 Ressenya del llibre: Alexander, Christopher. A new theory of urban design. New York ; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
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Convergence of measures on compactifications of locally symmetric spaces
, 2018 We conjecture that the set of homogeneous probability measures on the maximal Satake compactification of an arithmetic locally symmetric space $S=\Gamma\backslash G/K$ is compact. More precisely, given a sequence of homogeneous probability measures on $S$
Daw, Christopher +2 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Synonymous with the rise of Big Tech, venture capitalists (VCs) are asset managers that invest in early‐stage companies, pursuing aggressive growth and market domination. Since the 2008 financial crisis, VCs have poured huge sums into real estate start‐ups.
Tim White
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Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background High volumes of low‐value imaging represent a growing challenge for healthcare systems, contributing to unnecessary radiation exposure, increased costs, clinician burnout and environmental impact through CO2 emissions. Electronic Clinical Decision Support (eCDS) systems have emerged as a strategy to improve imaging appropriateness ...
Bruno Di Muzio +8 more
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