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Association of birth by cesarean section with academic performance and intelligence in youth: A cohort study

open access: yesActa Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 2023
Introduction It is suggested that birth by elective cesarean section (CS) reduces the risk of birth‐related infant mortality and injury. Other studies suggest an increased risk of somatic immune‐related diseases among children born by CS such as asthma ...
Agnes K. Ladelund   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
wiley   +1 more source

La fabrique du « soldat-citoyen » à travers la conscription en Turquie

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Turkish Studies, 2009
This paper examines how the disciplinary mechanisms of the Turkish army can produce a transformation in the habitus of the conscripts. As a total institution, the military institution integrates and normalizes the conscripts through rites, control of ...
Sümbül Kaya
doaj   +1 more source

Conscription and the developing countries

open access: yesInternational Journal of Economic Policy Studies, 2017
Many countries, mostly ones with developing economies, still have conscription. This study explains why, based on the costs of different recruitment systems. A conscription system can be costly to set up, and misallocates labor compared to all-volunteer recruitment, but entails a smaller wage bill.
Nguyen Vuong, David J. Flath
openaire   +1 more source

‘The Housewife's Greatest Standby’: Dried Eggs, Gender and Domesticity During the Second World War

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the previously underexplored connections between dried eggs, women and domesticity in Britain during the Second World War. It argues that newsprint and advertisements framed the purchase and use of dried eggs, a novel wartime product, as a means for housewives to contribute to the war effort through domestic labour. Dried
Joel Mead
wiley   +1 more source

Selling Military Service During Wartime: U.S. Army Recruitment Advertising and Enlistment Motivation During the War Against Terror

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Military Studies, 2019
This article examines the coherence between the themes expressed in the U.S. Army’s recruitment advertisements and the enlistment motivation among American soldiers enlisting in the Army in the years 2001–2010, when the country was involved in two wars ...
Martin Fransen
doaj   +1 more source

Conscription by Capture in the Wa State of Myanmar: Acquaintances, Anonymity, Patronage, and the Rejection of Mutuality

open access: yesComparative Studies in Society and History, 2019
Capturing people, sometimes by taking relatives hostage, is a common practice for purposes of conscription and law enforcement in the Wa State of Myanmar.
Hans Steinmüller
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Does the Rule of Law Require the Separation of Powers?

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
The separation of powers is an enigmatic political ideal, particularly in the context of the modern administrative state, in which administrative officials routinely perform a combination of legislative, judicial, and executive functions. In this article we reexamine this ideal by interrogating Adrian Vermeule's provocative claim that the separation of
Dimitrios Kyritsis, Matthew Lewans
wiley   +1 more source

Saying no to military service – obligation, killing and inequality as experienced problems in conscription-based military in Finland

open access: yes, 2019
While studying citizen-soldiers, their dual identity as a soldier and a civilian have been highlighted. A citizen-soldier’s role is linked to citizenship and its obligation.
J. Kosonen   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Causal Effect of Military Conscription on Crime*

open access: yesEconomic Journal, 2019
We study the causal effect of mandatory military conscription in Sweden on the criminal behaviour of men born in the 1970s. We find that military service significantly increases post-service crime (overall and across multiple crime categories) between ...
Randi Hjalmarsson, Matthew J. Lindquist
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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