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Traditional roof coverings in the North York Moors National Park [PDF]
, 2006 Purpose – The paper seeks to deal with vernacular roofing practices within the North York Moors National Park. Design/methodology/approach – Initially the paper carries out a literature review of the geography and geology of the area and identifies what ...
Scott, Alan
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False Claims in Fight Over California's False Claims Act [PDF]
, 2021 In this article, Ventry reviews the business lobbying efforts that derailed California legislation to amend the state’s False Claims Act by permitting tax claims.
Ventry, Dennis
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Unequal Spaces, Unequal Minds: How Spatial Inequality Drives Excessive Educational Consumption
Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The after‐school educational services market is booming, driven by growing parental anxiety and demand for excessive tutoring. This paper identifies spatial inequality, defined as the uneven distribution of resources across geographic areas, as a key driver that pushes parents toward excessive consumption of educational products.
Yuxuan Liu
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The ‘Lost’ Church of Bix Gibwyn: The Human Bone [PDF]
, 2011 Recent research for the Victoria County History (VCH) highlighted the presence of a ‘lost’ medieval church in Bix, a Chilterns parish north-west of Henley-on-Thames.
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Human activity near seabird colonies is often equated with disturbance. Coping with human disturbance is a critical task in the management of seabird colonies where human access is an issue. Nest‐site fidelity and breeding dispersal were characterised in an Arctic tern population exposed to a high level of benign human activity from resident ...
Chris P. F. Redfern, David Steel
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Affective assemblages of kinship and single mothers’ labour migration from a ‘climate hotspot’
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In coastal Bangladesh, ‘affective assemblages of kinship’ produce differential abilities for landless single mothers to migrate to brick kilns, the garment industry, and the Gulf. This group of women who return to their natal homes as a response to violence or abandonment is neglected by anthropologists of kinship and migration. Thinking of assemblages
Camelia Dewan
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The origin and evolution of urban form in Wanganui East, Gonville and Castlecliff : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Geography at Massey University [PDF]
, 1970 The decision to study the urban form of Wanganui East, Gonville and Castlecliff (Plates 1,2 and 3) was made in 1968 after discussions with Mr. Ross, the then Town Planner for the City of Wanganui. Tho topic was chosen for two reasons.
Dickson, Thomas Gordon
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Racket sociality: investigating intimidation in North India
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article is an ethnographic investigation into acts of intimidation and threats. Theoretically, it dialogues with ‘racket’ – a key analytical term in the sociology of domination, state‐making, and mafias. The anthropology of power, violence, and crime has paid scant attention to the morphology of threats and the ways interpersonal intimidation ...
Lucia Michelutti
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Newton Hall and the cruck buildings of North West England [PDF]
, 2010 This study is an introduction to the archaeology and history of Newton Hall, Hyde, in Tameside. As a timber-framed cruck building from the late medieval period it is one of the oldest homes in North West England, and was one of the first such buildings ...
Nevell, MD
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Northerly-Outlying Records of Two Species of Hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in Michigan [PDF]
, 2017 (Excerpt) The Grand Traverse Region of Lower Michigan is of special interest zoo- geographically in that it includes the northernmost known localities for various species of organisms characteristic of the Carolinian Biotic Province (Douglass 1977, 1983;
Douglass, John F
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