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Impacts of bat use of anthropogenic structures on bats and humans
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Human‐induced landscape modifications and climate change are forcing wildlife into closer contact with humans as the availability of natural habitats decreases. Although the importance of anthropogenic structures for the conservation of species is widely recognized, negative narratives surrounding bats may impede conservation efforts in human ...
Ella A. Sippola +15 more
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Igniting the creative spirit ... a television series that left its mark [PDF]
, 2016 No abstract ...
Riach, Alan
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Addressing environmental misperceptions for nature recovery
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract A poorly understood and systemic challenge to global conservation agreements is shifting baseline syndrome (SBS), wherein people misperceive the extent to which nature has changed. This can diminish societal expectations for nature recovery. We broadened the conceptual framing of SBS beyond the more common elements of nature loss to include ...
Shuo Gao +3 more
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the gender wage gap and wage setting in the early cotton spinning factories of the industrial revolution, with a specific focus on Richard Arkwright's Lumford Mill in Bakewell, Derbyshire. The research links workers from the mill's wage books with parish baptism records to estimate ages and construct age–wage profiles in ...
Alexander Tertzakian
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The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–1900
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The reason for malaria's disappearance from northwestern Europe in the early twentieth century has long been discussed but remains an unresolved conundrum. This is partially due to a previous focus on the early modern era, and partially because various theories have never been tested against each other.
Mathias Mølbak Ingholt +3 more
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We develop new datasets of monthly grain prices in 14 urban markets and of the storage and marketing of grain by 5 rural estates located in western Germany between the late seventeenth century and c. 1860. We explore whether observed patterns of monthly prices, sales, and storage of grain are consistent with the rational competitive storage ...
Matthias Hartermann +2 more
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Equine Veterinary Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Background To date, relationships between pre‐covering endometrial swab cytology and bacteriology and fertility outcomes in Thoroughbred broodmares in the United Kingdom are unknown and could aid clinical decision making. Objectives To investigate associations between cytology and bacteriology findings from the last endometrial swab taken in ...
Billy Fehin +4 more
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Racialized Labour in the Colonial Food Regime: The Whitening of England's Farmworkers
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The crystallization of a colonial food regime in the 1870s centred around Britain is key to historical accounts of agrarian political economy. Yet such accounts have neglected the role of the agrarian proletariat in shaping this regime from below and its basis in racialized hierarchy.
Ben Richardson
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Remoteness, Rurality and Mental Health Problems (Findings paper no. 5) [PDF]
, 2002 Findings papers associated with ESRC-funded research project, 'Social Geographies of Rural Mental Health' (R000 23 8453)
Burns, Nicola +2 more
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Material Semiotic Narratives of Finnishness Through a Mundane Object: The Case of the Plastic Bucket
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores how Finnishness is constructed in media texts with and through plastic buckets. By so doing, the article contributes to research on materiality and nationalism through examining the role of a mundane object instead of official national symbols.
Alma Onali
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