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What Are Select Committees For?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The modern select committee system in the UK House of Commons was introduced in 1979 to deepen opportunities for backbench MPs to hold government to account and strengthen Parliament vis‐à‐vis the executive. However, select committees play a much bigger role in parliamentary life.
Marc Geddes
wiley   +1 more source

Consumer Acceptance of Alternative Proteins: Exploring Determinants of the Consumer Willingness to Buy in Germany

Foods
In Western countries, a shift to a diet rich in proteins from diverse sources could aid the transition to more sustainable patterns of protein consumption and production, contributing to meet the future demand for protein from the growing population. The
Madita Amoneit, Leon Gellrich, Dagmara M. Weckowska   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

EVALUATING MATCHING AND ODDITY-TO-SAMPLE LEARNING IN HOUSE CRICKETS**

, 2023
Matching-to-Sample (MTS) and Oddity-to-Sample (OTS) are behavioral tasks often used in research focusing on animal cognition in vertebrate species. These tasks require a subject to perceive a sample stimulus and then direct their attention to two choice ...
Guerra*, Zachary T., Isaac, Walter L.
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The End of Self‐Regulation: Will the Football Governance Act 2025 Fix the National Game?

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
The Football Governance Act 2025 is a watershed. It upends the model of self‐regulation that has defined how the game has been run in England and Wales for over a century‐and‐a‐half. The newly created Independent Football Regulator will exercise control over clubs, owners, and competition organisers.
Jan Zglinski
wiley   +1 more source

Jimminy Crickets (Idaho), 1959

, 1959
Jimminy Crickets was the Laughlin family ...
Laughlin, Kyle E., 1905-1984
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
wiley   +1 more source

‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
wiley   +1 more source

Life-cycle of Oxyspirura petrowi (Spirurida: Thelaziidae), an eyeworm of the northern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus)

Parasites & Vectors, 2019
Background Oxyspirura petrowi (Spirurida: Thelaziidae), a heteroxenous nematode of birds across the USA, may play a role in the decline of the northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) in the Rolling Plains Ecoregion of West Texas.
Aravindan Kalyanasundaram, Matthew Z. Brym, Kendall R. Blanchard, Cassandra Henry, Kalin Skinner, Brett J. Henry, Jessica Herzog, Alyssa Hay, Ronald J. Kendall   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

G80-486 Crickets (Revised June 1987)

, 1980
Crickets: identification, damage, and control. Crickets belong to the order Orthoptera, most members of which have enlarged hind legs, adapted for jumping.
Kamble, Shripat T., Keith, David L.
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source