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Plasma insulin‐like growth‐factor 1 (IGF‐1) concentrations predict early life‐history traits in a wild mammal

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract The hormone insulin‐like growth factor 1 (IGF‐1) is a key player in the insulin/IGF signalling (IIS) pathway. Extensive biogerontological research demonstrates that this evolutionarily conserved nutrient‐sensing pathway plays a causal role in the regulation of growth ...
Sanjana Ravindran   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Success and failure in foreign policy: Comparing Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd's regional order‐building initiatives

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Remarkably little is known about what factors drive success or failure in foreign policy. In part, this is because there is little fundamental agreement on what constitutes success or failure in this domain in the first place. This article engages with these shortcomings by comparing two similar regional order‐building initiatives overseen by ...
Benjamin Day
wiley   +1 more source

Dangerous Deference: What the British Public Think about Civil‐Military Relations

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Accepted norms of democratic civil‐military relations aver, regarding the use of force, that military officers may not substitute civilians’ judgement with their own and that civilians should not follow their guidance blindly. These theories often rest on the presumption that three critical actors—government, armed forces, and the public ...
David Blagden   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

International Tourism in the Global South: Revealing an Extractive Development Process

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Hosting international tourism remains a key development strategy for many Global South countries to generate economic growth, government revenue and employment. However, this conventional wisdom can be contested: tourism may instead be seen as an extractive process that disrupts livelihoods, ecosystems and host economies.
Julia Jeyacheya, Mark P. Hampton
wiley   +1 more source

ANALYSIS OF THE WORLD CRUISE INDUSTRY

open access: yesDIEM : Dubrovnik International Economic Meeting, 2020
The paper explores the causes and consequences of dynamic growth on global cruise market. Research objectives are to determine the new trends in cruising and to identify challenges and opportunities facing the cruise industry in the future. The findings show that there is a growing demand from all the world source markets, especially from the Asian ...
openaire   +3 more sources

‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
wiley   +1 more source

Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, vol. 85 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1985
Covering Leg 85 of the cruises of the Drilling Vessel Glomar Challenger Los Angeles, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii March-April 1982. Includes six chapters: 1.
Barron, John A.   +14 more
core   +1 more source

Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

SERVICE ACTIVITIES OF CRUISE INDUSTRY [PDF]

open access: yesGEOGRAPHY AND TOURISM, 2018
Serhii Neilenko, Olexander Zarakhovskyі
openaire   +1 more source

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