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Chasing the perfida Albione: Anglo‐Italian productivity gap in the late 1930s
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper presents new estimates of Anglo‐Italian labour productivity levels in manufacturing in the late 1930s, derived using the standard single‐deflation approach. The findings confirm a substantial productivity gap between Italy and the United Kingdom at the aggregate level, alongside pronounced intersectoral heterogeneity.
Tancredi Salamone
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Defrosting humanism: Losing my ethical worldview in the wake of October 7th and Israel's retaliation
Ethos, EarlyView.Abstract This auto‐ethnographic analysis describes the loss of my ethical worldview and my attempts to regain it following the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent Israeli retaliation. On October 7th, I was unable to feel compassion for the people of Gaza or to take action against the Israeli retaliation, aspects that I used to see as ...
Yael Assor
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A case of transient hyperphosphatasaemia following vitamin D-deficient rickets
The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 1993 A seven-month-old boy with a diagnosis of vitamin-D deficiency rickets is presented. After treatment with vitamin-D, biochemical and radiological improvement was noted. At 14-months of age the plasma akaline phosphatase activity valve was found to
S Kutilek, J Stĕpan, M Bayer
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Czechoslovakia and Brazil 1945-1989; Diplomats, businessmen, spies and guerrilheiros [PDF]
Central European Journal of International & Security Studies, 2013 This work summarises political, economic and security relations be- tween Czechoslovakia and Brazil from 1945 to 1989. During this pe- riod Brazil adopted different approaches towards the Eastern bloc.
Matyáš Pelant
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The birth of a new reality. On the politicization of the literary field in Czechoslovakia during the 1920s controversies [PDF]
Slovenska LiteraturaIn the newly established Czechoslovak society, writers were expected to use their works to bear witness to the ongoing transformation of the world and, as creators of collective representations, to contribute to the construction and deconstruction of ...
Kateřina Piorecká
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Pisanje lista Rude pravo o Josipu Brozu u važnim momentima jugoslovensko-čehoslovačkih odnosa 1945-1969. [PDF]
Токови историје, 2018 This paper is based on the analysis of the changes in the writing of the Czech daily newspapers Rudé právo, the central body of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, about Josip Broz Tito under the inϐluence of political developments in the ...
Milan Sovilj
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Ibis, EarlyView.Mountain ecosystems are under strong environmental pressure and are considered highly vulnerable to climate change, which is likely to lead to forest expansion and loss of open alpine grasslands, threatening many specialized species. However, for most alpine birds, even basic ecological knowledge, such as their diet, remains limited, restricting our ...
Camille Mermillon +6 more
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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
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The Frontiersmen as an Object of Czech Nationalism 1918–1935
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the phenomenon of the frontiersmen, that is, the Czech minority border communities, as a part of the discourse of the Czech nationalist movement. Via the example of the Czechoslovak National Democracy party, it traces the frontiersmen on two levels.
Dominik Šípoš
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Reducing Burnout and Disengagement: A Review of the Strategies of Social Change Organizations
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The literature on burnout and persistence for activists or other social change actors has diversified from an explanation of causes to the study of how to address the challenges of disengagement. This review of the literature provides an analysis of organizational strategies for reducing burnout and disengagement.
David J. Hess
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