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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

The classroom as a space of resistance. Cooperation, gratitude and collective memory between neuroscience and social science. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Mollès D, Parada-Ulloa M.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘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

Principles of Molecular Evolution: Concepts from Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics for the Multilevel Theory of Learning. [PDF]

J Mol Evol
Smiatek J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Walking Through Housing History: Creative Histories Beyond the Classroom

History, EarlyView.
Abstract How might walking be used to support a creative and historically informed approach to learning about public health, environmental health and housing and take students beyond the traditional confines of the classroom? In this article, we discuss the development and delivery of a North London walking tour close to a university campus.
Zoë Hendon, Jill Stewart
wiley   +1 more source

The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
wiley   +1 more source

Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
wiley   +1 more source

Non-Perfect Propagation of Information to a Noisy Environment with Self-Evolution. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel), 2022
Mironowicz P, Horodecki P, Horodecki R.
europepmc   +1 more source

How do supermarkets shape the experience of vulnerable people in Australia's food system? A scoping review

Nutrition &Dietetics, EarlyView.
Abstract Aims The aim of this scoping review was to synthesise how supermarkets shape health behaviours and nutrition‐related outcomes of vulnerable populations in Australia. Methods Five databases were searched and studies were included if they discussed Australia's major supermarket chains, their relationship with vulnerable populations, and outcomes
Casey E. Webb, Jeremy Farr, Nathan Cook, Olivia R. L. Wright   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Amplification, Inference, and the Manifestation of Objective Classical Information. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel), 2022
Zwolak M.
europepmc   +1 more source