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Thomas Muir at Glasgow: John Millar and the University [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This chapter looks at the reformer Thomas Muir's education at the University of Glasgow, his time studying under John Millar, Professor of Law, and the events leading to Muir's withdrawal from the ...
Young, Ronnie
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Epistemic diversity and the politics of knowledge in plant disease management: Insights from the Xylella fastidiosa epidemic in southern Italy

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Xylella fastidiosa is a major plant pathogen affecting crops such as grapes, citrus, almonds, and olives, with potentially severe consequences for agricultural production and rural livelihoods worldwide. This paper examines the conflict around the management of the X. fastidiosa outbreak affecting olive trees in southern Italy.
Fabio Gatti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cast Off the Yoke of Tyranny!: The Influence of the Reformation upon the Enlightenment and World Revolution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper explores the connection between the Protestant Reformation and the Revolutions in America and France during the eighteenth century. When the Reformation started, with it came a strong opposition to absolutism and other forms of perceived ...
Keane, Kevan D
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Sonified Signals From a Compact FT‐ICR Instrument: A Feasibility Study. I—Data Mapping to an Equal‐Tempered Chromatic Scale

open access: yesRapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rationale Ions trapped within a Penning cell (ICR) travel periodic orbits whose frequencies are dependent on their mass‐to‐charge ratio and the value of the magnetic field passing through the trap. Fourier transformation (FT‐ICR) decomposes the signal induced in the detection circuit by the rotation of the ions in the cell after the ...
Patrick Arpino, Michel Heninger
wiley   +1 more source

On the necessity of wonder: how to explain an artwork to a committee [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This essay emerged from an exhibition in 2006 in which notions of the Wunderkammer became central in the curation of the show. It brought together work by Anna Boggon, Silke Dettmers and Helen Maurer, three artists employing the language of what one ...
Dettmers, Silke
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Attending to Preservice Teachers' Assets: Beliefs and Practices for Supporting Expansive Sensemaking in Elementary Science

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Preservice elementary science teachers' beliefs and practices influence the kinds of adaptations they make to curriculum materials and the extent to which they are able to enact justice‐oriented science lessons. Through this qualitative study, we explored the beliefs and practices of five focal preservice teachers through an analysis of their ...
Jessica Bautista, Elizabeth A. Davis
wiley   +1 more source

Africa's Leadership in Global Development Debates: Contribution of the Common African Position to the Post‐2015 Development Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The adoption of the Common African Position (CAP) by the African Union in 2014 marked a transformative shift in Africa's engagement with global development, shaping the post‐2015 development agenda and sustainable development goals (SDGs). Despite its significance, the CAP's contributions remain underacknowledged in mainstream narratives. This
Hafte Gebreselassie Gebrihet   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Theatre to Transformation: Learning, Action, and Diffusion for SDG2 in Cambodia

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The arts are envisioned as able to help address the longstanding ‘implementation gap’ between research and realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For SDG2 (Zero Hunger), Forum Theatre offers a participatory alternative to top‐down interventions, yet its impacts have not been evaluated using rigorous, mixed‐methods that are ...
Brian R. Cook   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Second Great Awakening and the Making of Modern America

open access: yes, 2018
In the decades before the Civil War which began in 1861, the Second Great Awakening was the most powerful social movement in America. It inspired the conversion of millions of Americans to faith in Jesus Christ.
Irish, Kerry
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