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Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
wiley   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence for In-Flight Detection of Space-Related Ocular Trauma: Bridging Diagnostic Gaps in Microgravity. [PDF]

Vision (Basel)
Zheng J, Shah J, Pathuri S, Ong J, Lee AG.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

Short-term visual acuity outcomes and prognostic factors following 25-gauge pars plana vitrectomy for intraocular foreign body extraction. [PDF]

Front Med (Lausanne)
Liang Y, Lv X, Niu J, Zhang S, Feng P, Xiong Z, Yang Y.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

A 17-Year Descriptive Analysis of Firework-Related Eye Injuries on Territory Day in Northern Australia. [PDF]

Emerg Med Australas
Daley JR, Safi SA, Devanathan A, Lau J, Perera D, Brownlea S, Wang Z, Tumuluri K, Wickramasinghe S.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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

Eye-related emergency calls and prehospital management in region Zealand, Danmark: a register-based cohort study. [PDF]

Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med
Jensen N, Blomberg SNF, Sørensen TL, Thiele-Nygaard AE, Møller TP, Rafner M, Blomberg AM, Christensen HC.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Brave, Armed and Watchful’: Domestic Militarization and Contested Femininities During the Kenyan Emergency

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the militarization of white settler women during the Kenya Emergency (1952–1960), analyzing how their armed participation disrupted and reconfigured colonial gender norms. Drawing on visual and textual archival and newspaper sources, this article explores representations of settler women as maternal guardians of the ...
Lauren Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Metallic clip removal 40 years after scleral encircling surgery for retinal detachment: A case report. [PDF]

Am J Ophthalmol Case Rep
Matsumoto M, Matsubara H, Muramoto Y, Mase Y, Kato K, Kondo M.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source