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“In truth, I was really a pioneer”: Female Entrepreneurship and Selfhood Formation in Bethlehem's Diasporic Merchant Community, 1900–1940

open access: yesMashriq & Mahjar
This article explores girlhood, marriage, and female entrepreneurship in Bethlehem’s diasporic merchant families in the early twentieth century, focusing on the lives of two women whose transition from girlhood to womanhood overlapped with their ...
Eibhlin Priestley
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Women and Ultramodern Buddhism in Australia

open access: yesReligions, 2018
Buddhists started arriving in Australia in large numbers during the mid-1800s, and the first Buddhist societies and centres began to be formed in the mid-late 1900s.
Anna Halafoff, Jayne Garrod, Laura Gobey
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Convergences and divergences in mortality [PDF]

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Abdel Omran's 1971 theory of "Epidemiologic Transition" was the first attempt to account for the extraordinary advances in health care made in industrialized countries since the 18th century.
FFF1Jacques NNN1Vallin   +1 more
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Temporal Parameters of Spontaneous Speech in Forensic Speaker Identification in Case of Language Mismatch: Serbian as L1 and English as L2

open access: yesComparative Legilinguistics, 2017
The purpose of the research is to examine the possibility of forensic speaker identification if question and suspect sample are in different languages using temporal parameters (articulation rate, speaking rate, degree of hesitancy, percentage of pauses,
Kristina TOMIĆ
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Black British Women Filmmakers in the Digital Era: New Production Strategies and Re-Presentations of Black Womanhood

open access: yesOpen Cultural Studies, 2018
The story of Black women in British mainstream cinema is certainly one of invisibility and misrepresentations, and Black women filmmakers have historically been placed at the margins of British film history.
Herbert Emilie
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The underestimated role of pioneering women in radiation oncology: lessons from the past for today's practice.

open access: yesStrahlentherapie und Onkologie (Print)
PURPOSE The early history of radiation and radiation oncology is imprinted by innovative pioneers both in physics and clinical application. Despite the remarkable example of Marie Curie, the contributions of female physicians, physicists, and radiation ...
M. Oertel   +11 more
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Suicide rates in Maltese Islands (1955-2009) analysed in European context using WHO data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Aim: To calculate the suicide rates (for males and females) in Malta and other European countries with long series of suicide mortality as recorded in the WHO (World Health Organization) database, and compare the Maltese suicide rates with European rates.
Helema, Samuli   +2 more
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The Diversity of State Benefit Dependent Lone Mothers: the Use of Type Categories As an Analytical Tool [PDF]

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This article provides an empirical examination of how lone mothers who receive state benefits in Germany and Britain create meaning with regards to mothering and state dependency. It uses the concept of individualisation as it requires women to negotiate
Martina Klett-Davies
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From Justice Kagan, a Glimpse at Life on the Supreme Court [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
For first-year students at RWU Law, Kagan’s visit meant an insider’s perspective on the Supreme Court in their first days of law ...
Bowden, Michael M.
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Identification of doping suspicions through artificial intelligence-powered analysis on athlete’s performance passport in female weightlifting

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology
IntroductionDoping remains a persistent concern in sports, compromising fair competition. The Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) has been a standard anti-doping measure, but confounding factors challenge its effectiveness.
Hyunji Ryoo   +4 more
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