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Russian women in German universities — pioneers of female higher education? [PDF]

open access: yesVestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2016
From the turn of the century till the beginning of World War I students from the Russian Empire formed the largest group of foreign students in Germany. In recent literature, Russian women have even been considered the pioneers of university education for women in Germany where the admission of females as regular students was permitted later that in ...
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\u27A Blood-Stained Corpse in the Butler\u27s Pantry’: The Queensland Bush Book Club

open access: yes, 2011
Lending libraries were not the norm in 1934 when the Carnegie Corporation of New York sent American librarian, Ralph Munn, to conduct a study of the condition of Australian libraries.
Wagner, Robin
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Review: Historical and futuristic developments in bovine semen technology

open access: yesAnimal, 2018
Up to the 18th century, the prevailing view of reproduction, or ‘generation’ as it was referred to, was that organisms develop from miniatures of themselves, termed preformation.
P. Lonergan
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What (Counter) Monuments for Feminism? The Debates over Monumental Commemoration and the Search for New Feminist Memory Frameworks

open access: yesHistories
At the intersection of memory and feminist studies, this article examines the issue of suffrage and feminist monumental commemoration in the United States.
Claire Sorin
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Contextualizing immigrant inter-wave dynamics and the consequences for migration processes [PDF]

open access: yes
What drives international migration? Theories of migration networks, migration culture, migration systems and cumulative causation suggest that once a critical threshold level of migrants have settled, migration tends to stimulate the creation of social ...
Agnieszka Kubal, Rianne Dekker
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Pioneering Women\u27s Committee Struggles with Hard Times [PDF]

open access: yes, 1988
[Excerpt] The Women\u27s Committee of IUE Local 201, established informally in 1976 and officially in 1978, is one of the oldest and longest-lived union women\u27s committees in the country.
Brown, Alex, Sheridan, Laurie
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From A-Town to ATL: The Politics of Translation in Global Hip Hop Culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article examines the linguistic and cultural tensions in global Hip Hop culture through an analysis of the performance of Gsann, an emcee from the Tanzanian Hip Hop crew X Plastaz, at the 2009 Black Entertainment Television (BET) Hip Hop Awards in ...
Droessler, Holger
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Self-selection and Earnings of Migrants: Evidence from Rural China [PDF]

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Using data from a rural household survey in China, this paper explores the link between employment choice (nonworking, local farm work, local nonfarm work and migratory work) and migrant earnings. We find significant self-selection in migration.
Zheren WU
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Nurturing children, supporting families: Welsh Assembly Government policy statement (Guidance document) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
"This document makes clear the Welsh Assembly Government’s immediate priorities for childcare and longer-term ambitions. It sets out the actions that will be taken forward in the short, medium and longer term to ensure that all families are given the ...

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