Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 859-869, October 2026.ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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Exergame-based cognitive-motor integrated training: A novel approach to improving physical functions in older adults. [PDF]
Hong Kong Physiother JYang DJ, Lee HS.
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture
Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 752-764, October 2026.ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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Assessing responses of reef island seabirds to environmental and anthropogenic drivers
Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 5, October 2026.Abstract Tropical insular ecosystems face escalating, cumulative impacts of land‐ and sea‐based ecological threats that jeopardize the long‐term sustainability of their native communities. This joint vulnerability is epitomized by reef island seabirds, which are exposed to reef decline and coastal erosion driven by climate change, reduction in prey ...
Tristan Berr +7 more
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Increased c-Fos expression in lateral habenula during social transmission of negative valence in prairie voles. [PDF]
Mol AutismPabón DG +5 more
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European Journal of Neuroscience, Volume 64, Issue 7, October 2026.An EEG‐based BCI was developed to train self‐regulation of the theta/delta power ratio during natural speech listening in adults with developmental dyslexia. Participants controlled a spaceship through their neural activity across eight daily training sessions.
Xuanci Zheng +3 more
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Oscillatory and gaze signatures of socio-emotional speech processing, visuo-spatial cognition, and their interaction in a near-realistic dual-task MEG study. [PDF]
Imaging Neurosci (Camb)Lingelbach K, Herrmann CS, Rieger JW.
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Expert Systems, Volume 43, Issue 10, October 2026.ABSTRACT This study presents a comprehensive methodology for processing multilingual customer support data to prepare it for training AI‐based conversational systems. Using a dataset of 36,599 unique customer interactions from a Finnish energy company, we employed language‐specific BERT models to identify and analyse thematic patterns within customer ...
Joona Mäntyvaara +2 more
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Prosodic focus marking in Seoul Korean-speaking children: the use of prosodic phrasing. [PDF]
Front PsycholYang A, Cho T, Kim S, Chen A.
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Journal of Food Safety, Volume 46, Issue 5, October 2026.Hyperspectral imaging and an optimized stacking ensemble learning model are developed for rapid, nondestructive toxicological assessment of fish meat. This framework integrated multiple machine learning classifiers to accurately distinguish toxicologically contaminated fish from fresh samples using both reduced (25‐band) and full (224‐band) spectral ...
Muhammad Aqeel +5 more
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