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Fetal-placental antigens and the maternal immune system: Reproductive immunology comes of age. [PDF]

Immunol Rev, 2022
Abstract Reproductive physiology and immunology as scientific disciplines each have rich, largely independent histories. The physicians and philosophers of ancient Greece made remarkable observations and inferences to explain regeneration as well as illness and immunity.
Petroff MG, Nguyen SL, Ahn SH.
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Gothic painting in the Catalan-speaking lands between the 14th and 15th centuries [PDF]

Catalan Historical Review, 2015
Gothic painting in the Catalan-speaking lands evolved over a dense fabric left by 13th century art, which had gradually shed its Byzantine legacies.
Rosa Alcoy
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Staging Grounds: Loutherbourg and Warley

Art History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 778-810, September 2023., 2023
In 1778, Philippe‐Jacques de Loutherbourg began work on a pair of companion pictures marking George III's attendance at a spectacular military review on the broad expanse of Essex wasteland that was Warley Common. Scholars of the painter's art have largely overlooked these ambitious, large‐scale landscapes, but their commission and subsequent display ...
John Bonehill
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A secret thing: Forgetting the author in Annette von Droste‐Hülshoff's “Das erste Gedicht”

The German Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 4, Page 498-515, Fall 2023., 2023
Abstract This article examines the notion of secrecy in Annette von Droste‐Hülshoff's poem “Das erste Gedicht” (1846), pursuing its inquiry through a critical analysis of the gendering of space and authorship in Walter Benjamin's commentary on her poetics in Deutsche Menschen. Eine Folge von Briefen (1936).
Julia Gutterman
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NOSTALGIA AND (PRE‐)MODERNITY

History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 2, Page 251-271, June 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT This article argues that, in the fourteenth century, there was a wave of nostalgia that was provoked by extreme structural change: this was a moment of demographic catastrophe (with famine and plague), endemic warfare, economic fluctuation, intensified urbanization, and intellectual and spiritual novelties.
Hannah Skoda
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Students in the Forest: The Role of Design‐Build Pedagogies in Repairing Material Disconnections in Architecture Education

International Journal of Art &Design Education, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 230-245, May 2023., 2023
Abstract This article explores an intellectual disconnection in architectural education about the conception of wood as a building material. It explores initiatives to develop in future architects a deeper consciousness of the complex ecology of timber, promoting its sustainable use in the building industry.
James Benedict Brown, Francesco Camilli
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Language as a Specimen

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 92-113, March 2023., 2023
Abstract Language was never studied by linguists (or philologists) alone. The greater part of the languages of the world was first known in the West through the reports of missionaries, explorers, and colonial administrators, and what they documented reflected their specific interests.
Floris Solleveld
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Fantasies of home: “Heimat” in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Haimatochare

The German Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 6-21, Winter 2023., 2023
Abstract E. T. A. Hoffmann's Haimatochare, an epistolary fiction set in Hawaii, defamiliarizes the narrative of an erotic colonial fantasy by coaxing the reader into the assumption that its alluring central figure is an Indigenous woman and then revealing her to be an insect.
Polly Dickson
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The ‘Gothic Slum’: MPs and St Stephen's Cloister, Westminster, 1548–2017*

Parliamentary History, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 279-302, June 2022., 2022
Abstract The history of St Stephen's cloister in the Palace of Westminster, a fragile and little‐known Tudor survival, exemplifies the long‐standing tensions between preserving parliament's built heritage and meeting its political and business needs.
Elizabeth Hallam Smith
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Micro Nanoengraving Technology and Aesthetic Practice of Architectural Sculpture Art

Journal of Nanomaterials, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022
Micro nanotechnology refers to the emerging technology of material production using a single atomic or molecular structure. The structure and size of materials range from one to 100 microns or nanometers. In this paper, micro nanotechnology is used to study the aesthetic practice of sculpture technology and architectural sculpture art.
Weili Zhu, Dong Wei, Awais Ahmed
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