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What Are Select Committees For?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The modern select committee system in the UK House of Commons was introduced in 1979 to deepen opportunities for backbench MPs to hold government to account and strengthen Parliament vis‐à‐vis the executive. However, select committees play a much bigger role in parliamentary life.
Marc Geddes
wiley   +1 more source

Sensitivity Analysis of Excited-State Population in Plasma Based on Relative Entropy. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Shimada Y, Akatsuka H.
europepmc   +1 more source

125 years of exploration and research at Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK) 125 ans d'exploration et de recherches à Gough's Cave (Somerset, Royaume‐Uni)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello, Mark D. Lewis, Simon A. Parfitt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

Interstellar Mapping And Acceleration Probe: The NASA IMAP Mission. [PDF]

Space Sci Rev
McComas DJ, Christian ER, Schwadron NA, Gkioulidou M, Allegrini F, Baker DN, Bzowski M, Clark G, Cohen CMS, Cohen I, Collura C, Cully MJ, Dalla S, Desai MI, Driesman A, Eng D, Fox NJ, Funsten HO, Fuselier SA, Galli A, Giacalone J, Hahn J, Hegarty KP, Horbury T, Horanyi M, Kistler LM, Kubiak MA, Kubota S, Livi S, Lugaz N, Lee CO, Luhmann J, Matthaeus W, Mitchell DG, Mitchell JG, Moebius E, Pope S, Provornikova E, Rankin JS, Reisenfeld DB, Reno C, Richardson JD, Russell CT, Shaw-Lecerf MM, Scherrer J, Skoug RM, Shen MM, Spence HE, Sternovsky Z, Strumik M, Szalay JR, Tapley M, Tokumaru M, Turner DL, Weidner S, Westlake J, Wurz P, Zank GP.   +57 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
wiley   +1 more source

Riding Through Norms: Creating and Performing Athletic Femininity at American Ladies’ Equestrian Exhibitions, 1850–1890

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century, American agricultural fairs often featured ladies’ equestrian exhibitions. At these events, women constructed an athletic femininity based on skill and competitiveness that challenged traditional ideals of womanhood.
Gabrielle McCoy
wiley   +1 more source

Queering Institutional Milestones in Elite Higher Education: Queer Perspectives on Princeton University and Coeducation (1960–1980)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A new archive of oral history interviews from LGBTQIA‐identified alumni, faculty and staff reveals the complex ways that queer and transgender students understood, experienced and remembered the long transition from single‐sex to coeducation at Princeton University.
Ezelle Sanford III, Judy Jarvis, Eric Anglero   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Low-frequency oscillations in the magnetic nozzle of a Helicon Plasma Thruster

Maddaloni D, Bayón-Buján B, Navarro-Cavallé J, Terragni F, Merino M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Catholic Values and Gender Politics in the Colombian Mass Media: Acción Cultural Popular (ACPO) in the 1970s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non‐governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACPO) responded to women's changing roles and ...
Anna Cant
wiley   +1 more source