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Surface Flashover in 50 Years: III. Extreme Environments and Industrial Challenges

open access: yesHigh Voltage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern high‐voltage electrical equipment operates in complex environments where surface conditions are subjected to multifaceted influences from electric fields, thermal gradients, contaminants, irradiation and other extreme environmental factors.
Zhen Li   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
wiley   +1 more source

Food Subsidies Reduce Livestock Depredations by a Recovering Carnivore

open access: yesAnimal Conservation, EarlyView.
Diversionary feeding—providing food caches to divert predators away from preying on livestock—is a strategy to reduce depredations by Mexican gray wolves but has not been evaluated for its effectiveness. We used data from the Mexican wolf recovery program from 2014‐2021 to evaluate whether diversionary feeding reduced livestock depredations by wolf ...
Matthew Hyde   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agroecology and Transformative Adaptation to Climate Change

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines transformative adaptation to climate change through the EFICAS Project (Eco‐Friendly Intensification and Climate‐resilient Agricultural Systems) implemented across 12 upland communities in northern Laos from 2014 to 2020.
Jean‐Christophe Castella
wiley   +1 more source

Volumetric mediations: Atmospheres of crisis and unbelonging in humanitarian drone documentaries

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This paper contributes to scholarship on drones’ more‐than‐military realms as they pertain to the atmospheres they create in visual culture. Focusing on two humanitarian drone documentaries, Ai Weiwei's Human Flow (2017) and Morgan Knibbe's Those Who Feel the Fire Burning (2014), I examine how their drone cinematography visualises the ...
Beryl Pong
wiley   +1 more source

The geographies of the Information Research Department: Intelligence, diplomacy and the British secret state

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper develops a historical and political geographical analysis of the UK Foreign Office's Information Research Department (IRD). Empirically it is grounded in archival study of IRD files concerning operations in Ghana and South Africa during the Cold War and specifically the 1960s and 1970s.
Ben Gowland
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring England's Palliative and End‐of‐Life Care Systems for People With Learning Disabilities: The Perspectives of Senior Health and Social Care Professionals and Commissioners

open access: yesBritish Journal of Learning Disabilities, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background There are many challenges to delivering effective palliative and end‐of‐life care for people with learning disabilities in England, with governmental and policy‐driven directives aiming to address this. This study aimed to explore how these directives are impacting care systems by investigating commissioning priorities, models of ...
Ned Redmore   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association between weather, air quality and asthma-related emergency department visits: a retrospective time-series study in Singapore. [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Open
Toh MR   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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