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Humanimals: A Socio‐Ecological Reading of the Marseille Plague of 1720

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The aim of this article is to return to a small number of historically significant first‐person testimonies of the Marseille epidemic of 1720 in order to analyse in detail their construction and depiction of human exceptionality as a form of life in a time of plague.
David McCallam
wiley   +1 more source

How Can Accountants Enhance (or Save) Natural and Cultural Capital Valuation? Engaging Academics: A Collaboration with CPA Canada and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO*

Accounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 21-46, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Accountants should engage more with natural and cultural capital accounting to make tools more accessible and to ensure critical information is provided to decision‐makers. While ecological economists have continued to innovate and design tools, corporate‐level accounting has seemingly lagged behind.
S. Leanne Keddie, Ellena Damini, Pavlo Kalyta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How did investigations into spontaneous human combustion influence alcohol medicine? An examination of the medical and literary discussions that brought the two together

Addiction, Volume 120, Issue 5, Page 1051-1057, May 2025.
Abstract Background and Aims The presence of sections or chapters on spontaneous human combustion in more than half of the key texts in English on the action of alcohol on the body and mind in the first half of the nineteenth century demonstrates the seriousness with which it was considered.
Iain Smith, Pam Lock
wiley   +1 more source

Persistence of Ancestral KhoeSan Mitochondrial Patterns in Contemporary South African Populations

Annals of Human Genetics, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Southern Africa has been inhabited by hunter‐gatherers for at least 20,000 years and has received diverse immigration flows in the last 2000 years. The original inhabitants have interacted with the pastoralist migrants from Eastern Africa (∼2000 ybp), followed by the southern Bantu migration arriving some 1000 ybp, and more ...
Maria Eugenia D'Amato, Peter Ristow, Michelle Livesey, Kirsty Heynes, Nicole Huber, Claudio Bravi, Anders J. Hansen, Walther Parson   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food Globalization in the Early Modern Period: Isotopic Evidence of Maize Introduction and Dietary Diversification on Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain (16th-18th CE). [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
Santana J, Sánchez Cañadillas E, Morales J, Morquecho Izquier A, Brito Mayor A, Iriarte E, García González R, Jiménez Mederos J, Cruz de Mercadal MDC, Moreno-García M, Rodríguez Rodríguez A.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Belief in neighbor behavior and confidence in scientific information as barriers to cooperative disease control

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent public health events have brought to the forefront the challenges of incorporating collective action behaviors and information seeking and processing behaviors to motivate personal protections to an environmental risk. The economic and social costs of large‐scale spread of disease when there is no cure for the disease, only preventative
Adelyn Flowers, Jonathan D. Kaplan, Ajay S. Singh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The history of nutritional sciences. [PDF]

Asia Pac J Clin Nutr
Li D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Simón Rodríguez and the sentimental roots of social republicanism

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 69, Issue 2, Page 471-482, April 2025.
Abstract In this article, I claim that Simón Rodríguez, a 19th‐century Venezuelan thinker, used and reconfigured Jean‐Jacques Rousseau's understanding of amour‐propre to construct a new political foundation for Latin America. He sought to channel it and other sentiments toward productive ends with a social education. In doing so, Rodríguez departs from
Alejandro Castrillón
wiley   +1 more source

A 700-year rupture sequence of great eastern Aleutian earthquakes from tsunami modeling of stratigraphic records. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Yamazaki Y, Cheung KF, Lay T, La Selle SM, Witter RC, Jaffe BE.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Decentralized propaganda in the era of digital media: The massive presence of the Chinese state on Douyin

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The rise of social media in the digital era poses unprecedented challenges to authoritarian regimes that aim to influence public attitudes and behaviors. To address these challenges, we argue that authoritarian regimes have adopted a decentralized approach to produce and disseminate propaganda on social media.
Yingdan Lu, Jennifer Pan, Xu Xu, Yiqing Xu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source