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Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej, 2021 The inventory of Tallinn merchant Michael Meyer’s (1704–1758) property is one of the largest inventories of an 18th century citizen of Tallinn. Almost the entire world of his possessions is reflected in this unique source.
Raimo Pullat, Tõnis Liibek
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Histories in bone: Navigating the ethical landscape of human skeletal collections in South Africa
Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract Provenance is at the center of addressing the complicated ethical stewardship of legacy human skeletal collections. Many South African (SA) health science institutions have skeletal collections. While the history of the collections and the demographics of the skeletons have been reported, the provenance of the individuals within the ...
Quenth Chinenere +2 more
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Separare letto e tavola. La separazione coniugale in una città moderna (Livorno, XVIII sec.)
Storicamente, 2010 In the modern age, marriages were not interrupted only by the death of a spouse. Some evidence suggests that marital separation was not unknown.
Chiara La Rocca
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Natural history in India during the 18th and 19th centuries
Journal of Biosciences, 2013 European access to India was multi-dimensional: The merchant-rulers were keen to identify commodities that could be profitably exported to Europe, cultivate commercial plants in India that grew outside their possessions, and find substitutes for drugs and simples that were obtained from the Americas.
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The Degradation of Access‐Based Business Models: Customer Misbehavior and Shared Mobility
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Access‐based services are considered one of the strategies to embed sustainability in business models. Yet, because the evolution of these business models has been overlooked, we do not know whether their promise to create triple value is sustained.
Andres Camacho, Carmen Valor
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A magia do novo. Índios cristãos nas fronteiras da Amazônia colonial
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2011 This article deals with the dynamic invention processes of new identities, beliefs and forms of living produced by Christian Indians in the borders of the Colonial Amazon. These borders were constituted as Zones of Contact among different groups: Indians,
Almir Diniz de Carvalho Júnior
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Surface Value: Ways of Seeing Decoration in Architecture
Architectural Histories, 2021 The long 18th century was a period of intense investment in elite architecture in Britain which sustained an extensive craft culture in carving, modelling, and joinery. Yet decoration is largely marginalised or ignored by architectural historians.
Christine Casey
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African Twist of Circular Economy: Insights, Policies and Recommendations
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While the circular economy (CE) has gained traction, this paper argues that mainstream CE approaches risk being misaligned in the African context. Drawing on a mixed‐methods synthesis of empirical studies, policy documents and cross‐country examples, the study shows that Africa's CE transition is fragmented and uneven, leaving the continent at
Michael Odei Erdiaw‐Kwasie +4 more
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, 2013 This article critically explores the history and nature of a hermeneutic assumption which frequently guided interpretations of Plotinus from the 18th century onwards, namely that Plotinus advanced a system of philosophy. It is argued that this assumption
L. Catana
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Striving for Significance: Development and Validation of the Desire for Significance Scale
European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The need for personal significance (i.e., the desire for mattering, meriting respect and ‘being someone’) is a psychogenic need that guides a variety of human behaviours studied across multiple domains of social psychology. Despite its relevance, a validated measure of stable individual differences in the motivation to satisfy the need for ...
Erica Molinario +14 more
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