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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Swampland: The Cosmologist's Handbook to the String‐Theoretical Swampland Programme

open access: yesFortschritte der Physik, Volume 74, Issue 4, April 2026.
Abstract String theory has strong implications for cosmology, implying the absence of a cosmological constant, ruling out single‐field slow‐roll inflation, and that black holes decay. The origins of these statements are elucidated within the string‐theoretical swampland programme.
Kay Lehnert
wiley   +1 more source

Diplomatic devices : the social lives of foreign timepieces in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Japan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The present paper explores the social lives of European timepieces as a particular set of objects in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Japan, when the archipelago first encountered the “Southern Barbarians” from Portugal and Spain.
Koch, Angelika
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‘Matters of Household Proffit’: Sixteenth‐Century Manuscript and Print Exchanges in Bodleian Library, Ashmole 1477☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 215-230, April 2026.
Abstract The household book is a particular feature of the landscape of manuscript production post‐1475, and is particularly associated with women. Compiling manuscript household books in a post‐print landscape involved a specific kind of dialogue between the two material forms.
Carrie Griffin
wiley   +1 more source

Pocohontas's baptism : Reformed theology and the paradox of desire [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Seeking to elucidate certain elements of Reformed theology, the writer explores the conversion narrative concerning the baptism, in the early 17th century, of the Native American woman Pocahontas.
Fudge, Erica
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California Temperature Since 1520 CE Shows Interactions in Extremes of Heat, Drought, and Fire

open access: yesGeophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 5, 16 March 2026.
Abstract Summer maximum temperatures (Tmax ${T}_{\text{max}}$) in the Sierra Nevada have risen rapidly since the turn of the 20th century, especially above 1,500 m where trends in the south exceed 3°C century−1. To place this warming into context, we developed a 504‐year reconstruction of growing‐season (April–September) Tmax ${T}_{\text{max}}$ (1520 ...
Grant L. Harley   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Giga‐Voxel Multiscale Composite Architecture Mirrored Through a Data‐to‐Model Closed‐Loop Digital Twin

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, Volume 38, Issue 7, 2 February 2026.
Herein, a systematic digital twin workflow tailored for generating high‐fidelity virtual representations of anisotropic composite microstructures and giga‐voxel meso‐structural models is presented, leveraging a harmonious integration of top–down image‐based modeling and bottom–up data‐driven voxel generation.
Siwon Yu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Book Review

open access: yes, 2010
Welfare\u27s Forgotten Past: A Socio-Legal History of the Poor Law is a timely reminder of society\u27s legal duty to the poor. In an era of global economic turmoil, with recent welfare reform and heated debates over the extension of unemployment ...
Schatzle, Chad J.
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Notes From the Era of Pre‐Modern Fishing in the Baltic Sea Reveal an Extensive and Resilient Fishing Mode

open access: yesAquaculture, Fish and Fisheries, Volume 6, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT In the past half‐century, fishing in one regional part of the Baltic Sea, the Stockholm Archipelago, has almost disappeared due to falling fish abundance, especially of herring (Clupea harengus). By examining published observations and archived material on historical fishing patterns, we found evidence of a remarkably continuous high level of ...
Henrik Svedäng, Susanna Lidström
wiley   +1 more source

Sebastian Izquierdo on Universals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The paper deals with the theory of universals of Sebastian Izquierdo, a Spanish Jesuit author working in Rome, as he formulated and defended it in Disputation 17 of his major philosophical work The Lighthouse of Sciences, published in Lyon in 1659 ...
Novotný, Daniel D.
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