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Performing public credit at the eighteenth-century Bank of England [PDF]

, 2019
Much is known about the negotiation of personal credit relationships during the eighteenth century. It has been noted how direct contact and observation allowed individuals to assess the creditworthiness of those with whom they had financial connections ...
Abramson, Acemoglu, Acres, Anne L. Murphy, Binney, Booker, Bowen, Brantlinger, Carey, Clapham, Cobbett, Defoe, Defoe, Defoe, Defoe, Dickson, Fielding, Finn, Giuseppi, Kynaston, Leemans, Macdonald, Major, Malton, Mitchell, Mortimer, North, Roxburgh, Stasavage, Supple   +29 more
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
wiley   +1 more source

(2360) Proposal to reject the name Chenopodium caudatum (Amaranthaceae / Chenopodiaceae) [PDF]

, 2015
nomenclature Chenopodium ...
IAMONICO, DUILIO, Reveal, James L., Sukhorukov, Alexander P.   +2 more
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Exploring drivers and costs of partial trans‐Saharan migration in juvenile vultures

Ibis, EarlyView.
Partial migration occurs when only a subset of individuals within a population undertakes a migratory journey. The decision to migrate can be influenced by intrinsic traits (e.g. sex or physical condition) as well as by extrinsic factors (e.g. social environment or resource availability).
Eneko Arrondo, Ana Sanz‐Aguilar, Andrea Santangeli, Manuel De La Riva, David Serrano, Ainara Cortés‐Avizanda, Olivier Duriez, Juan Manuel Pérez‐García, José Antonio Sanchez‐Zapata, Martina Carrete, Juan Oltra, Antoni Margalida, Pilar Oliva‐Vidal, Guillermo Blanco, Oscar Frías, Félix Martínez, José Luis González‐Del Barrio, José María Martínez, José Antonio Donázar   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Convergence of Slobozhanska Iconography in the Discourse of Western European Baroque

Eikón Imago
Based on the analysis, generalization and systematization of documents, some well-known to researchers and others not so much investigated, this article studies the influence of Western European Baroque art on the iconography of the region of ...
Tetyanа Volodymyrivna Panyok
doaj   +1 more source

Effective Visual Communication in Higher Education: Intercultural and Cross‐Cultural Design

International Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines how undergraduate design students develop cultural sensitivity through a live brief by the Illegal Money Lending Team (IMLT), focusing on global‐local tensions in their responses. While prior studies address global‐local dynamics, few explore intercultural pedagogy in the United Kingdom live briefs.
Samantha Williams, Rebecca Harris, Carol Allison   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Of Carcasses and Christ: Rereading the Repugnant Ecological Other

Journal of Religious Ethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay claims that a collection of hunting and fishing devotionals provincializes a common trope in environmental literatures: the figure of the repugnantly anti‐ecological conservative Protestant. A close reading of these texts reveals their authors’ and ideal audiences’ extensive knowledge of land and animal minds, which deflates their ...
Colin B. Weaver
wiley   +1 more source

Integrative taxonomy supports DNA barcoding in revealing an abundant cryptic species in the United States Coastal Plain

Journal of Systematics and Evolution, EarlyView.
We present the most densely sampled phylogeny of Carex section Lupulinae to date (107 specimens) and describe herein a new cryptic species for science from the southern United States, which is locally abundant and found in well‐explored and densely populated areas. Combining DNA sequences with morphometric data obtained from 299 samples, we Demonstrate
Étienne Lacroix‐Carignan, Julian R. Starr, Robert F. C. Naczi, Eran S. Kilpatrick, Étienne Léveillé‐Bourret   +4 more
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The Iconography of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: The Symbolic Means in Visual and Design Culture [PDF]

International Journal of Arts Architecture & Design
The Iconography of Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) is a subject of significant scholarly interest, delving into various aspects of his life, work, and influence. Ambedkar’s impact on society, particularly formerly untouchable communities, has been
Arun Mascarenhas
doaj   +1 more source

A picture is worth a thousand words: The perplexing problem of indexing images [PDF]

, 2011
Indexing images has always been problematic due to their richness of content and innate subjectivity. Three traditional approaches to indexing images are described and analyzed. An introduction of the contemporary use of social tagging is presented along
Marlow, Lindsay L., Miller, Amy
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