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King's Lynn and the Low Countries in the Early Seventeenth Century: Maritime Trade and Sexual Scandal

open access: yesHistory, Volume 110, Issue 390, Page 173-193, March 2025.
Abstract This article analyses the general pattern of King's Lynn's overseas trade as it is recorded in the port books during the early years of the reign of James I and the place of trade with the Low Countries within that overall pattern. It shows how Lynn's merchants adapted to the emergence of the new Dutch Republic and in particular to the growth ...
G. ALAN METTERS
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'The Paintings Within' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This is one of several contributory essays in the volume: 'Nicholas Lanier, 1588–1666. A Portrait Revealed'. It examines the two paintings that are internal to the portrait and suggests reasons for their inclusion and also proposes that they require ...
Wilks, Tim
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Complex network control and stability through distributed critic‐based neuro‐fuzzy learning

open access: yesIET Control Theory &Applications, Volume 19, Issue 1, January/December 2025.
The research introduces a novel distributed consensus protocol and adaptive learning algorithm for synchronization and phase tracking in networks of oscillators, utilizing a critic‐based neuro‐fuzzy learning method. The approach aims to achieve consensus, minimize tracking errors, and demonstrates superiority over conventional proportional integral (PI)
Javad Soleimani   +2 more
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“Youth is Drunke with Pleasure, and therefore Dead to all Goodnesse”: Regulating the Excess of the Erotic Early Modern Body [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article investigates the erotic and youthful body in John Fletcher’s play The Faithful Shepherdess, written for The Children of the Queen’s Revels c.1607. For many early modern scholastic, medical, and conduct manual writers, the life stage of Youth
Orman, Steve
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Coordinated State Estimation of Power Transmission and Distribution Systems

open access: yesIET Generation, Transmission &Distribution, Volume 19, Issue 1, January/December 2025.
This paper introduces a coordinated state estimation (CSE) approach designed to achieve a unique reference solution for both transmission and distribution systems. The CSE framework additionally addresses the challenges related to balanced bus requirements within distribution system state estimation. To manage the substantial complexity of the problem,
Neeraj Kumar Sharma   +2 more
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Bedlam in mind: seeing and reading historical images of madness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In this article I explore mythical Bedlam of popular imaginings. London's Bethlem Hospital was for centuries a unique institution caring for the insane and its alter ego 'Bedlam' influenced popular stereotypes of insanity. For instance, while the type
Cross, S
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Exploring Corruption Through Mathematical Modeling and Optimal Control Analysis: Examining Interactions Between Students and Employees

open access: yesJournal of Mathematics, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Corruption, defined as the misuse of authority or resources for personal gain, diverts critical resources away from essential sectors, undermining development, governance, state authority, and social cohesion. It also perpetuates other illicit activities, compounding its societal impact.
Saida Id Ouaziz   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Black Dog of Bungay: Religious Conflict and Supernatural Terror in a Suffolk Parish

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 393-408, December 2024.
In 1577 the market town of Bungay, on the Norfolk/Suffolk border, was riven by a grotesque and unusual event. During a storm, several members of the congregation were killed or injured, apparently by the appearance of the Devil in the guise of a demonic black hound.
Christian Owen
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Sir Walter Ralegh and the Art of War by Sea: Military Humanism and the Uses of the Early Modern Soldier‐Scholar

open access: yesHistory, Volume 109, Issue 388, Page 461-487, December 2024.
Abstract This article establishes the intellectual origins and underpinnings of the early modern soldier‐scholar in order to better understand the military humanist tradition within which Sir Walter Ralegh's writings on naval warfare and logistics were conceived and composed. By locating Ralegh within this tradition, the article provides a new critical
MATTHEW WOODCOCK
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