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Regional and local divergence in welfare provision in England and Wales, 1776–1815

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article uses the township‐level data on welfare expenditure and provision gathered by parish officers in England and Wales at three points between 1776 and 1815 to illuminate regional and local differences during the period. These data have been linked to geographic information system (GIS) mapping systems, facilitating the mapping of ...
John Broad
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Stubble height standards for Sierra Nevada meadows can be difficult to meet

California Agriculture, 2003
Standards for the height of herbaceous vegetation remaining in meadows at the end of the growing season have been, and continue to be, implemented on public grazing lands throughout the Sierra Nevada.
David F Lile, Kenneth W Tate, Donald L Lancaster, Betsy M Karle   +3 more
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Parental academic comparisons of siblings and adolescent well‐being: A longitudinal study from Taiwan

Family Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study investigates the relationship between parental academic comparisons of siblings and adolescents' well‐being, a topic that has not been extensively studied in literature. Background In East Asian societies, academic achievement is highly valued, and parents often compare siblings' academic performance to encourage greater ...
Wei‐Lin Chen, Jen‐Hao Chen
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Before It Was ‘New’: A Neglected History of Lived Experience–Led Criminal Justice

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing range of criminal justice initiatives are being shaped and delivered by people with lived experience, including peer mentoring, prisoner councils and policy advocacy roles. While often seen as recent innovations, we reveal a deeper, largely unacknowledged history dating back to at least the 19th century.
Gillian Buck, Matthew Rive, Annabelle Rogers   +2 more
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An Analysis of Proactive State Monitoring of Local Government Debt Issuance

Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract Debt monitoring rules are a type of fiscal rule that allows states to proactively oversee their local government borrowing. This study examines how these rules impact local borrowing costs using a mixed‐methods approach. It reviews state codes to classify debt monitoring features and creates a rigor index to measure state involvement.
Justina Jose
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Prevalence, control, and treatment of diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol in the Amish

BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care, 2020
Background The burden of diabetes and cardiovascular risk is not uniform across the USA, with much of this disparity tracking differences in socioeconomic status, cultural practices and lifestyle.
Shisi He, Kathleen A Ryan, Elizabeth A Streeten, Patrick F McArdle, Melanie Daue, Donna Trubiano, Yvonne Rohrer, Patrick Donnelly, Maryann Drolet, Sylvia Newcomer, Susan Shaub, Nancy Weitzel, Toni I Pollin, Braxton D Mitchell   +13 more
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Econometrics at the Extreme: From Quantile Regression to QFAVAR1

Journal of Economic Surveys, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 1672-1686, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper surveys quantile modelling from its theoretical origins to current advances. We organize the literature and present core econometric formulations and estimation methods for: (i) cross‐sectional quantile regression; (ii) quantile time series models and their time series properties; (iii) quantile vector autoregressions for ...
Stéphane Goutte, Konstantinos N. Konstantakis, Dimitris Konstantios, Panayotis G. Michaelides, Arsenios‐Georgios N. Prelorentzos   +4 more
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Henbit is an attainable cover crop

Agricultural &Environmental Letters, Volume 11, Issue 1, June 2026.
Henbit is a short‐season plant that grows through the winter. It seeds itself in the spring with seeds that stay dormant through the summer and germinate in the fall. Winter growth makes henbit a good cover crop for the offseason of summer cash crops. Abstract Henbit (Lamium amplexicaule L.) is a potential cover crop in the Central United States, but ...
David M. Brenner
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Makers and Markers of Distinction: Technology and Amish Differentiation in the 1935-1936 Study of Consumer Expenditures

The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2014
Plain groups differentiate themselves from the world, and from one another, by technology. It is worth recalling, however, that before the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Amish farmers and artisans used the same technologies as their ...
Steven Reschly
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A cross-cultural comparative study of language learning applications for self-regulated language learning: Insights from mainland China, the UK, and the USPractitioner notes

Ampersand
This study comprises a cross-cultural comparative study of the ways in which foreign-language learners regard and use language learning applications (LLAs) as part of their strategy of language acquisition.
Noble Lo, Yuming Chang
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