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“Lovelies on Wheels”: The Politics of Miss Wheelchair America, 1972–1977
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the Miss Wheelchair America pageant in the 1970s as a cultural and political space that produced a specific message about the intersections of womanhood, disability, and citizenship. The pageant elevated contestants who performed normative femininity, beauty, heterosexuality, and whiteness, while narratively framing ...
Moira Armstrong
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Adding Shocks to a Prospective Mortality Model
RisksThis work proposes a simple model to take into account the annual volatility of the mortality level observed on the scale of a country like France in the construction of prospective mortality tables.
Frédéric Planchet +1 more
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Archiving the History of Environmentalism: Insights from Academia and Practice
History, EarlyView.Abstract This Forum considers the current state of archiving for the environmental movement at local, national and international levels. It responds to a gap that researchers of environmentalism have long been aware of, but one that is poorly understood from the perspective of records management and collections development practice.
Henry Irving +7 more
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The social life of money for children
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To demonstrate the presence of peritoneal fluid (PF)‐derived small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) in endometriosis and control samples, to characterise their protein content and to define endometriosis‐specific biomarkers within the sEV proteome. Design Case–control experimental study. Setting Academic endometriosis centre.
Hannah M. Nazri +8 more
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Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores responses to major trade policy shocks in the soybean futures market in 2025. Using an event‐study framework, we analyse short‐run movements in soybean futures prices, historical volatility, implied volatility and speculative positioning around three major policy shocks: the U.S.
Yasin Yildirim, Sandro Steinbach
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Lee-Carter modelis Baltijos šalims
, 2016 Darbe nagrinėjamas Lee-Carter modelis mirtingumui prognozuoti. Tiriamos modelio liekanos bei pateikiamos logaritminės mirtingumo normos prognozės Lietuvai, Latvijai ir Estijai. Palyginamas prognozės tikslumas ir vidutinė likusio gyvenimo trukmė.
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Demographic Research, 2011 Using the age- and sex-specific data of 14 developed countries, we compare the point and interval forecast accuracy and bias of ten principal component methods for forecasting mortality rates and life expectancy.
Han Lin Shang +2 more
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Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract To mitigate the consequences of school punishment, we must move from documenting the school‐to‐prison pipeline (STPP) toward understanding how punishment increases criminal legal system involvement. Beyond impacting academic performance, punishment may encourage disengagement from school, teachers, and peers; delinquency; and secondary ...
Stephanie Ann Wiley +2 more
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