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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.The consumption of human food subsidies influences ecological processes, and can affect individual behavior and fitness with population level changes in abundance and distribution. American black bears Ursus americanus often consume human food subsidies, which have been correlated with increased bear body size, age‐specific fertility and mortality ...
Isabel I. Field +4 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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Afro-Ásia, 2017 As militâncias brasileiras organizadas no período final da ditadura civil militar apontam líderes estadunidenses como referências e, erroneamente, essa influência foi compreendida, por alguns, como mera cópia do modelo.
Mírian C. M. Garrido
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
History, EarlyView.Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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The Explanatory Indispensability of Memory Traces [PDF]
, 2020 During the first half of the twentieth century, many philosophers of memory opposed the postulation of memory traces based on the claim that a satisfactory account of remembering need not include references to causal processes involved in recollection ...
De Brigard, Felipe
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School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?
History, EarlyView.Abstract The 1870 Elementary Education Act enabled the creation of school boards in England and Wales. Members were directly elected by the cumulative vote. This method gave each individual voter as many votes as there were seats on a school board, in some cases up to fifteen.
ED GREEN
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, 2012 Shakespeare and the Jews (James Shapiro) (Reviewed by Suzanne Gossett) Climate and Literature: Reflections of Enviroment (Ed.Janet Pérez and Wendell Aycock) (Reviewed by Alvin Snider) Disturbing Pleasures: Learning Popular Culture (Henry A Giroux) Making
Editors, Criticism
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Does Inequality Blur Class Lines? Meritocratic Attitudes in Comparative Perspective
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars of inequality generally find that lower‐class individuals are more skeptical of meritocratic narratives that link economic success to individual work effort. However, past research has yielded inconclusive findings about how economic inequality affects meritocratic attitudes across different class groups.
Roshan K. Pandian, Ronald Kwon
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Propaganda as a Form of Manipulation [PDF]
Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 2016 The article aims to define the term "propaganda", its external features, techniques and methods of conveying the message. According to the specialist Malcolm X, "the media's the most powerful entity on Earth.
Alexandra Iorgulescu
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, 2019 From time to time philosophers and scientists have made sensational, provocative claims that certain things do not exist or never happen that, in everyday life, we unquestioningly take for granted as existing or happening.
Lynch, Kevin
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