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Beyond the Rebel ‘Territorial Trap’: Governing Armed Sovereign Formations in Eastern Myanmar

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Territorial control is a central concept in the study of civil wars and rebel governance. However, scholars often fall into a ‘territorial trap’, assuming that territorial control is either an outcome of or a precondition for armed governance. Based on immersive fieldwork in eastern Myanmar, this article traces how different spatial orderings ...
Tony Neil, Saw Day Chit Htoo
wiley   +1 more source

Heat acclimation prevents neurobehavioral and physiological disorders in mice exposed to chronic aircraft noise. [PDF]

open access: yesPhysiol Rep
Zhang K   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Escaping Isn't for Everyone’: Kurdish Smugglers’ Navigational Tactics at Checkpoints in Iran

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how Kurdish smugglers navigate state and insurgent checkpoints in the borderlands of western Iran. Drawing on ethnographic research, it analyses two key navigational tactics: persin, a form of negotiated passage involving transaction, recognition and the contingent toleration of authority; and jimi, rendered here as ...
Peyman Zinati
wiley   +1 more source

A mobile phone application for the prevention of type 2 diabetes in Malaysian women with gestational diabetes mellitus (MYGODDESS): A feasibility randomised controlled trial

open access: yesDiabetic Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Aims The prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in Malaysia is estimated at 9–18%. Although GDM is associated with increased and potentially modifiable risk of developing type 2 diabetes, the effectiveness of diabetes prevention interventions (DPI) post‐GDM in this setting is unclear.
Madeleine Benton   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Severe burns complicated by EDKA, CDI, and NTIS: A case report and literature review. [PDF]

open access: yesMedicine (Baltimore)
Yan T   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Strategic materials and state capacity in Renaissance Italy. The economic policies of ‘Roman saltpetre’ procurement

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
wiley   +1 more source

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