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Small, EarlyView.The silver nanoparticle morphologies are identified thanks to ab initio models, including original families of defects and complex motifs, compared to measurements provided at targeted sizes (309, 561, 742, and 923 atoms). The crossings between structures to within a few atoms have been predicted due to very accurate computational conditions, which are
Nathalie Tarrat, David Loffreda
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how online tutoring platforms (OTPs) have facilitated new forms of (im)mobility—and discourses of (im)mobility—among online English tutors. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with online tutors, the article critically interrogates OTPs' primary selling point: that online tutors can work “anytime, anywhere.” While OTPs ...
Nate Ming Curran
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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Botanical imaginary of indigeneity and rhizomatic sustainability in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
Open Cultural StudiesThis article explores a botanical imaginary in A Mercy (2008), the ninth narrative by African American writer and critic Toni Morrison. Arguably, A Mercy features the botanical design of the rhizome to activate a revisionary model of sustainability.
Atieh Majda, Ahmad Ula
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The Sedanthropocene: Nomadism, Ecology, Hypernormalization: Toward Reimagining the Holocene
Societies, 2019 The various (s)cenes of Anthropocene discourse are attempts to conceptualize the problem of anthropogenic global warming and to better understand the problem with a view to possible solutions. This paper explores, in a series of theoretic vignettes, ways
David Selsky
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How does the ability to weather insecurity give some an upper‐hand over others? This paper examines the interrelationship between housing and labour market precarity among middle class young professionals. Drawing on interviews with residents of co‐living schemes—for‐profit shared housing where tenants are on temporary rental contracts—it ...
Tim White
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Investigating and identifying the granary architecture in the living of Zagros Semi Nomadic people in Ilam Province [PDF]
مسکن و محیط روستا, 2018 From beginning of its presence on the earth, human has tried to exploit from the nature to provide his needs. Nomadism is one of the most primitive environmental and livelihood practices which has been continued since the distant pasts for exploiting ...
Ebrahim Moradi +2 more
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer +11 more
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STATE FORMATIONS IN ANCIENT TURKIC STEPPE SOCIETIES
Археология евразийских степейThe Turks are one of the oldest nations of the world, and there is evidence that they had established states very early in their history. The masses of the Turks living a nomadic life in the steppes had formed political structures diff erent from the ...
Kürşat Yıldırım +1 more
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between 2018 and 2021, the Identification and Documentation of Immovable Heritage Assets (IDIHA) Project recorded over 19,000 rock art panels in the AlUla (al‐‘Ulā) region of north‐western Saudi Arabia. This study presents a chronological assessment of the corpus, drawing on superimpositions, datable motifs, inscriptions, and varnish formation,
Maria Guagnin +3 more
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