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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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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
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WHITE MATTER MATTERS: New Approach to the Brain's Hidden Half Using Circulating Oligodendrocyte-Derived Extracellular Vesicles. [PDF]
CellsMitsuhashi M +10 more
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
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Mechanisms of enhanced or impaired DNA target selectivity driven by protein dimerization. [PDF]
PNAS NexusSang M, Au G, Johnson ME.
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denim: An R package for deterministic compartmental models with flexible dwell‐time distributions
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.Abstract Compartmental models are widely used for dynamical systems where states are discrete, such as in infectious disease epidemiology with the so‐called Susceptible‐Infectious‐Recovered (SIR) framework. For mathematical simplicity, rates of transition between compartments are generally assumed to be independent of the dwell time (or secondary ...
Thinh Phuc Ong +3 more
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Exact ODE Framework for Classical and Quantum Corrections for the Lennard-Jones Second Virial Coefficient. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Zhao Z +6 more
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Local government procurement costs and Community Wealth Building Initiatives in England
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.Abstract We examine whether procuring locally leads to higher costs. Our study is motivated by the Community Wealth Building Initiatives adopted by Preston City Council in England in which social value to the local economy is considered in the procurement process.
Rubab Ahmed +4 more
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