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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aged care work is physically and emotionally demanding. Workers can feel disempowered, vulnerable and at increased risk of experiencing work‐related stress. This in turn can result in sub‐optimal care and staff shortages. This study aimed to investigate what provisions exist within Australia's strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards to ...
Sharon Stoddart +11 more
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The Political Symbolism of Ants and Bees in Old Norse Sources
Collegium Medievale, 2020 In this article I discuss the political themes attached to the eusocial creatures, specifically ants and bees, in Old Norse sources. I consider the situation of Old Norse as a transnational literature, encompassing one country that lacked ants and bees ...
Richard Cole
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Redescription of the Triassic cynodont Cistecynodon parvus and reassessment of its phylogeny
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Cynodontia is an important subclade of Therapsida that first occurred in the late Permian. It includes extinct subclades which are the non‐mammaliaform cynodonts and Mammaliaformes, with the latter ultimately giving rise to crown mammals. The systematics of non‐mammaliaform cynodonts has been extensively studied and is relatively well‐resolved,
Erin S. Lund +4 more
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What do they talk about “in fair words” in Old Norse-Icelandic literature?
ШагиThe paper analyses the use of the paroemia at mæla fagrt ok hyggja flátt (to speak fairly and to think falsely) in the Old Norse-Icelandic literary corpus, focusing both on the paroemia and its derivative — the representation of the characters’ eloquence
D. S. Glebova
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From Youth to Age through Old English Poetry (with Old Norse Parallels)
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2001 It has been argued that the most pre-eminent age of man among the Anglo-Saxons was senectus. This view is based on the fact that many contemporary texts emphasize the wisdom associated with age while ignoring the physical deterioration that it involves.
Jordi Sánchez Martí
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Human evolution and the obstetrical dilemma: The pelvic floor hypothesis
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Human childbirth is mechanically difficult because a large‐headed, broad‐shouldered fetus must pass through a comparatively narrow, twisted bony birth canal. Traditional explanations of this “obstetrical dilemma” emphasize the role of bipedal locomotion in inhibiting the evolution of a wider, more spacious pelvis.
Barbara Fischer, Ekaterina Stansfield
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Fragments of the past: how to study old Norse religion
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1999 The state of the sources of the Old Norse religions presents a great problem. Most of them were written down two hundred or even three hundred years after the Christianization of the North, based on an oral tradition going back to the pre-Christian ages.
Britt-Mari Näsström
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Postnatal craniomandibular growth in Harbor seals (Phoca vitulina vitulina)
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Postnatal ontogeny in Harbor seals (Phoca vitulina vitulina). Cranium and mandible grow rapidly until 5 years of age, followed by a deceleration and finally a stagnation. Abstract As secondarily aquatic carnivores, seals display several phenotypic differences compared to their terrestrial relatives.
Elisabeth Steinbach +2 more
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Towards Standards in Digital Editions of Old Norse Prose
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries PublicationsThis paper provides an overview over the authors ongoing PhD-research project at the University of Oslo, which aims to contribute to ongoing efforts to transition the field of Old Norse philology into the age of digital humanities by providing a ...
Sebastian Pohland
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The history of Nazi German extermination camps has, until recently, relied primarily on eyewitness testimony. Very few official documents detailing the facilities survived the war due to the special operation ‘Sonderaktion 1005’, dedicated to hiding their existence and extent.
Sebastian Różycki +4 more
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