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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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How Long Do Wealth Shocks Persist? Less Than Three Generations in England, 1700–2026
ABSTRACT What happens across generations to wealth shocks? Do they endure and even magnify, or do they dissipate? By implication, how much modern wealth is attributable to events before 1900? This paper uses random shocks to family size in England before 1880 that created wealth shocks for the children to measure the persistence of wealth shocks ...
Gregory Clark, Neil Cummins
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ABSTRACT Autosomal recessive HARS1‐related disorder (originally described as Usher syndrome type 3B) caused by a homozygous Y454S variant in the histidyl‐tRNA synthetase gene (HARS1) is characterized by progressive sensorineural hearing and vision loss and respiratory deterioration with risk for sudden death following febrile illnesses.
Victoria Mok Siu +23 more
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This paper has two main goals. The first is to review the context for studying infant mortality, which includes a review of the theoretical framework, the covariates used to examine mortality over the first 60 months of life, and the major findings of ...
Krzysztof Tymicki
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ABSTRACT This article examines how medium‐term temporary dwellers—who have been living in a city for months or a few years without planning to settle in the long term—impact upon intra‐urban residential mobility and sociospatial inequalities in Southern European contexts.
Barbara Brollo
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The parish registers of Harewood, Co. York.
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Harewood, Eng. (Parish) +1 more
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Abstract Foreign entrants may threaten and, at the same time, present local companies with opportunities for favourable spillovers. Building on the awareness‐motivation‐capability framework, this paper aims to provide empirical evidence for a positive co‐location or spatial proximity effect of foreign presence on local peer companies’ exports.
Pierre‐Xavier Meschi +2 more
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The registers of the parish church of Lancaster; baptisms, burials, and marriages.
"The Lancashire Parish Register Society; a retrospect of fifty years [by E. B. Leech]": v. 3, p. v-xii.Vol. 2 printed by J. B. Peace; v. 3 has imprint: Preston, Printed for the Lancashire Parish Register Society by R. Seed.[v.
Flitcroft, J. +3 more
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ABSTRACT The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non‐governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACPO) responded to women's changing roles and ...
Anna Cant
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The registers of the parish of Wigan in the county of Lancaster.
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Wigan, Eng. (Parish)
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