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‘Mere Amateurs’? Elementary Teachers and the Making of Scientific Authority in the British Child Study Movement

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
wiley   +1 more source

‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
wiley   +1 more source

STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
wiley   +1 more source

Divergent decoupling pathways for economic growth and NO₂ emissions in China revealed by satellite observations. [PDF]

iScience
Gu J, Chai Z, Deng R, Zhang Y, Li M, Chen L.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Estimating the Carbon Footprint of External Beam Radiotherapy: Should This Be a Concern for LMICs?

Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose This study aims to estimate the carbon footprint associated with external beam radiotherapy in a low‐ and middle‐income country (LMIC) context, specifically at the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI), and to evaluate whether sustainability should be a priority alongside treatment access in such radiation therapy settings.
Afua A. Yorke, Komakech Ignatius, John L. Schreiner, Tomas Kron   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Entropy-Guided Regime Switching for Railway Passenger Flow Forecasting: An Adaptive EA-ARIMA-Informer Framework. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Tan S, Shan X, Wei Z, Zhao S, Wu J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Network Structure and the Efficiency Gains from Mergers: Evidence from U.S. Freight Railroads

The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The trade‐off between market power and efficiency gains is central to antitrust analyses of mergers, but empirical evidence quantifying efficiencies remains limited. Using transaction‐level data from U.S. freight railroads (1985–2005), this article quantifies merger‐induced cost efficiencies, driven mainly by eliminating inter‐railroad ...
Yanyou Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Emergency Operation Scheme Generation for Urban Rail Transit Train Door Systems Using Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Huang L, Liu Z, Yu C, Zhu T, Yan B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Revisiting Ontology to Reshape Transgenerational Justice

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article develops a philosophical framework for understanding transgenerationality as a foundational concept for intergenerational justice. Drawing on social ontology and the philosophy of action, it introduces the notion of transgenerational civitas—a temporally extended community composed of past, present and future generations.
Tiziana Andina
wiley   +1 more source

Do Commercial Airline Policies for Passengers With Obesity Carry Enough Weight? [PDF]

Obes Sci Pract
McGovern T, Finucane FM, Flaherty GT.
europepmc   +1 more source