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Data-driven prediction of micro-piled raft load-settlement using machine learning and Monte Carlo simulation. [PDF]

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El Gendy M.
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Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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Evolutionary-based framework for practical prediction of offshore wind turbine natural frequency considering soil-structure interaction. [PDF]

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Abbasi S, Pirouz M, Masoodi AR.
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False kings and imagined protestants: why schismogenesis does not explain variation in inequality among Indigenous societies of the Pacific Coast Faux rois et protestants imaginaires: pourquoi la schismogenèse n'explique pas les variations des inégalités parmi les sociétés autochtones de la côte pacifique nord‐américaine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Indigenous societies along the temperate Pacific coast of North America embody diverse cultural institutions. This variation is conventionally classified into two distinct cultural areas: the Northwest Coast (NWC) and California (CAL). Discussion of the environmental, material, social, and ideological variation in these societies has a long and ...
Eric Alden Smith, Brian F. Codding
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Numerical study on the effect of pile shape and loading direction on the lateral response of displacement pile in sand. [PDF]

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Liu W, Li H, Weng X, Wang Z, Chen Q, Lei Y, Li X, Xiang H, Yuan B, Hu W, Xu X, Feng Y.   +11 more
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Shared Vocabulary between Meiteilon and Tai Varieties and Pre‐Modern Language Contact on the Indo‐Myanmar Border1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines lexical and phonological evidence for language contact between Old and modern Meiteilon (Manipuri) and Tai varieties, identifying loanwords relating to domestic life, trade and literary culture. Comparative data from Shan dialects and Old Meiteilon manuscripts such as the Cheitharon Kumpapa are employed in contextualising
Josiah Medin
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Bearing capacity mechanism of vibro-replacement stone columns in coral sand with particle breakage. [PDF]

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Ye X, Pan Z, Liu F, Tang H, Ji Z, Zhao W, Zhao X.   +6 more
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Behind the Canvas Curtain: Gender, Visibility, and Spectacle in the 1956 Semenyih Incident in the Malayan Emergency

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the 1956 Semenyih strip–search scandal in British colonial Malaya during the Malayan Emergency, a counterinsurgency campaign shaped by Cold War politics in Southeast Asia, to explore how non‐elite Chinese women navigated surveillance, humiliation, and limited opportunities to have their grievances recognized.
Alison Fong
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Numerical analysis of bearing capacity of winged helical anchor in clayed soil. [PDF]

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Hao D, Zhang Y, Chen Y, Chen R, Kong G, Wu K, Han Y.   +6 more
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Rylands v Fletcher Redux: Rubis Bahamas Ltd v Russell

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
The decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Rubis Bahamas Ltd v Russell is the most significant development in the law of Rylands v Fletcher for decades. Rejecting the view that the rule is merely a sub‐species of private nuisance, the Committee reconstructed it as an independent rule of strict liability governing harm caused by ...
Marco Cappelletti
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