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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
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Stress-strain evaluation of steel-strapped high-strength concrete with modified self-regulating end clips

, 2017
High-strength concrete (HSC) is increasingly used in columns of building all over the world. Although it offers superior properties, it is relatively a brittle material.
Ahmad Beng Hong Kueh, Kueh, Ahmad Beng Hong, Ma, Chau Khun, Omar, Wahid, Abdullah Zawawi Awang, Chee-Loong Chin, Chee, Loong Chin, Awang, Abdullah Zawawi, Chau-Khun Ma, Wahid Omar   +9 more
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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Impact of five different medial patellofemoral ligament-reconstruction strategies and three different graft pre-tensioning states on the mean patellofemoral contact pressure: a biomechanical study on human cadaver knees

Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics, 2018
Background The medial patellofemoral ligament (MPFL) is the main stabiliser of the patella and thus mostly reconstructed in the surgical treatment of patellofemoral dislocation.
Daniel Dornacher, Sabine Lippacher, Manfred Nelitz, Heiko Reichel, Anita Ignatius, Lutz Dürselen, Andreas Martin Seitz   +6 more
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The EU's Indo‐Pacific Strategy: Perspectives From Australia

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines perceptions in Australia of the European Union's Indo‐Pacific Strategy, drawing on interviews conducted with government officials, experts and civil society actors. The EU is regarded positively as a friend and partner of Australia and equally committed to the maintenance of the rules‐based international order. Conversely,
Anne McNaughton, Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams, Bruce Wilson, Hector Samuel Martinez Sanchez‐Mateos, Richard G. Whitman   +4 more
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Condition assessment of pre-tensioning prestressed concrete sleepers distressed by internal swelling reactions (ISR)

Cement
Concrete sleepers worldwide have been affected by internal swelling reactions (ISR), primarily alkali-silica reaction (ASR) and internal sulfate attack (ISA).
R. Medeiros, D.J. De Souza, L.F.M. Sanchez, A.C. Santos   +3 more
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The Anthropocene and the End of Nuclear Disaster: Normalizing the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article places the concept of disaster in critical dialogue with that of the Anthropocene, which introduces new imaginaries that negatively affect the governance of crises like nuclear accidents. I argue that tropes surrounding the Anthropocene can depict certain events as apocalyptic calamities while also portraying other events as mere “
Maxime Polleri
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Foundation, and also method for its production

, 2001
Foundation, and method for the production of such a foundation. It is proposed that it be based on prefabricated concrete elements. The elements consist of base elements (2) and end elements (4).
Katsma, H., Katsma, H. (author)
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Antinomies of Nativism: Understanding Decoloniality Theory's Affinities with the Global Far Right

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the peculiar conjuncture of decolonial theory and contemporary far‐right ideology. It argues that their shared fixation on the dualism of native and settler is immanent to the development of advanced capitalism, particularly the sharpening of its contradictory tendency to undermine labour as the source of value, and to ...
Aylin Bademsoy, Neil Larsen
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‘Elbow grease and yellow soap’: Housework time in working‐class households in late‐nineteenth and early twentieth‐century Britain

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Housework is central to feminist calls for recognition of women's work, economic histories explaining the sexual division of labour, and claims regarding the progressive role of scientific knowledge. Yet little is known about the time it actually took. We address this lacuna.
Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries
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