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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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A War of Words: Framing the Austrian Civil War through the Language of the Combatants

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Austrian civil war was a four‐day conflict in 1934 between the largest left‐wing paramilitary, the Schutzbund, and government forces aligned with the largest right‐wing paramilitary group, the Heimwehr. The Schutzbund was quickly and brutally suppressed through the use of overwhelming force, armoured vehicles and even artillery deployment ...
Jenna Byers
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Analysis of the water‐vapor sources in rainstorm processes in Tianjin city based on the trajectory method

Atmospheric Science Letters
Tianjin, one of the four municipalities in China, is the eastern gate of the capital city of Beijing and is of great socioeconomic importance. When rainstorms attack Tianjin, urban flooding often occurs due to the dense river network, well‐developed ...
Kaifang Shi, Qi Lang, Yuefei Huang, Jie Zhao, Haozhi Wang, Guoxin Chen, Qian Zhang, Hang Yin, Yang Su, Peng Wang   +9 more
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Scale‐invariant rainstorm hazard modelling for slopeland warning [PDF]

Meteorological Applications, 2011
AbstractPeriods characterized by heavy rain and storms can trigger Multiple Damaging Hydrological Events (MDHE), in turn developing flooding, erosion, downpours and other phenomena affecting human habitats and ecosystems. However, approaches and applications to model MDHE and weather warning under specific environmental conditions are still poor. Based
Diodato, N., Petrucci, O., Bellocchi, G.
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neonSoilFlux: An R package for continuous sensor‐based estimation of soil CO2 fluxes

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Accurate quantification of soil carbon fluxes is essential to reduce uncertainty in estimates of the terrestrial carbon sink. However, these fluxes vary over time and across ecosystem types and so, it can be difficult to estimate them accurately across large scales.
John Zobitz, Edward Ayres, Zoey Werbin, Ridwan Abdi, Natalie Ashburner‐Wright, Lillian Brown, Ryan Frink‐Sobierajski, Lajntxiag Lee, Dijonë Mehmeti, Christina Tran, Ly Xiong, Naupaka Zimmerman   +11 more
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Research progress on the equivalent-barotropic shear type Meiyu front heavyrain

暴雨灾害, 2019
Meiyu front rainstorm is the main meteorological disaster over the Yangtze River basin during summer, which has always been a hot topic and difficult problem in meteorological research.
Chunguang CUI, Bowei HU, Xiaofang WANG, Shanshan LI, Wen ZHOU   +4 more
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Remembering Independence, Debating the Nation: Ghana's National Days

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Ghana, Independence Day is the most important national day and has been annually observed since the attainment of independence in 1957. Additional national days that various military governments introduced to commemorate their ascension to power have been rather short‐lived. Other holidays like Republic Day or Founder's Day have been longer
Carola Lentz
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Helicity characteristics of cyclonic vortexes and their effect on convection in a wide‐ranging extreme rainstorm in China

Atmospheric Science Letters, 2023
On 20–22 July 2012, a severe rainstorm occurred in the Sichuan basin of Southwest China and in the Beijing area of North China. This rainstorm was related to the activities of a Tibetan Plateau vortex (TPV) and Southwest China vortex (SWCV).
Yongren Chen, Yueqing Li, Xinchao Liu, Li Zhu   +3 more
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Alternative approaches to dryland reclamation enhance vegetation cover and soil stability at a former uranium mine

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Conventional reclamation methods to recover dryland ecosystems after mineral extraction often have low success. Alternative reclamation techniques may help overcome the many challenges to establishing persistent native vegetation and stable soils.
Kathryn D. Eckhoff, Rebecca K. Mann, Seth M. Munson, Katherine Walton‐Day, Jo E. Hinck, Michael C. Duniway   +5 more
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Two adequacy conditions on a minimalist account of truth dependence

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract According to Aristotle's Categories (14b14–22), the proposition that p is true because p, but it is not the case that p because the proposition that p is true. Call this truth dependence. Truth dependence is challenging for Horwich's minimalism.
Susanna Melkonian‐Altshuler
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