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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
wiley   +1 more source

Image-Analysis-Based Validation of the Mathematical Framework for the Representation of the Travel of an Accelerometer-Based Texture Testing Device. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Paulsen H, Gföhler M, Schramel JP, Peham C.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Entwined Liberations: North Korean Democratic Women's Union and Third World Internationalism, 1945–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
wiley   +1 more source

Performance evaluation and environmental sustainability assessment of ferrock-infused concrete. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Vijayan DS, Swamy KR, Jayaseelan R, Devarajan P.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
wiley   +1 more source

THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Performance Variations in Key Components of CRTS I Slab Ballastless Track on Structural Response Following Slab-Replacement Operations. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Wu W, Lu H, He Y, Xia H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Topic for Concrete Strength Presumption using Rebound Hammer-Comparison between Rebound Numbers using Various Hammers and Proposal of Requesting Method for Relationship between Rebound Numbers and Compressive Strength-

Concrete Journal, 2010
openaire   +2 more sources

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Delineating homogeneous zones for rock joint wall mechanical properties in open-pit mine slope based on a multi-indicator stacked generalization model. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Yu X, Zheng A, Ye J, Qin J, An P, Wang R.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source