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Effect of chemical admixtures on the permeability of a castable refractory

open access: yes, 1999
Effects of chemical admixtures on permeability and apparent porosity of a low- cement castable refractory were studied. The low-cement castable refractory mix consisted of 85 wt.% tabular alumina aggregate, 5 wt.% calcined alumina and 5 wt.% silica fume ...
Soto Perdomo, José María
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Women and the double standard of ambition

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Few human qualities are as morally unstable as ambition: We seem unable to decide whether to admire or condemn the desire for self‐advancement. This instability guarantees double standards—and none has been more enduring than that of women's ambition.
Geertje J. Bol
wiley   +1 more source

Thermal and thermomechanical characteristics of monolithic refractory composite matrix containing surface-modified graphite

open access: yes, 2016
The thermomechanical analysis (TMA) and thermal characteristics of carbon-containing refractory castable matrix with 20.0 wt% graphite have been compared with graphite-free high alumina based similar castable matrix.
Mukhopadhyay, S   +4 more
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Medical Archaeology and the Research Roads of Global Health in the Age of Eugenics

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article centers on an underexplored dimension of archaeology—the role of medicine and medical doctors in the ways archaeological excavations connected at times with early global health research and infrastructures. Its case studies focus on archaeology's role in the institutional networks, research routes, and racialized pathologies that ...
Franco D. Rossi
wiley   +1 more source

Methodological Concerns and Interpretation of Archaeometric Data in Recent Provenance Claims Concerning the Riace Bronzes

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent claims proposing a Syracusan provenance for the Riace Bronzes rely on selective petrographic, geochemical, and taphonomic evidence that raises crucial methodological questions. This paper critically reassesses the analytical premises and inferential logic underlying these claims, showing that they bypass established protocols in ceramic
Massimo Vidale, Mario Micheli
wiley   +1 more source

Global Value Chain Participation and Inequality in Agro‐food Industries in the Global South

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the 1990s, global value chains have been a central vehicle for development strategies in Global South countries, driving their integration into the global economy. Much critical scholarship has highlighted the adverse social and environmental costs, the asymmetries of power in inter‐firm relations, and the unfair distribution of benefits
Stefano Ponte, Juliane Lang
wiley   +1 more source

90 Day Fiancé: Presentations of Status Exchange on the International Marriage Market

open access: yesFamily Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study examines power and status, as constructed by producers on the reality television show 90 Day Fiancé, that comes from being a US citizen on the international marriage market. We investigate what show producers present each partner as offering the other and what this suggests about gender and power in cross‐national ...
Andrea Laurent‐Simpson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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