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Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
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Riding Through Norms: Creating and Performing Athletic Femininity at American Ladies’ Equestrian Exhibitions, 1850–1890

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century, American agricultural fairs often featured ladies’ equestrian exhibitions. At these events, women constructed an athletic femininity based on skill and competitiveness that challenged traditional ideals of womanhood.
Gabrielle McCoy
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the Presence, Pattern, and Environmental Correlates of Seasonal Skin Thickening in Anurans

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Histological sections, like that of the ventral pectoral skin of Lithobates pipiens, were measured to assess variation in skin thickness throughout the year in three North American anuran species. After correcting for individual body size, we test whether skin thickness changes throughout the year and which factors (environment or life history) explain
Collin S. VanBuren, Lily K. Bentley, David B. Norman, Nadia B. Fröbisch   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Enhanced Integrated Reporting Framework: Insights From a Critical Analysis of the Recent Research Literature

Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Given recent developments in the corporate reporting regulatory landscape, we provide a more comprehensive understanding of Integrated Reporting (IR) evolution and propose an enhanced version of the IR Framework. This enhanced framework incorporates new narratives and conceptualizations, introducing innovative perspectives that challenge and ...
Valentina Beretta, Chiara Demartini, Charl de Villiers   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Burrow Persistence and Spatial Distribution of Federally and State‐Protected Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) Populations in Southwest Alabama

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
The gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus), a keystone species and ecosystem engineer, has declined by ~80% over the past century due to primarily habitat loss. In a 28‐year resurvey of federally protected Mobile County and state‐protected Baldwin County, we found tortoise populations persisted at ~59% and ~31% of sites, respectively, with significant ...
Robin B. Lloyd Jr., Jeremiah A. Henning, Steven R. Schultze, David H. Nelson, Adam D. Chupp   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dam Failure and Reconstruction in the Guadalupe Valley Lakes Region of Central Texas

Texas Water Journal
Along a segment of the Guadalupe River in Central Texas, multiple historic dams owned and operated by the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority have failed.
Andrew Adams, Melinda Villagran, Robert Mace   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

What are the carbon services from cover‐crop adoption worth from farmers' perspective?

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We derive shadow prices of carbon services provided by cover crops relative to non‐cover‐crop agricultural practices, accounting for carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We model the agricultural technology by integrating crop production, carbon sequestration, and GHG emissions.
Saurav Raj Kunwar, Robert G. Chambers, Laura F. Gentry, Teresa Serra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical Need and Research Investment for Liver Cancer in Australia

Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, EarlyView.
Liver cancer incidence and mortality rates have been rising in comparison to other common cancers, but research funding has not been commensurate. ABSTRACT Aim This study aims to better understand factors driving the rising burden and costs of primary liver cancer (PLC) in Australia, identify key epidemiological trends, and ascertain investment in PLC ...
Romario Nguyen, Fatema Safri, Ankur Sharma, Jessica Howell, Stuart K. Roberts, Simone I. Strasser, Amany Zekry, Alan Wigg, Leon A. Adams, Michael Wallace, Golo Ahlenstiel, Eleonora Feletto, Karen Canfell, Tracey O'Brien, Jacob George, Liang Qiao   +15 more
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Lady Anne Kerr: From the Rise of International Conference Interpreting to the Whitlam Dismissal

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
Before Anne Robson (née Taggart) became the second Lady Kerr upon marrying governor‐general John Kerr in 1975, she had an international career of some 30 years working as a French to English interpreter and consultant at over 30 national and international conferences and became the first Australian elected to the International Association of Conference
Alexis Bergantz
wiley   +1 more source