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New Goods and New Habits: Cleanliness as a Class Marker and the Making of the Peasant Homemaker, Sweden 1850–1910

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines what cleanliness, that is, hygiene and tidiness, meant for landowning farm households in the county of Härjedalen in the inland of northern Sweden from the 1860s to the 1910s. The period is characterised by a growing understanding of bacteria and of how infectious diseases could be prevented through improved hygiene ...
Marie Ulväng
wiley   +1 more source

Upcycling of regular wood trunks and logs using wave function collapse (WFC), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) technologies for circular design. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Luo J, Yu B, Jiang Y, Fingrut A, Holloway A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Folklore Studies, Fieldwork and the Making of a Domestic Anthropology in Fin‐de‐Siècle Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article follows the ‘communities of knowledge‐making’ that formed around folklore collection at the end of the nineteenth century. Often regarded as eccentric or marginal figures in the history of human science, these collectors in fact engaged in lively and sophisticated discussions about the methodologies needed to study the mental ...
HARRY PARKER
wiley   +1 more source

First record of the complete chloroplast genome of the Sri Lankan endemic species, <i>Artocarpus nobilis</i> Thwaites (Moraceae). [PDF]

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour
Khalingarajah H, Thavarajah P, Zhang Z, Rochelin Z, Konare MA, Ban GF, Konkobo FA, Manjang L, Lee SY.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The ‘Great Frost’ of 1708–9 in Britain and the Condescensions of Posterity

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the ‘great frost’ of 1709 and its impact on economic life in Britain, challenging a popular view that, based on gross domestic product (GDP) estimates, it was catastrophic. It shows that the annual GDP figures for the period have such wide error margins that they cannot establish the scale of the disruption; that the ...
Julian Hoppit
wiley   +1 more source

Policy decisions matter: Cessation of logging benefits 34 threatened species in Victoria, Australia. [PDF]

PLoS One
Ashman KR, Ward M, Dickman CR, Harley D, Valentine L, Woinarski J, Marsh JR, Jolly CJ, Driscoll DA, Bowd E, Watchorn DJ, Clemann N, Lindenmayer DB.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

PLACE‐FRAMING URBANITY: The Case of Kalasatama, Helsinki

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Narratives, visuality and symbolic representations are increasingly important in contemporary urban planning and development. This article seeks to understand how urbanity, one of the key goals of Helsinki's recent planning, has been constructed in the Kalasatama regeneration area. The construction of urban image and identity is viewed as soft
Tuomas Ilmavirta
wiley   +1 more source

Implementation of Paper-Based Materials in Emergency Architecture: Research and Development of Transportable Emergency Cardboard Houses. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Łątka JF, Jasiołek A, Pawłosik D, Karolak A, Niewiadomski P, Noszczyk P, Jörgen A, Sołowiej P.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

REPRODUCING OPERATIONAL LANDSCAPES: The Rock Mining for Indonesia's New Capital City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Indonesia's new capital city is designed to become a green and sustainable city. In this article, we examine the (un)sustainability of the process through which the city is coming into being. Using the sociospatial theory of planetary urbanization, we trace the dialectical relationship between the new city and sites beyond it to show how ...
Bosman Batubara, Kei Otsuki, Femke Van Noorloos, Michelle Kooy, Annelies Zoomers   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source