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Burns OpenResidential fires are a devastating and stressful life event. The high number of residential fires per year and significant associated stressors impacts all aspects of daily life.
Gregory Chown
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What Matters Most at the End-of-Life for Chinese Americans?
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 2018 Background: To provide optimal end-of-life (EOL) care in the Chinese American population, we need to have a better understanding of what matters most at EOL from their perspective.
Mei Ching Lee PhD, MS, RN, CHPN +2 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article uses rare and detailed data on matriculants to the University of Oxford during the middle decades of the twentieth century as a prism through which to consider gendered processes of recruitment to elite institutions. The article makes four key claims. First, the broader shifts in middle‐class women's labour market participation in
Eve Worth, Naomi Muggleton, Aaron Reeves
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023 Dairy cows convert low-quality feedstuffs unsuitable for human consumption into milk, a high-quality protein source for humans. Even under grazing conditions of well-managed pastures, dietary energy limits the efficiency of animal production ...
Jonas de Souza +2 more
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Where's the beef? The feminisation of weight‐loss dieting in Britain and Scandinavia c.1890–1925
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract Representations of the slim body have traditionally been at the centre of scholarly interest in dieting culture, whereas food often remains a shadowy presence compared with more persistent themes of body discipline, slenderness and anti‐fat messages.
Emma Hilborn
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Trees, Forests and PeopleThis is the first paper to intensively examine the history of piñon nuts, the seeds of the piñon pine (Pinus edulis), which Indigenous Americans have harvested in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest for millennia.
Christopher H. Briand
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Churchill and Germany: A ‘Special’ Relationship
History, EarlyView.Abstract No other country defined the trajectory of Churchill's political career more than Germany, a country of which he had little direct knowledge but which he either sought to emulate, accommodate or oppose throughout his time in politics. This article traces Churchill's relationship with Germany from his entry into politics at the beginning of the
T. G. Otte
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Rome’s Christian Empress: Galla Placidia Rules at the Twilight of the Empire.
Atlantis, 2017 Book Under Review Salisbury, Joyce E. 2015. Rome’s Christian Empress: Galla Placidia Rules at the Twilight of the Empire. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press.
Trusha Dash
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
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Artificial Organs, EarlyView.Invasive and non‐invasive functional electrical stimulation (FES) is a well‐established method to partially restore function after paralysis and deliver sensory feedback after amputation. This work summarizes the current state‐of‐the‐art of FES for restoring function, supporting rehabilitation therapy, and assistive devices.
Thomas Stieglitz +3 more
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