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How weather got its words: a history of meteorological English – Part 1: Old English to the Age of Discovery

open access: yesWeather, EarlyView.
The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary among its peers in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the diverse origins of the words we use. In this two‐part paper, we will explore these origins, including the Pontic‐Caspian steppe, the British Empire, latinophone scientists and a TV show. We
Kieran M. R. Hunt
wiley   +1 more source

The immune‐related, TGA1 redox‐switch: to be or not to be?

open access: yes, 2020
New Phytologist, EarlyView.
Yuan Li, Gary J. Loake
wiley   +1 more source

Acute compartment syndrome of the anterior compartment of the arm following a traumatic distal biceps rupture with rupture of a high-take off radial artery: A case report

open access: yesJournal of Orthopaedic Reports
Background: Acute compartment syndrome of the upper arm is a rare occurrence and is recorded sparsely in the literature. There are a handful documented cases of this occurring in the setting of a distal biceps tendon rupture.
Cheuk Bun Tse   +1 more
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Citizen Engagement for Co-Creating Low Carbon Smart Cities: Practical Lessons from Nottingham City Council in the UK

open access: yesEnergies, 2020
Cities constitute three quarters of global energy consumption and the built environment is responsible for significant use of final energy (62%) and greenhouse gas emissions (55%).
Sam Preston   +2 more
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‘I really like being on the floor, because I spend all the time in my chair’: Children with disabilities' experiences of physical activity in school

open access: yesBritish Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Children with multiple disabilities often encounter significant barriers to participating in physical activity, impacting not only their physical health but also their overall experience in school. This study places the voices of four children at the centre of their own research, exploring their lived experiences of participating in physical ...
Katherine Gulliver   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How I perform total knee arthroplasty: functional alignment in practice

open access: yesJournal of Joint Surgery and Research
Background: Alignment has traditionally been central to total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Mechanical alignment (MA) offers reproducibility and long-term durability, whereas kinematic alignment (KA) seeks to restore native anatomy.
Simon W. Young
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Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
wiley   +1 more source

Adherence to WHO 2010 Recommendations in Relation to Semen Analysis Reports in the Laboratories of West Bengal

open access: yesFertility & Reproduction, 2019
Background: In 2010, The World Health Organization (WHO) suggested the standards of reporting of semen analysis and the reference values. We tried to determine the adherence to the WHO 2010 standard regarding semen analysis among the laboratories of West
Sujoy Dasgupta
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
wiley   +1 more source

CLIL Pedagogy. Textual Heterogeneity in CLIL Texts

open access: yesRATE Issues, 2020
A good teacher will always be open to new methods and from my perspective undestanding culturally and integrating a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) pedagogy will defintitely develop learners’intercultural undestanding.It is ...
Adina-Ilioara Cherecheș
doaj  

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