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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
wiley   +1 more source

Development of sustainable natural waste-reinforced epoxy composites for potential building applications. [PDF]

RSC Adv
Abas FO, Abass RU, Azeez Batcha A, Al-Sarraf MA, Bachtiar D, Siregar JP, Cionita T, Palanisamy S, Azizjanov K, Sundararajan K, Alagarsamy A, Belay M.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
wiley   +1 more source

A Constrained Layer Damping Perspective on Floating Floor Systems for Low-Frequency Impact Noise Control. [PDF]

Polymers (Basel)
Jiao Y, Xu J, Feng Y, Suo H, Zhang Y, Nan Y, Wang X, Liu D, Feng Y, Si P.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable Lignocellulosic Composites Derived from Recycled Paper and Cardboard for Building Applications. [PDF]

Polymers (Basel)
Mazaherifar MH, Brenci LM, Timar MC, Zeleniuc O, Guiman MV, Coșereanu C.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Sound Insulation Performance of Facades and Facade Elements.

The Journal of the INCE of Japan, 1997
openaire   +1 more source

Twenty‐First Century Butlers and the New Spirit of Service

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT More than 50 years ago, Lewis Coser argued that the “servant” had become obsolete, claiming that such a “premodern” occupation could not function within modernity without religious legitimations. However, with parts of the contemporary service sector exhibiting the very characteristics that Coser viewed as “premodern”—especially within ...
Bryan Boyle
wiley   +1 more source

Design of Trabecular Bone-Inspired Mechano-Acoustic Coupling Porous Structures. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Lin Y, Zhang J, Zhang C, Liu R, Yu Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Contrasting Responses of Rodents With Different Habitat Associations to Rapid Urbanization in a Chinese Megacity

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Rapid urbanization reshaped rodent populations, morphology, and gut microbiota along an urban–rural gradient. The synanthropic rat (Rattus norvegicus) increased in abundance toward the urban core and exhibited reduced ear and tail length, whereas the farmland mouse (Apodemus agrarius) and woodland rat (Niviventer confucianus) declined.
Chao Zhang, Yingqun Feng, Shaoya Wang, Tiantian Xia, Jing Chen, Zekai Ren, Dan Yang, Hongyu Niu, Hongmao Zhang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source