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Hearing God and Debating Liberty: Sound and Methodism in England during the Age of the French Revolution

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This essay examines the role of sound in accounts of Methodism in England during the era of the French Revolution. Drawing on religious writings and political tracts, it explores how the conflict between loyalism and radicalism in the 1790s shaped perceptions of the sonic aspects of Methodist piety among both supporters and opponents of the movement ...
Peter Denney
wiley   +1 more source

Was Einhard a widower?

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
wiley   +1 more source

A cross-sectional study of the association between plant-based diet indices and kidney stones among Iranian adults. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Ghelijli M   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Perennial Flower Strips Can Be a Cost‐Effective Tool for Pest Suppression in Orchards

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Flower strips can provide many economic benefits in commercial orchards, including reducing crop damage by a problematic pest, rosy apple aphid (Dysaphis plantaginea [Passerini]). To explore the financial costs and benefits of this effect, we developed a bio‐economic model to compare the establishment and opportunity costs of perennial ...
Charlotte Howard   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using artificial neural networks to explain the attraction of jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) to colored traps

open access: yesInsect Science, EarlyView.
Jewel beetles can discriminate leaf feeding sites and bark oviposition sites based upon the opponent comparison of their blue, green, and red photoreceptor signals. Through this mechanism, green traps resemble leaves, and purple traps resemble bark, explaining their different attractiveness to males and females.
Roger D. Santer, Otar Akanyeti
wiley   +1 more source

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