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Remembering the Great War: Writing and Publishing the Experiences of WWI

, 2017
The horrors and tragedies of the First World War produced some of the finest literature of the century: including Memoirs of an Infantry Officer; Goodbye to All That; the poetry of Wilfred Owen and Edward Thomas; and the novels of Ford Madox Ford ...
Isherwood, Ian A.
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Model Independent Framework for Searches of Top Partners

, 2013
We propose a model-independent and general framework to study the LHC phenomenology of top partners, i.e. Vector-Like quarks including particles with different electro-magnetic charge. We consider Vector-Like quarks embedded in general representations of
Buchkremer, M., Cacciapaglia, G., Deandrea, A., Panizzi, L.   +3 more
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Marrying Up: The Role of Sex Ratio in Assortative Matching [PDF]

We investigate the effect of a change in the sex ratio on assortative matching in the marriage market using a large negative exogenous shock to the French male population due to WWI casualties.
Adeline Delavande, Luis Vasconcelos, Ran Abramitzky   +2 more
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The Map Wars about Macedonia during WWI

, 2015
Dans les circonstances de guerre, les diplomates de même que les militaires font un usage des cartes radicalement différent de celui des géographes. Ils pensent la géographie en termes exclusivement politiques et administratifs. Conscients de ce fait, les géographes des Balkans et de l’Europe occidentale contribuèrent significativement par leur ...
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Association between weight-adjusted waist index and overactive bladder: a cross-sectional study based on 2009–2018 NHANES

Frontiers in Nutrition
BackgroundThe weight-adjusted waist index (WWI) is a novel obesity indicator that appears to outperform the body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) in assessing both overweight and obesity.
Zeng Hui, Zhu Zewu, Li Yang, Cui Yu
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Italian export capacity in the long run perspective (1861-2009): a tortuous path to keep the position [PDF]

The paper focuses on the evolution of the capacity of Italian goods to reach international markets from the Unification (1861) up to now. In so doing we provide a wide range of new series on the topic.
Michelangelo Vasta
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Man in his time plays many parts : life stories of William Jordan : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History at Massey University [PDF]

, 2003
When the first Labour government was elected in 1935 William Jordan became both New Zealand's High Commissioner in London and New Zealand's representative at the League of Nations.
Hickey, Carina
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Association between weight-adjusted waist index and cognitive impairment in Chinese older men: a 7-year longitudinal study

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
BackgroundObesity, through mechanisms such as insulin resistance and systemic low-grade inflammation, can damage the central nervous system and impair cognitive function. Weight-adjusted waist index (WWI) is a novel measure of obesity that may offer more
Jie Lin, Hongchen Shen, Wenjuan Yang, Guojun Zhang, Jie Sun, Wenqin Shen, Li Huang, Huajian Chen   +7 more
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Asymmetric Price Transmission in Food Supply Chains: Impulse Response Analysis by Local Projections [PDF]

In this paper we set out Jorda’s (2005) method of local projections by which nonlinear impulse responses can be computed without the need to specify and estimate the underlying nonlinear dynamic system.
Bunte, Frank H.J., Kuiper, Erno
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The joint effect of weight-adjusted waist index and physical activity on all-cause mortality in Chinese elderly patients with multimorbidity: A study based on the CLHLS from 2011 to 2018.

PLoS ONE
BackgroundThe relationship between physical activity changes, weight-adjusted waist circumference index (WWI), and mortality risk among older Chinese adults with multimorbidity remains unclear.
Bingbing Fan, Kexin Ren, Lang Li
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