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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The 1870 Elementary Education Act enabled the creation of school boards in England and Wales. Members were directly elected by the cumulative vote. This method gave each individual voter as many votes as there were seats on a school board, in some cases up to fifteen.
ED GREEN
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The Palimpsest of The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann in the Literary Works of Juan Benet

1616, 2017
This article analyzes the influence of The Magic Montain (1924) by Thomas Mann in the narrative of Juan Benet. The author of the cicle of «Región» recognized in his essays and in his interviews that he read this work.
Jorge MACHÍN LUCAS
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Thomas Mann

Letras (Lima), 1929
Thomas Mann, a quien la Academia sueca acaba de discernir el premio Nobel, pertenece, con su hermano Heinrich, al grupo de escritores que en Alemania representa un altísimo ideal europeo de paz y  solidaridad continental. Contra arraigadas exigencias de un exclusivismo tradicional, los dos grandes novelistas trabajan, sobre todo después de la guerra ...
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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The Performance of Selective Screening Ultrasound to Detect the Small‐for‐Gestational‐Age Foetus: A Prospective Cohort Study Nested Within the DESiGN Randomised Control Trial

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Evidence on the performance of foetal growth ultrasound parameters to detect the Small‐for‐Gestational‐Age (SGA) foetus for a selective cohort is limited. We report the performance of estimated foetal weight under the 10th percentile (EFW < 10th) at the last selective screening ultrasound to detect SGA based on gestational age of ...
Charles Arcus, James Elhindi, Chivon Winsloe, Andrew Copas, Sophie Relph, Annette Briley, Kirstie Coxon, Mark Johnson, Asma Khalil, Deborah A. Lawlor, Christoph Lees, Neil Marlow, Louise Page, Andrew Shennan, Jane Sandall, Tanya Nippita, Matias C. Vieira, Dharmintra Pasupathy   +17 more
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Surveying the Farmer Survey: A Synthesis of Research Practices in the Netherlands, Slovenia and Sweden

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research based on farmer surveys is a cornerstone of agricultural economics. Farmer surveys provide unique insights into behavioural variables—such as values, motivations, attitudes, behaviours, and preferences—that are unavailable in secondary datasets.
Thomas Slijper, Julia Höhler, Tanja Šumrada, Jens Rommel, Živa Alif, Jesus Barreiro‐Hurle, Anne Sophie Dietrich, Uliana Gottlieb, Thanh Mai Ha, Karin Hakelius, Helena Hansson, Vivian Wei Huang, Katja Knez, Gaëlle Leduc, Nina Lind, Yann de Mey, Ana Novak, Harold Opdenbosch, Enoch Owusu‐Sekyere, Oyakhilomen Oyinbo, Anton Perpar, Jaap Sok, Luuk Vissers, Scarlett Wang, Lotte Yanore   +24 more
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Collective Contracts as a Risk‐Sharing Mechanism for Result‐Based Agri‐Environmental Payments: Experimental Evidence

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Linking payments from agri‐environment schemes to ecological results or to collective outcomes is viewed as a promising way to increase the effectiveness of agri‐environmental conservation. However, the two approaches are rarely combined.
Thomas Rellensmann, Stefanie Engel, Jens Rommel, Fabian Thomas   +3 more
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Arte como forma da moral

Pandaemonium Germanicum: Revista de Estudos Germanísticos, 2019
Este artigo pretende compreender como, para Thomas Mann, a arte é uma forma da moral, e não um instrumento moral. Esta afirmação adquire sentido a partir de seu contexto específico, isto é, a partir do diálogo tenso entre Thomas Mann e seu irmão ...
Pedro Spinola Pereira Caldas
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Impact of Metformin and Diabetes on Tumor Response to Total Neoadjuvant Therapy in Advanced Rectal Cancer: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study

Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, EarlyView.
In advanced rectal cancer patients receiving total neoadjuvant therapy (TNT), overall tumor response did not differ by diabetes status or metformin use. However, among diabetic patients, metformin use was associated with higher overall complete response rates. These findings suggest a potential benefit of metformin in enhancing TNT response in diabetic
Sergei Bedrikovetski, Mahima Raju, Tracy Fitzsimmons, Ishraq Murshed, Timothy J. Price, Michael Penniment, Sudarsha Selva‐Nayagam, Tarik Sammour   +7 more
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