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A Quantitative Vegetation Study of Rainforests along Stainback Highway on the Island of Hawaii, Hawaii

open access: yes, 1970
vi, 56 p.A quantitative study of twelve stands was conducted in an area of montane rainforest on the Island of Hawaii. Measurements were taken in each stand for density, dominance, and frequency of trees and saplings using the point-centered quarter ...
Mau, Valerie
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State Choices, Unequal Access: Policies Shaping Reproductive Health Care Across the United States

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points State policies and programs play an outsized role in shaping availability and access to sexual and reproductive health services across the nation. This has a major impact on women's access to contraception, abortion, and maternity services.
ALINA SALGANICOFF   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Earthquake of the West Coast of Bougainville Island : July 14, 1971, M=7.9

open access: yes, 1974
A great shock (M=7.9) which occurred on July 14, 1971, off the west coast of Bougainville Island is studied with respect to its foreshocks and aftershocks, and the mechanism. The summary is as follows.
Yoshida Mitsuru, 吉田 満
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Firearms as a Market‐Driven Epidemic: Potential Pathways to Reduce Preventable Firearm‐Related Harm in the United States

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points For half a century, firearm‐related deaths and injuries have been endemic in the United States, with COVID‐19 contributing to a record high of 48,830 deaths in 2021, an epidemic rate increase. By 2023, national trends masked a significant 10‐fold difference in firearm‐related death rates among states.
ESZTER RIMÁNYI   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Riding Through Norms: Creating and Performing Athletic Femininity at American Ladies’ Equestrian Exhibitions, 1850–1890

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century, American agricultural fairs often featured ladies’ equestrian exhibitions. At these events, women constructed an athletic femininity based on skill and competitiveness that challenged traditional ideals of womanhood.
Gabrielle McCoy
wiley   +1 more source

The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley   +1 more source

Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to Circumnavigate Banks Island by Canoe in 1952

open access: yes, 1953
Contains chronological account of events May-Nov. 1952 on Banks Island and mainland. The writer and A. Macpherson (q.v.) made preliminary soundings in harbors on south, west, and north coasts of the island and topographic and geologic notes on coastline ...
Manning, T.H.
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
wiley   +1 more source

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