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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Investigations on pullout behavior of geogrid-granular trench using CANAsand constitutive model
Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 2017 Experimental and numerical investigations have been carried out on behavior of pullout resistance of embedded circular plate with and without geogrid reinforcement layers in stabilized loose and dense sands using a granular trench.
Ali Noorzad, Ehsan Badakhshan
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
History, EarlyView.Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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Seismic performance of traditional half-timbered walls : experimental results [PDF]
, 2013 Half-timbered structures constitute an important cultural heritage of many countries, since they represent a typical anti-seismic construction adopted worldwide [1][2]; therefore, their preservation is of the utmost importance.
Poletti, Elisa, Vasconcelos, Graça
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History, EarlyView.Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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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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Medicine Infected by Politics: The American Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934 [PDF]
, 2019 This article discusses the impact that politics and social beliefs have on the humanitarian goals of medicine, using the American occupation of Haiti (1915-1934) as a backdrop.
Scherr, Cooper
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CHD pile performance, Part I:Physical modelling [PDF]
, 2016 The Continuous Helical Displacement (CHD) pile is an auger displacement pile developed by Roger Bullivant Ltd in the UK. It has performance characteristics of both displacement and non-displacement piles due to the nature in which it is installed.
Bell A +25 more
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Gender Pay Disclosure and Firm Performance: Quasi‐Experimental Evidence From the United Kingdom
British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the impact of pay transparency on firm performance, measured as sales growth, in a large sample of UK‐registered companies between 2005 and 2023. We employ a difference‐in‐difference approach based on the pay transparency regulation enacted in 2017, which mandated all companies registered in the United Kingdom with at ...
Hildebrando Pahula, Charles Ambilichu
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Macroelement modeling of shallow foundations
, 2008 The paper presents a new macroelement model for shallow foundations. The model is defined through a non-linear constitutive law written in terms of some generalized force and displacement parameters.
Chatzigogos, Charisis +2 more
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