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Magic Realism in Hiligaynon Urban Legends

JPAIR, 2015
In the modern time, urban legends become unique and valuable stories in the community. These are living people's testimony about their experiences with mix magical and mundane elements in an overall context of realistic narrations. The primary concern of
Ruth Tribunal
doaj   +1 more source

Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, 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

REPAIR AND RECONSTRUCTION FOR URBAN COMMONING: The Making of the Liberated Spaces in Naples

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Commoning requires repair. Where capitalist logics of accumulation, enclosure and exclusion produce abandoned space through the city, urban commoners remake that space to serve the needs of inhabitants. Without hiding the paradoxes and risks of repair, based on years‐long ethnography in the Liberated Spaces in Naples, Italy, we demonstrate how
Martina Locorotondo, Adam Fishwick
wiley   +1 more source

Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
wiley   +1 more source

Communal Homes and Heterotopic Contagion in Trese

Between, 2018
Metro Manila, in the comics series Trese, is a mega city inscribed by hybridity and cultural simultaneity. The stories that assemble there are built from a specific cultural base: local lore, urban legend, and the mundane features of Philippine city life.
Ana Micaela Chua Manansala
doaj   +1 more source

Bereavement Care Experiences of Mothers Following Stillbirth and Neonatal Death: A Latent Class Analysis

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study examined nuanced preferences and unmet needs for bereavement care of mothers who experienced stillbirth or neonatal death. Design Cross‐sectional survey. Setting The Philippines. Sample A total of 169 bereaved mothers aged 18 years or older who had experienced stillbirth or neonatal death on or after 30 January 2020 in the
Ana Nelia Jumamil, Joemer Calderon Maravilla, Joycelyn Abiog Filoteo, Charlene Joy Mendoza Sta. Maria, Angelica Villanueva Felipe, Rachelle Sarmiento, Anna Liza Alfonso, Mayla Rivera, Jose Edwardo Mamaat, Arbie Diane Flores, Mary Ann Bayani, Reinalyn Lim Cardenas, Wilfredo Quijencio Jr., Nemencio Santos Jr., Joyce Lisa Acena, Rebecca A. Guariño, Ida Stevia Diget, Alma Trinidad Taragua, Frances M. Boyle   +18 more
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School achievement in the Brazilian rural Amazon: An analysis of the interaction among motor, cognitive and environmental factors

British Journal of Developmental Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract A cross‐sectional study of 106 students (7–12 years) from a rural school in the Brazilian Amazon investigated the interaction among motor, cognitive and environmental factors on school achievement using network analysis. Students with good school performance were significantly older and showed superior global physical fitness, motor ...
Douglas Vieira, Cinthia Rodrigues Barros, Mabliny Thuany, Thayse Natacha Gomes   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Endocrine disruption: Fact or urban legend?

Toxicology Letters, 2013
Endocrine disruptors (EDs) are substances that cause adverse health effects via endocrine-mediated mechanisms in an intact organism or its progeny or (sub) populations. Purported EDCs in personal care products include 4-MBC (UV filter) or parabens that showed oestrogenic activity in screening tests, although regulatory toxicity studies showed no ...
Nohynek, Gerhard J., Borgert, Christopher J., Dietrich, Daniel R., Rozman, Karl K.   +3 more
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Assessing the integration of social marketing principles in ivory demand management interventions in China and Southeast Asia

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Consumer demand for ivory perpetuates the unsustainable and illegal killing of African elephants and other wildlife species. Interventions that aim to change consumer behavior are increasingly recognized as a crucial element of demand management. However, poor design and implementation have limited their effectiveness.
Molly R. C. Brown, Victoria K. Wells, Colin M. Beale   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source