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Stretch versus shortening contractions subsequently decrease versus increase neural drive to the human tibialis anterior. [PDF]

Exp Physiol
Abstract EMG‐based muscle force predictions are often inaccurate following active muscle stretch or shortening because of residual force enhancement (rFE) or depression (rFD), respectively, which can alter the neural drive to a muscle. However, the extent of neural drive modulation attributable to rFE or rFD remains unknown owing to the limited spatial
Raiteri BJ, Bosse KF, Boccardo M, Vandal AC, Hahn D.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Missing Queens: Gender, Dynasty and Power in Vandal Africa [PDF]

, 2021
This paper reconsiders a curious aspect of the Vandal kingdom of North Africa (439–533 ce): the total absence of women called Vandals in extant sources. It argues that these missing Vandal women are the women of the Hasding royal dynasty.
Whelan, Robin, Robin Whelan
core   +1 more source

Creating Memory in Vandal Period Africa [PDF]

, 2020
The Vandals left no origo gentis even though history is an essential factor for the construction of group identity. But the creation of memory in the Vandal kingdom in North Africa can be reconstructed with archaeological sources.
Quast, Dieter
core   +1 more source

“They say we're a rights‐respecting school but nobody knows what that really means”: Children's rights implementation in a Scottish secondary school

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Education has been an enduring feature of international human rights law since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and is the only human right that is compulsory for children. Appearing in all major human rights treaties, including the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, education is multidimensional and a multiplier of ...
Amy Hanna
wiley   +1 more source

Data Related to Meta-analysis of up to 622,409 individuals identifies 40 novel smoking behaviour associated genetic loci

, 2019
Here we have included four sets of meta-analysis results: Meta-analysis of discovery and replication cohorts, combining genotyped Exome-chip and Axiom array content for (i) Smoking Initiation, (ii) Cigarettes per day, and (iii) Smoking Cessation, and (iv)
CHD Exome+ consortium, GSCAN, Consortium for Genetics of Smoking Behaviour   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Image of Hercules by Dracontius: On political interpretation of mythological poems (Romulea 2 & 4)

Шаги
This paper deals with the problem of political interpretation of the works of Dracontius, a Roman poet of the late 5th century from Carthage. The thesis about the socio-political background of his poems has become increasingly widespread in recent years.
I. M. Nikolsky
doaj   +1 more source

The Degradation of Access‐Based Business Models: Customer Misbehavior and Shared Mobility

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Access‐based services are considered one of the strategies to embed sustainability in business models. Yet, because the evolution of these business models has been overlooked, we do not know whether their promise to create triple value is sustained.
Andres Camacho, Carmen Valor
wiley   +1 more source

“You just want to re‐open our biggest wounds, don't you?”: Homeplace ethnography as (polluted) environmental method

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract When I was 12, my family told me a story about their community falling apart and coming together, a time when someone tried putting a nuclear facility in their (our?) hometown. Since we moved when I was too young to remember, the story had little significance until I embarked on a “hometown” ethnographic journey for my dissertation.
Chandler L. Classen
wiley   +1 more source

Monuments to Injustice and the Ethics of Dark Tourism: A Research Note

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research note aims to motivate philosophical examination of the ethical tensions surrounding ‘dark tourism’ and monuments to injustice. While such monuments function to acknowledge past wrongs, educate the public, and serve reparative functions, their presentation as tourist destinations can undermine these purposes.
Kok‐Chor Tan
wiley   +1 more source

Caring with forests: Human and more‐than‐human care in forest occupations in Germany

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on ongoing ethnographic and participatory action research within forest occupations in Germany, this paper develops the concept of ‘caring with forests’ to theorise the mutual, multidimensional relationships of care that emerge between humans and more‐than‐human beings in environmental protest settings.
Sebastian Garbe
wiley   +1 more source