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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
wiley   +1 more source

Designing and Testing a Model of Some Precedents and Consequences of Oppositional Defiant Disorder in High School Students [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of School Health, 2018
Background: Previous research has demonstrated that oppositional defiant disorder is a strong predictor of mental illness that causes significant distress for adolescents, who manifest this disorder and pose remarkable costs for the society.
Arezoo Paliziyan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

FEMINISTS VERSUS MONUMENTS? From Protests to Anti‐monuments in Mexico City

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of heritage spaces and monuments in the Historic Centre of Mexico City during ongoing feminist mobilizations. Feminists have claimed that the Mexican government is more concerned about protecting monuments and urban heritage than acting to prevent gender‐based violence and femicide.
Fernando Gutiérrez
wiley   +1 more source

Saturday Extra: Guerilla Civic Engagement on the Landscape [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Over at Civil War Memory, Kevin Levin brought the community\u27s attention to some installations placed on the fences surrounding a few of the statues along Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia.
Rudy, John M.
core   +1 more source

Can riots represent? A democratic theory

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Political theory has been perennially concerned with interrogating, identifying, and clarifying the political functions of riots. Yet, political theorists have mostly fallen short of explaining the relationship between riots and democracy, although this is central to the democratic theory of contestation and crucial for evaluating the ...
Alexis Bibeau‐Gagnon
wiley   +1 more source

Technology News, June-July 1999 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Technology News is a newsletter produced by the Iowa Department of Transportation to provide information to the transportation specialist in Iowa's cities and counties.

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Conservation Can Better Integrate Environmental Justice if We Consider People’s Needs

open access: yes
The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
Beck M. Swab
wiley   +1 more source

Cost–benefit analysis of landfill emergency securing: Two applications in Southern Italy

open access: yesAnnals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract The systematic use of landfills as a method of waste disposal is leaving a heavy legacy in terms of environmental pollution, especially in the case of illegal or non‐compliant disposal sites. When no environmental precaution is adopted, harmful substances' release imposes relevant health risk to the surrounding population.
Nicola Comincioli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pushing Your Point of View: Behavioral Measures of Manipulation in Wikipedia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
As a major source for information on virtually any topic, Wikipedia serves an important role in public dissemination and consumption of knowledge. As a result, it presents tremendous potential for people to promulgate their own points of view; such ...
Das, Sanmay   +2 more
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Functional homogenization of terrestrial mammals outside protected areas in the Hengduan Mountains, China

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the crucial role of human impacts on biodiversity loss, many assessments of this loss focus on single metrics, such as species richness, and overlook the multidimensional effects of human activities. Because of its importance to ecosystem functioning, we investigated the functional diversity of medium‐ and large‐sized mammal ...
Xueyou Li   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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