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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Are Windfalls a Curse? A Non-Representative Agent Model of the Current Account and Fiscal Policy [PDF]
In several countries temporary terms of trade improvements have led to a deterioration of the current account. Furthermore, many of these countries failed to attain greater post-boom growth rates.
Aaron Tornell, Philip Lane
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Remittance Income and Crime in Mexico
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between remittance inflows and criminal activity in Mexico, a country with persistently high crime rates and among the world's top remittance recipients. Using a 41‐quarter panel dataset of municipalities covering 2013–2023, the analysis estimates elasticity parameters linking remittance income to different
Diego De la Fuente Stevens
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Environmental Politics in North and East Syria/Rojava: A Scoping and Conceptual Literature Review
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article presents a scoping and conceptual literature review on environmental politics in North and East Syria/Rojava. The review aims to synthesize existing academic research in English on the interplay between armed conflict and environmental change in the region, focusing on the Kurdish‐led socio‐political model known as the Autonomous ...
Pinar Dinc +2 more
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Nigeria's growth record : Dutch disease or debt overhang ? [PDF]
Nigeria's oil boom has not brought an end to perennial stagnation in the non-oil economy. Is this the unavoidable consequence of the resource boom or have misguided policies contributed?
Budina, Nina +2 more
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Taking as its case study the category of the ‘asylum seeker’ in UK law, this paper develops on latent concerns in legal geographies with processes of abstraction. Following Bhandar and Toscano, race, law and capital are here understood as different, co‐articulating modalities of abstraction, through which the ‘asylum seeker’ is constituted and
Anna Pearce
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Desde el Jardín de Freud, 2012 En “tiempos de guerra, la primera víctima es la verdad”, y el habla. La guerra de rapiña que vive el país ha envilecido el lenguaje, las palabras, el “alma”. Con esas mismas palabras, que hoy deben ocultar la voracidad y el crimen, deben también escribir
Santiago Mútis Durán
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Direct block scheduling technology: Analysis of Avidity
REM: International Engineering JournalThis study is focused on Direct Block Scheduling testing (Direct Multi-Period Scheduling methodology) which schedules mine production considering the correct discount factor of each mining block, resulting in the final pit.
Felipe Ribeiro Souza +8 more
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Narrating Entanglement Without Dehumanisation in Contemporary Eco‐Fiction
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT This essay presents a comparative analysis of two contemporary works of eco‐fiction, Richard Powers's The Overstory (2018) and Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood (2023). Both novels use multiperspective narration in the service of entanglement narratives, forms of storytelling that emphasise the interconnection of human and nonhuman life.
Diana Rose Newby
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