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New Results From the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic Site of Al Uyaynah, Tabuk, in Northwestern Saudi Arabia

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Al Uyaynah is a low sandstone mound on an alluvial plain, long known for its extensive surface remains of stone‐built circular and rectangular structures. Following test excavations in 2012, more detailed excavation was undertaken in 2016 within one of the largest rectangular stone structures.
Khalid Alasmari, Stephanie F. Piper, Kirsten Grothe, W. Derek Hamilton, Delphine Joly, Penny Bickle, Geoff Bailey   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Late Agricultural Development of Central Arabian Oases—Archaeobotanical and Archaeozoological Studies of the al‐Kharj Oasis

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While oasis settlements emerged during the Bronze Age in Eastern and Northern Arabia, the settlement process in Central Arabia was different. Excavations at al‐Yamāma—main ancient settlement of the al‐Kharj oasis (Riyadh Province, KSA)—suggest that the latter did not emerge before the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Elora Chambraud, Hervé Monchot, Vladimir Dabrowski, Charlène Bouchaud, Jérémie Schiettecatte   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Child Protection Supervisory in Times of Crisis—Team Leaders' Experience in Child Protection Units During the First Year of the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child protection supervisors face a difficult task in ensuring high reliability in handling cases of suspected child maltreatment and thus safeguarding children at any time. During the COVID‐19 pandemic, social life and workflow organisation underwent significant changes within a short period.
Susanne Witte, Sylvia Sperger, Thomas Meysen, Heinz Kindler   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Be There, Listen, See What It Is They Need’: Fathers' Roles in Supporting Black Mothers During Pregnancy

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is a critical public health crisis regarding the infant mortality rate between black and white mothers in the USA. This issue is more pronounced in North Carolina, where black infants have a much higher infant mortality rate than whites.
Jeffrey Shears, Lorenzo N. Hopper, Bledsoe Sarah, David Miller, J. Dontaé Roberts, Tianca Crocker, Brittany Hodges, Kevin Antwi   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Story2Board: A Training‐Free Approach for Expressive Visual Storytelling

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract We present Story2Board, a training‐free framework for expressive storyboard generation from natural language. Existing methods narrowly focus on subject identity, overlooking key aspects of visual storytelling such as spatial composition, background evolution, and narrative pacing.
D. Dinkevich, M. Levy, O. Avrahami, D. Samuel, D. Lischinski   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exoskeleton‐assisted physiotherapy in school and outpatient contexts for minimally ambulant children with cerebral palsy

Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim To assess the clinical feasibility of lower‐limb pediatric exoskeleton‐assisted (Trexo Plus) physiotherapy for minimally ambulatory children at an outpatient center and a primary school. Secondary aims were to assess associated functional and goal‐based outcomes before and after Trexo‐based physiotherapy.
Stefanie S. Bradley, Tom Chau, Anne Kawamura, F. Virginia Wright   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Elbow grease and yellow soap’: Housework time in working‐class households in late‐nineteenth and early twentieth‐century Britain

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Housework is central to feminist calls for recognition of women's work, economic histories explaining the sexual division of labour, and claims regarding the progressive role of scientific knowledge. Yet little is known about the time it actually took. We address this lacuna.
Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries
wiley   +1 more source

The Challenges of Backsourcing

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public sector outsourcing sometimes ends in unexpected termination, forcing authorities to engage in backsourcing. The aim of this study is to identify the challenges posed by unexpected terminations of sourcing contracts in the public sector and analyze how actual practices in these situations diverge from theoretical expectations in the ...
Johan Berlin, Eric Carlström, Magnus Jansson, David Karlsson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Support, reciprocity, and kinship as seeds of Indigenous family resilience during COVID‐19

Family Relations, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Our goal was to better understand the impact of COVID‐19 on Indigenous family coping. The focal research question was the following: What protective factors do Indigenous women cite as buffering stressors related to COVID‐19 for themselves and their families? Background During the COVID‐19 pandemic, Indigenous peoples experienced the
Kya Locklear, Catherine E. O'Connor, Kristi Ka'apu, Elaine Wright, James Allen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fatigue Crack Modeling of Railheads Using a Nonlinear Cohesive Zone Model

Fatigue &Fracture of Engineering Materials &Structures, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Subsurface fatigue crack growth within railheads can be deleterious leading to catastrophic failures in rails. This study aims to model the fatigue crack growth originating at the subsurface level within railheads. Towards that end, a finite element modeling approach is utilized wherein complex crack growth is explicitly modeled using a ...
Santosh Reddy Kommidi, Hesam Mortazavi, Yong‐Rak Kim, David H. Allen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source