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Fostering Women's Political Leadership Through Government Accountability: Evidence From OECD Countries

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Women remain significantly underrepresented in political leadership worldwide. This study examines how different combinations of government accountability mechanisms enhance women's political representation (WPR) as a pathway to leadership in 30 OECD countries.
Samira Nazar, Seyed Ashkan Zarghami
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Juristes internationalistes, juristes mixtes, Euro-Lawyers : l’apport de l’expérience semi-coloniale à l’émergence d’un droit supranational

Clio@Themis, 2022
This paper explores the partly colonial origins of European integration law. It first notes that internationally composed and treaty-based courts with jurisdiction over individual treaty-based rights existed well before the end of WWII, notably in semi ...
Michel Erpelding
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Saplings of significance: Nurturing cultural value of new tree plantings through participatory opportunities

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 6, Page 1536-1555, June 2026.
Abstract Tree‐planting initiatives are a crucial part of international sustainability and climate action efforts. Yet, many of these initiatives fail to achieve their long‐term sustainability and climate goals. The role of community value is an often‐overlooked factor in promoting the success of new tree plantings.
Claire L. Narraway, Eline van Remortel, Sophie B. Cowling, Divya Kumar, Hanna Mroczka, Emilija Rudzinskaite, Georgina Sturgeon, Sasha Woods, Daniel B. Hayhow   +8 more
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A contribution to the priesthood calvary of the Raška-Prizren Diocese [PDF]

Baština, 2019
In this paper, based on the archive material of the Raška-Prizren Diocese, testimonies on the suffering of priesthood in Kosovo and Metohija during WWII from 1941 to 1945 are presented. During WWII one third of the priesthood of Raška-Prizren Diocese was
Stojković Boban D.
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Cinematic Memory and The Americanization of The Holocaust

Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2012
Steven Soderbergh’s The Good German (2006), while grounding itself in WWII, casts a wide net as it attempts to examine the role of memory, the difficulty of assigning guilt, determining justice, defining the past, and writing history.
Nelson Barbara A.
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Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front

Canadian Food Studies, 2014
When most of us think of Canadian history, particularly Canada’s involvement in the Second World War, it is unlikely that food is what first comes to mind. However, Ian Mosby’s new—and first—book, Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science
Jennifer Brady
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Critical Review of Brazil Disk Techniques for Tensile Strength Characterization With an Emphasis on High Explosive Materials

Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mechanical properties are a critical performance metric for many high explosive (HE) materials and tensile strength properties are particularly important. Direct tensile measurements using dogbone shaped samples are the gold standard but they have the disadvantage that they are fairly large and require samples machined from billets.
Paul B. Mirkarimi
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Review, Anke Hilbrenner, Christoph Meißner, Jörg Morré (eds.), Riss durch Europa. Die Folgen des Hitler-Stalin-Pakts. Perspektiven aus Ostmitteleuropa / Rift through Europe. The Consequences of the Hitler-Stalin Pact. Perspectives from East-Central Europe. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2024, 296 pp. ISBN 978-3-8353-5781-5 ( [PDF]

Plural: History, Culture, Society
Review of the collective book - Anke Hilbrenner, Christoph Meißner, Jörg Morré (eds.), Riss durch Europa. Die Folgen des Hitler-Stalin-Pakts. Perspektiven aus Ostmitteleuropa / Rift through Europe. The Consequences of the Hitler-Stalin Pact. Perspectives
Sergiu Musteață
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The clashing of in situ and pre‐cast technologies—Western trends and local traditions in concrete engineering shaping shell construction in 20th‐century Hungary

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract After a blossoming pre‐World War II (WWII) period, the concrete construction industry in then‐socialist Hungary existed in a relative isolation from the Western World during the mid‐20th century. In this paper, we focus on the body of work of one of the then newly established state‐owned design offices, IPARTERV, to show how the isolation ...
Orsolya Gáspár, Péter Haba
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Knowledge about traumatic World War II experiences among ancestors and subjective well-being of young adults: A person-centred perspective.

PLoS ONE, 2020
ObjectivesThe aim of our study is to examine the association between knowledge about the World War II (WWII)-related traumatic experiences of their ancestors and subjective well-being (SWB) of young adults, i.e., descendants of Polish survivors of WWII ...
Marcin Rzeszutek, Maja Lis-Turlejska, Małgorzata Pięta, Monika Karlsen, Holly Backus, Wiktoria Florek, Katarzyna Lisowska, Daniel Pankowski, Szymon Szumiał   +8 more
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