On the origins of Palmyra and its trade
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Book Review: Islamic Civilization in South Asia: A History of Muslim Power and Presence in the Indian Subcontinent, written by Burjor Avari (2015)
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South Asia is undoubtedly home to one of the largest Muslim populations in the world. The region has such a complex historical, ethnic, geopolitical, and economic dynamics that the fact that religion has been an essential element of South Asian cultu... Read More about Book Review: Islamic Civilization in South Asia: A History of Muslim Power and Presence in the Indian Subcontinent, written by Burjor Avari.
Review of Marriage Rites and Rights by Joanna Miles, Perveez Mody and Rebecca Probert (2015)
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Schools and Urban Revitalization: Rethinking Institutions and Community Development (2015)
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British law on corporate bribery (2015)
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Purpose: – This paper aims to assess the effectiveness of the Bribery Act 2010 in curbing corporate bribery. Design/methodology/approach: – The paper takes a doctrinal focus in assessing UK bribery law using both primary and secondary sources. Findin... Read More about British law on corporate bribery.
The role of formal and informal networks in supporting older people's care during extreme weather events (2015)
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We use theories of formal and informal networks of care, within a local governance system, to interpret networks supporting older people during extreme weather events. Drawing on international literatures about network governance and emergency manage... Read More about The role of formal and informal networks in supporting older people's care during extreme weather events.
More gaps than shale: erosion of mud and its effect on preserved geochemical and palaeobiological signals (2015)
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‘They think it’s all up to the girls’: Gender, risk and responsibility for contraception (2015)
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Much research suggests that attitudes towards responsibility for use of contraception amongst young people are strongly gendered. However, decision making, if ‘decisions’ happen at all, is bound up with notions of hegemonic masculine and feminine rol... Read More about ‘They think it’s all up to the girls’: Gender, risk and responsibility for contraception.
Geomorphology and weathering characteristics of erratic boulder trains on Tierra del Fuego, southernmost South America: implications for dating of glacial deposits (2015)
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Erratic boulder trains (EBTs) are a useful glacial geomorphological feature because they reveal former ice flow trajectories and can be targeted for cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating. However, understanding how they are transported and deposited is... Read More about Geomorphology and weathering characteristics of erratic boulder trains on Tierra del Fuego, southernmost South America: implications for dating of glacial deposits.
Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Production Networks: Insights from Flower Valley in South Africa (2015)
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This paper proposes dialogue between postcolonial theory and the analytical frameworks of global value chains (GVCs) and global production networks (GPNs). It does so in order to open up more culturally sensitive accounts of global supply networks an... Read More about Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Production Networks: Insights from Flower Valley in South Africa.
Subjectivity may hinder the application of Kline's teaching framework in comparative contexts (2015)
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We welcome Kline's attempt to develop an overarching framework to allow much needed collaboration between fields in the study of teaching. While we see much utility in this enterprise, we are concerned that there is too much focus on the behavior of... Read More about Subjectivity may hinder the application of Kline's teaching framework in comparative contexts.
Heinabergsjökull and Skalafellsjökull, Iceland: active temperate piedmont lobe and outwash head glacial landsystem (2015)
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A 1:15,000 scale map of the glacial geomorphology and surficial geology of the Heinabergsjökull and Skalafellsjökull glacier forelands in southeast Iceland depicts a landsystem imprint of actively receding temperate glaciers in a mountain terrain wit... Read More about Heinabergsjökull and Skalafellsjökull, Iceland: active temperate piedmont lobe and outwash head glacial landsystem.
The Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) brachiopod fauna of the East Baltic: Taxonomy of the key species (2015)
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Rhynchonelliformean brachiopods, belonging to 17 genera, are described from the East Baltic Porkuni Regional Stage, correlated with the global Hirnantian Stage. The brachiopod genera Paromalomena, Proboscizambon?, Kinnella, Drabo-via, and Coolinia, w... Read More about The Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) brachiopod fauna of the East Baltic: Taxonomy of the key species.
Induced disjoint paths in claw-free graphs (2015)
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Paths P1; : : : ; Pk in a graph G = (V;E) are said to be mutually induced if for any 1 i < j k, Pi and Pj have neither common vertices nor adjacent vertices (except perhaps their end-vertices). The Induced Disjoint Paths problem is to test whether a... Read More about Induced disjoint paths in claw-free graphs.
The Fourfold Gospel in the Writings of Ephrem the Syrian (2015)
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Ephrem of Nisibis is unique among patristic authors for having authored a commentary on Tatian’s gospel commonly known as the “Diatessaron.” In this article I examine Ephrem’s corpus to determine what evidence exists for his knowledge and use of gosp... Read More about The Fourfold Gospel in the Writings of Ephrem the Syrian.
Experimental evidence for polybaric differentiation of primitive arc basalt beneath St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles (2015)
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Equilibrium crystallization experiments have been performed on a primitive high-MgO basalt (HMB) from Soufrière, St. Vincent, with three initial H2O contents (0·6, 2·3 and 4·5 wt %), at pressures of 0·4, 0·7, 1·0 and 1·3 GPa and temperatures from 135... Read More about Experimental evidence for polybaric differentiation of primitive arc basalt beneath St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles.
Mobile phones, mobility practices, and transport organization in sub-Saharan Africa (2015)
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Drawing on published material, gray literature, and personal research, this article explores the implications of growth in mobile phone usage across Africa for patterns of physical mobility, organization of transport services, and the potential for i... Read More about Mobile phones, mobility practices, and transport organization in sub-Saharan Africa.
Hegel and the Problem of Poverty (2015)
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All in it together? The effects of recession on population health and health inequalities in England and Sweden, 1991 to 2010 (2015)
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This article is the first to comparatively examine the effects of two recessions on population health and health inequalities in the two historically contrasting welfare states of England and Sweden. Data from 1991–2010 on self-reported general healt... Read More about All in it together? The effects of recession on population health and health inequalities in England and Sweden, 1991 to 2010.