“To us the war is a spectacle”: Domestic Consumption of the Crimean War in Victorian Britain by Alison Fletcher

“…Following the war, Mary Seacole a colonial subject from Jamaica, published a memoir of her experiences nursing sick soldiers in the Crimea. …”
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Visual Hybridity: Margaret Murray Cookesley’s Orientalist Aestheticism by Julia Kuehn

“…By analysing a number of Cookesley’s Orientalist-Aestheticist paintings of harem women this essay thus suggests that Aestheticism was by no means a well-defined or self-contained artistic movement but was open enough to invite often bizarre hybrids like Cookesley’s works into its circle.…”
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Bioinorganic Synthesis of Polyrhodanine Stabilized Fe3O4/Graphene Oxide in Microbial Supernatant Media for Anticancer and Antibacterial Applications by Seyyed Mojtaba Mousavi, Seyyed Alireza Hashemi, Ahmad Gholami, Navid Omidifar, Maryam Zarei, Sonia Bahrani, Khadije Yousefi, Wei-Hung Chiang, Aziz Babapoor

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Increasing the uptake of long-acting reversible contraception in general practice: the Australian Contraceptive ChOice pRoject (ACCORd) cluster randomised controlled trial protocol by Danielle Mazza, Angela Taft, Kevin McGeechan, Kirsten Black, Heather McKay, Marion Haas, Jayne Lucke, Jeffery F Peipert

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Historical Topicality in Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblock’s Milestones by Lukas Klik

“…Arnold Bennett was one of the key figures of early twentieth century British literature. However, although literary criticism has engaged with his novels, his dramatic oeuvre remains a blind spot in scholarship. …”
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Birmingham’s Women Poets: Aestheticism and the Daughters of Industry by Marion Thain

“…In doing so, this essay not only uncovers an unacknowledged part of the narrative of British aestheticism, it also disrupts some of the convenient critical boundaries which have become entrenched within our study, and which currently limit its scope.…”
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Rapid Mapping and Deformation Analysis over Cultural Heritage and Rural Sites Based on Persistent Scatterer Interferometry by D. Tapete, F. Cigna

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Endocrine Aspects of 4H Leukodystrophy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Emma Billington, Geneviève Bernard, William Gibson, Bernard Corenblum

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‘Just because something works doesn’t mean it can’t be improved’: an ethnographic analysis of the health system in Black Panther’s Wakanda by Jennifer Jackson, Carla Ferreira, Samantha Perry, Carla Ginn, Melissa Scott, Elke Jaibeeh Barah, Zahra Upal, Krista Phelps, Carol Mei, Haneul Woo, Megan Tung, Farida Gadimova, Alexandra Ewanyshyn, Twyla Ens

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Images de l’étrange : Punch ou la re-présentation du paradigme bourgeois by Françoise Baillet

“…In the mid-Victorian period, at a time when the forces of respectability were rapidly transforming the British society, Punch, formerly famous for its biting pictorial comment on contemporary events, chose to champion the cause of the increasingly powerful middle-class. …”
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« You don’t suspect me of doing anything wrong, do you ? » Peurs, soupçons et paranoïa dans The Woman in White de Wilkie Collins by Laurence Taleirach-Vielmas

“…In The Woman in White, mysterious, secretive and dangerous characters abound, from the ghostly virgin dressed in white who wanders at night and threatens to reveal secrets, to the Italian count and the British baronet who incarcerate the heroine under her half-sister’s name in a lunatic asylum in order to inherit her fortune. …”
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Alienation, Adoption or Adaptation? Aestheticist Paintings by Women by Pamela Gerrish Nunn

“…The same has not occurred for the visual art of Aestheticism.To address the work of gender within Aestheticism, this paper proposes some specific works by women artists as characteristic of the style. In so doing it introduces several new names (Isobel Gloag, Constance Halford, Thea Proctor) into the cast of executive characters that the author contends are necessary to a full account of Aestheticism as a trend in British culture bridging the 19th and 20th centuries.…”
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Conflicting Visions of War: Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling’s Evocation of the Boer War by Laïli Dor

“…Rudyard Kipling and Winston Churchill both covered the Boer War as newspaper correspondents, working respectively for the Friend of the Free State and the Morning Post, and in later days, both authors looked back on the Boer War in their autobiographies. Kipling devoted a chapter of his autobiography Something of Myself to his experience of the war, while Churchill described his adventures, including his spectacular escape from a Boer prison in My Early Years. …”
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Jean-Baptiste Gossé, L’Europe face aux déséquilibres mondiaux : une analyse historique, théorique et empirique by Jean-Baptiste Gossé

“…We built up a theoretical model to show that the British cycle is based on a “current account – foreign investments – investment income” loop which allowed countries in Europe to consume more than they produced while their foreign assets and investment incomes continued to rise. …”
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Emergent patterns in global health diplomacy: a network analysis of the resolutions adopted by the World Health Assembly from 1948 to 2022 by Kelley Lee, Didier Wernli, Nicolas Levrat, Bastien Chopard, Jean-Luc Falcone, Stephan Davidshofer

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SHOX and sex difference in height: a hypothesis by Tsutomu Ogata, Atsushi Hattori, Maki Fukami

“…In this regard, previous studies have revealed that (1) distribution of the mean adult heights in subjects with disorders accompanied by discordance between sex chromosome complement and bioactive sex steroids and in control subjects (the British height standards) indicates that, of the ~12.5 cm of sex difference in the mean adult height, ~9 cm is accounted for by the difference in the sex chromosome complement and the remaining ~3.5 cm is explained by the dimorphism in sex steroids (primarily due to the growth-promoting effect of gonadal androgens); (2) according to the infancy-childhood-puberty growth model, the sex difference in the childhood growth function produces height differences of ~1 cm in childhood and 8–10 cm at 18–20 years of age, whereas the sex difference in the pubertal growth function yields height difference of ~4.5 cm at 18–20 years of age; and (3) SHOX expression and methylation analyses using knee cartilage tissues and cultured chondrocytes have shown lower SHOX expression levels in female samples than in male samples and methylation patterns consistent with partial spreading of X-inactivation affecting SHOX in female samples. …”
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FROM OPTIMISM TO DISAPPOINTMENT: THE EVOLUTION OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE WEST by E. V. Volgina

“…In this context the research focuses on his travel writings created while in the West as well as back in India. In addition to a number of traditional means of research, i.e. historical genitival and historical comparative, content analysis and discourse analysis are also employed. …”
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The Role of Great Britain in Forming of EU’s Foreign and Security Policy in the Context of Leading Theories of Eurointegration by A. V. Groubinko

“…CFSP as a specific sphere of co-operation of the EU's states fully represents conceptual dichotomy of European Union essence at level «intergovernmental - supranational». …”
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What all physicians should know about women’s health: a Delphi study by Susanna Price, Eva Gerdts, Julien Mazières, Alexandra Kautzky-Willer, Fedde Scheele, Chiara Benedetto, Kerry Wilbur, Gertraud Stadler, Marieke Wermer, Jeanine Roeters van Lennep, Merel H de Heer-Koster, Vesna Bjegović-Mikanović, Indre Banaitytė-Baleišienė, Mary Perdiou, Alyson McGregor, Connie Newman, Simona Stankevičiūtė, Iris E Sommer, Florence Thibaut, Karine van 't Land

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