Being ‘excluded from the world of sound’: Deafness, Invalidism and Resilience in Harriet Martineau’s Writings (1834–1855) by Manuela D’Amore

“…An eclectic and prolific writer, Harriet Martineau contributed to a thorough rediscussion of the nineteenth-century cult of invalidism in England. Even today her works show how she challenged Victorian convictions on deafness and traditional medical practices, while laying the basis for a more equal and inclusive society.…”
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After Abolition: Cugoano on ‘Lawful Servitude’ and the Injustice of Slavery by Johan Olsthoorn

“…Born in present-day Ghana, Cugoano was enslaved aged 13 and trafficked to Grenada, before being taken onwards to England where he reclaimed his freedom. His Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery [1787/1791] highlights two central injustices blighting colonial slavery – robbery (‘theft of rights’) and dehumanization. …”
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Marburg variant of multiple sclerosis: A young women case report by Mohammed Alaa Jameel, Wameth Alaa Jamel, Alaa Jameel Hasan, Riyam Amer Hammood Alkhuzaie

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Questioning Agency Through Intergenerational Dialogue: The Adult Ghosts and the Forgetting Children in Rudyard Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill by Hera Kim

“…In the story, although Kipling’s narrative return to the construction of the old England and evocation of its war heroes seem designed for the Empire’s imperialism, the conversations between the adult heroes and Dan and Una raise the unsettling issue of the past heroes’ being wounded ghosts brought about by the British Empire’s imperialism. …”
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The Advent of the Printing Press and Britain’s Multilingual Textual Culture, 1471–1510 by Jordi Sánchez-Martí

“…As soon as he relocated to England, however, he abandoned this multilingual business model and devoted all his energies to print books in English, as did his successors Richard Pynson and Wynkyn de Worde. …”
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Labiodentals /r/ here to stay: Deep learning shows us why by Hannah King, Emmanuel Ferragne

“…However, the lips may be particularly important in the variety of English spoken in England, Anglo-English, because non-lingual labiodental articulations ([ʋ]) are on the rise. …”
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An investigation into the critical ingredients of intensive support teams for adults with intellectual disabilities who display challenging behaviour by Lucretia Thomas, Brynmor Lloyd-Evans, Louise Marston, Angela Hassiotis

“…Aims and method NHS England recommends the commissioning of intensive support teams (ISTs) to provide effective support to people with intellectual disability (ID) when in crisis. …”
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The Homosexual Exception? The Case of the Labouchère Amendment by William Fize

“…However, that being said, in some respects there is a case for considering that English law regarding male homosexuality in Victorian England was not so ‘exceptional’ after all, and indeed could even be seen as representing a potentially more lenient evolution of the criminal law. …”
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Culture as a dimension of country brand: the highs and lows of Brazil’s brand image by Fabiana Gondim Mariutti, Mirna de Lima Medeiros

“…Therefore, the aim of this paper is to explore ‘culture’ and its associations for Brazil as a country brand dimension, which is the unit of analysis for this interpretive study in England. Thus, after focus group and thematic analyses exploring and interpreting the findings, Brazil was perceived as having a ‘diverse and positive culture’. …”
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Le sentiment d’appartenance dans North and South d’Elizabeth Gaskell by Benjamine Toussaint-Thiriet

“…Margaret Hale, the heroine, has to leave the rural South, to which she feels her heart truly belongs, twice : first as a child, to be brought up by her aunt in London, and then, as a young woman when she must follow her parents and settle in Milton, an industrial town in the North of England. The opposition between her beloved South and this new home is no less striking from a social and cultural point of view than it is from a geographical one. …”
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Beyond Anything Realism Can Represent? Monstrous Crime in Marx’s Victorian Novel by Jayson Althofer

“…Following Friedrich Engels’s <i>The Condition of the Working Class in England</i> (1845), Marx detects and dissects capitalism’s crimes. …”
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Weighted Multiple-Model Neural Network Adaptive Control for Robotic Manipulators with Jumping Parameters by Jiazhi Li, Weicun Zhang, Quanmin Zhu

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Dean Farrar’s “Divine Crusade” and Victoria’s “Little Wars” by Stéphanie Prévost

“…So doing, he became closely connected to the metropolitan political decision-making centre, London, and to the breeding ground for the future members of Church of England clergy. As a consequence, these numerous experiences, both as a churchman deeply involved in public relations and a pedagogue, naturally fuelled his beliefs. …”
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Enacting efficient markets: The performativity of quantitative easing by Dylan Cassar

“…With reference to the Bank of England’s experience, I offer a reinterpretation of QE as a performative intervention in the conditions of financial markets, as an attempt to alter the state of financial markets away from dysfunctionality and towards efficiency. …”
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Tracing the Divine Office: On Frames and Patterns in Medieval Latin Psalter Manuscripts by Karin Becker

“…Focusing on Latin Psalter manuscripts from England, this paper will examine the correlation between visual organisation and the specific use of these manuscripts.…”
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Giving Voice: Examining the Tactical Repertoires of Nonprofit Advocacy for Disadvantaged Populations by MacIndoe Heather, Beaton Erynn E., Manuella Pache de Athayde Maria, Ojelabi Olanike

“…Analysis of a survey of New England nonprofits (N = 656, 55 % response rate) indicates that nonprofits serving disadvantaged populations use similar tactics to organizations advocating for other constituencies but employ them at higher rates. …”
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Representations of the First Colonial “Civil War” in Victoria’s Reign: the Canadian Rebellions in the English Press (1837–1838) by Françoise Lejeune

“…By reflecting on such a discrepancy in the representations of this colonial crisis, we might wonder why what seemed to clearly have been short-lived insurrections rapidly controlled by the British army, were represented under the alarming colours of “civil war” in England, in the press and in official despatches. …”
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Treating common mental disorder including psychotic experiences in the primary care improving access to psychological therapies programme (the TYPPEX study): protocol for a stepped... by David Fowler, Jesus Perez, Peter B Jones, Debra Russo, Clare Knight, Mary Dixon-Woods, Allan B Clark, Margaret Heslin, Sarah Byford, Paul French, Thomas Kabir, Jan Stochl, Mona Kanaan, James Clarke, Nick Grey, Ann Marie Swart, Polly-Anna Ashford, Ushma Patel, Freya Stuart, Hannah Murray, J Hodgekins, Nesta Reeve, Nicola Marshall, Michelle Painter, Maria Leathersich, Martin Pond

“…Introduction At least one in four people treated by the primary care improving access to psychological therapies (IAPT) programme in England experiences distressing psychotic experiences (PE) in addition to common mental disorder (CMD). …”
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Estimation of respiratory syncytial virus-associated hospital admissions in five European countries: a modelling studyResearch in context by Caroline Klint Johannesen, David Gideonse, Richard Osei-Yeboah, Toni Lehtonen, Ombeline Jollivet, Rachel A. Cohen, Arantxa Urchueguía-Fornes, María Herrero-Silvestre, Mónica López-Lacort, Rolf Kramer, Thea K. Fischer, Terho Heikkinen, Harish Nair, Harry Campbell, Michiel van Boven, Harish Nair, Hanna Nohynek, Anne Teirlinck, Louis Bont, Peter Openshaw, Andrew Pollard, Veena Kumar, Elizabeth Begier, Jim Janimak, Jenny Hendrix, Rolf Kramer, Alejandro Orrico Sánchez, Eva Molero

“…Methods: The number of RSV hospital admissions in Denmark, England, Finland, the Netherlands, and Spain were estimated with attribution analyses, using age-specific respiratory tract infection (RTI) admissions combined with virological data, both from routinely collected healthcare data. …”
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Study protocol: type II hybrid effectiveness-implementation study of routine functional status screening in VA primary care by Francesca M. Nicosia, Kara Zamora, LauraEllen Ashcraft, Gregory Krautner, Marybeth Groot, Bruce Kinosian, Cathy C. Schubert, Sumedha Chhatre, Helene Moriarty, Orna Intrator, Andrea Wershof Schwartz, Ariela R. Orkaby, Jason Prigge, Rebecca T. Brown

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