John Locke, Abolitionism, and the Reactionary Enlightenment by Brian Smith

“…Right around the time England abolished the slave trade in 1807, a string of successful vindication narratives helped to liberate Locke from his linkages to slavery. …”
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Enhancing Self Esteem of Orphan Teenagers through Self Discovery Training by Ema Zati Baroroh, Nindya Juwita Utimadini, Nabila Dafik Alhumairah, Ramadhanti Alifa Fatiah

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Multi-Innovation Stochastic Gradient Parameter and State Estimation Algorithm for Dual-Rate State-Space Systems with d-Step Time Delay by Ya Gu, Quanmin Zhu, Jicheng Liu, Peiyi Zhu, Yongxin Chou

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Health and Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Children and Young People: Analysis of Free-Text Responses From the Children and Young People With Long COVID Study by Natalia K Rojas, Sam Martin, Mario Cortina-Borja, Roz Shafran, Lana Fox-Smith, Terence Stephenson, Brian C F Ching, Anaïs d'Oelsnitz, Tom Norris, Yue Xu, Kelsey McOwat, Emma Dalrymple, Isobel Heyman, Tamsin Ford, Trudie Chalder, Ruth Simmons, Snehal M Pinto Pereira

“…The results were broadly similar when reweighted to the general population of children and young people in England: 78.52% (negative), 13.23% (positive), and 8.24% (neutral). …”
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The Solid Phase Distribution and Bioaccessibility of Arsenic, Chromium, and Nickel in Natural Ironstone Soils in the UK by Joanna Wragg, Mark Cave, Sean Gregory

“…Thirty soil samples (12 residential gardens and 18 allotments) were collected from the Cherwell District of north Oxfordshire in south-central England. The underlying parent geology of the area is dominated by Jurassic ironstone. …”
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Homeomorphism Mapping Based Neural Networks for Finite Time Constraint Control of a Class of Nonaffine Pure-Feedback Nonlinear Systems by Jianhua Zhang, Quanmin Zhu, Yang Li, Xueli Wu

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Modeling the impact of twitter on influenza epidemics by Kasia A. Pawelek, Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch, Libin Rong

“…We also perform numericalsimulations, conduct sensitivity test on a few parameters related totweets, and compare modeling predictions with surveillance data ofinfluenza-like illness reported cases and the percentage of tweetsself-reporting flu during the 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak in England andWales. These results show that social media programs like Twittermay serve as a good indicator of seasonal influenza epidemics andinfluence the emergence and spread of the disease.…”
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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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