Gendered Space in the 1930s

Hip fracture in the 1930s.

Nowadays, fracture of the neck of femur is one of the risks of old age, especially for elderly women. It is a major public health problem in many Western countries and an increasing challenge in the developing world. The number of hip fractures around the world is projected to rise from 1.6 million in 1990 to 6.26 million by the middle of the next century [1]. These fractures are at least in pa...

Gendered space: a new look at Turkish modernisation.

Employment and Unemployment in the 1930s

The Great Depression is to economics what the Big Bang is to physics. As an event, the Depression is largely synonymous with the birth of modern macroeconomics, and it continues to haunt successive generations of economists. With respect to labor and labor markets, these facts evidently include wage rigidity, persistently high unemployment rates, and long-term joblessness. Traditionally, aggreg...

English /z/ in 1930s Korean

In this paper, I examine the adaptation of English /z/ in 1930s Korean based on a loanword dictionary published in 1937 (Lee 1937). The key findings are that the adaptation pattern in the 1930s is much more variable and shows sensitivity to multiple factors present in the input language, including allophonic details, orthographic representation, and morphological structure. I discuss the implic...

Pre-1900 – late 1930s

Recent observations of cod movement across stock boundaries are generally consistent with historical tagging data as well as information from other stock identification approaches. This working paper provides a historical context in which to consider recent tagging data for spatial delineation of cod stock assessments (TOR C). Introduction The objective of this report is to review the literatur...