Gypsies and Other Itinerant Groups
A Socio-Historical Approach
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Open AccessLimits in reaching the anhydrous state of wood and cellulose
Water-sorption studies and certain organic chemistry reactions require water removal from cellulosic samples. This is hindered by the strong interaction of cellulosic materials with water, and it remains uncer...
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Hygroscopic wood moisture: single and dimerized water molecules at hydroxyl-pair sites?
A new molecular model is developed for wood moisture sorption in the hygroscopic range of relative humidity (RH < 95%). This model incorporates realistic physical characteristics of wood moisture sorption that...
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Thermally limited wood moisture changes: relevance for dynamic vapour sorption experiments
In this research, an analytical model is developed for the study of thermal effects on transient uptake of moisture by wood exposed to a stepwise relative humidity (RH) change. This model specifically addresse...
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Wood degradation affected by process conditions during thermal modification of European beech in a high-pressure reactor system
The degradation of beech wood during a thermal modification process in a high-pressure reactor system using steam as medium was investigated. The wood was modified at different peak temperatures (150–180 °C), ...
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The water vapor sorption mechanism and its hysteresis in wood: the water/void mixture postulate
A new method of wood moisture sorption analysis is presented using sorption isotherms of a series of mildly heat-treated specimens with varied and known elemental composition. This method allows the determinat...
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Hydrostatic pressure and temperature dependence of wood moisture sorption isotherms
By expressing wood moisture content data as a function of adsorption energy, an interesting scaling capability is obtained, wherefrom the general hydrostatic pressure and temperature dependence of wood moistur...
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Introduction
The student of European history who searches for Gypsies will find them only in footnotes. Today we still know little about how they worked and lived in the past. The same holds true for itinerant groups in ge...
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The Church of Knowledge: Representation of Gypsies in Encyclopaedias
In order to grasp the West European image of Gypsies during the last two hundred and fifty years, we have oral, iconographic and written sources at our disposal: surveys, sculpture, literature, magazines and n...
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Ethnicity as a Death-Trap: the History of Gypsy Studies
For a long time we have wondered why the findings of research into Gypsy groups have so rarely been the subject of scholarly debate in the field of historical studies on migration, settlement and ethnicity. Wh...
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A Silent War: Foreign Gypsies and the Dutch Government Policy, 1969–89
In the preceding pages the emphasis has been on historical processes in regard to the representation of Gypsies and other itinerant groups, and government policies towards them. In this and the following chapt...
