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This study involves narrative research on the importance of a life cycle norm in the context of accounting for emissions allowances. The analysis presented in this article emphasizes, in particular, those technical challenges that standard setters face when governing and legislating on how emissions rights are financially accounted. This study supports the notion that the legitimacy of standard setters during these occasions is highly influenced by the market and by political forces. This study also suggests that setting financial reporting standards on emissions allowances must follow a cycle to secure detailed research on the topic and to promote broader stakeholder engagement.

The climate crisis requires nations to achieve human well-being with low national levels of carbon emissions. Countries vary from one another dramatically in how effectively they convert resources into well-being, and some nations with low levels of emissions have relatively high objective and subjective well-being. We identify urgent research and policy agendas for four groups of countries with either low or high emissions and well-being indicators. Least studied are those with low well-being and high emissions. Understanding social and political barriers to switching from high-carbon to lower-carbon modes of production and consumption, and ways to overcome them, will be fundamental.

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Fertility control strategies became widespread in rural Spain through the twentieth century: a significant number of parents decided to reduce their marital fertility once the advantages of control strategies became widely known. This paper explores the impact of those practices on children through a comparative study of the heights and occupations of grandparents, parents, and children. We analyze more than 1,200 individuals from three different generations born between 1835 and 1959 in 14 rural Spanish villages, studying whether the advantages associated with fertility control were maintained over time favoring a better family status or whether they were diluted in the next generation. The largest increases in height were among children whose parents controlled their fertility by stopping having children before the mother's 36th birthday. However, it does not seem that this increase in biological well-being was accompanied by major episodes of upward social mobility.

A popular Bulgarian game for young children "Granny, give me a fire" is considered here by addressing the most likely historical context for its emergence. The protagonists in the studied folkloric mini-tale are: the Fire, the Grandpa and the Dog, while the Grandma and the Child are the ones who actually play the game. The actors and the circumstances that define the multilayered events in these rhymes allow us to date the origins of this story by the late Stone Age. The Grandma's character, who drives the action, gradually evolves as she introduces her grandson to the dialectics of the 'wheel of life'. Although any precise dating of the verbal folklore is a very difficult exercise, we cannot exclude that searching for new details and parallels to the elements of this story will open a way to further studies into preserved relics of game culture.

This article follows on from a discussion by Richards (2010) about ethics committees and journalism researchers being 'uneasy bedfellows'. It argues that there is scope for research using journalism as a methodology to be approved by Human Research Ethics Committees (HRECs), while acknowledging that work needs to be done in familiarising journalism academics with the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (2007) and HRECs with journalism as a research methodology. The issues that arise as journalism academics and HRECs meet tend to focus on the requirement of informed consent and timing problems, but these are not insurmountable and there are clauses in Australia's National Statement that provide scope for exemptions from these requirements. This article includes input from an interview with Professor Colin Thomson, one of the members of the NHMRC/ARC/UA working party that drafted the 2007 revision of the National Statement, clarifying the intentions of the authors with regard to Fourth Estate research, by journalists, as well as by researchers from the fields of business, law and politics. It also highlights the points of contention and common confusions that frequently arise and suggests ways that journalism academics can act collaboratively to change the current status quo.

This article follows on from a discussion by Richards (2010) about ethics committees and journalism researchers being 'uneasy bedfellows'. It argues that there is scope for research using journalism as a methodology to be approved by Human Research Ethics Committees (HRECs), while acknowledging that work needs to be done in familiarising journalism academics with the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (2007) and HRECs with journalism as a research methodology. The issues that arise as journalism academics and HRECs meet tend to focus on the requirement of informed consent and timing problems, but these are not insurmountable and there are clauses in Australia's National Statement that provide scope for exemptions from these requirements. This article includes input from an interview with Professor Colin Thomson, one of the members of the NHMRC/ARC/UA working party that drafted the 2007 revision of the National Statement, clarifying the intentions of the authors with regard to Fourth Estate research, by journalists, as well as by researchers from the fields of business, law and politics. It also highlights the points of contention and common confusions that frequently arise and suggests ways that journalism academics can act collaboratively to change the current status quo.

His son, J. P. Wheeler, will return to the Academy with James Pratt and T. B. Wales; Ebenezer Parker wishes to send his son (Albert Parker), too. ; Transcription by Sarah Durham. Transcriptions may be subject to error.

Sends his son, Joseph Porter Wheeler, to the Academy; discusses his course of education; could he room with Francis C. Loring?; encloses a list of Joseph's books and clothing. ; Transcription by Joseph Byrne. Transcriptions may be subject to error.

Simeon Wheeler writes to Alden Partridge that he and Nathan B. Webster have discontinued their institution (in Charleston, South Carolina?), but are still engaged in teaching in Charleston; whether they would come north to teach would depend on salary; he has not heard from Doctor Collins (in Portsmouth, Virginia?) since he last wrote. ; Transcription by Raymond Bouchard. Transcriptions may be subject to error.