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Hospitaller activities in medieval Malta [PDF]
, 2007 The Medieval Period in the Mediterranean World is generaly considered to cover a period of about a thousand years, and is considered to initiate with the end of the Roman era heralded by the division of the Roman Empure into two parts between the sons of
Savona-Ventura, Charles
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although some studies focus on how bureaucrats' interactions with one another affect performance, they rarely focus on why these public servants collaborate. Bureaucrats' collaboration matters because it can significantly contribute to achieving policy goals.
Nathalie Mendez
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Megadrought and Megadeath in 16th Century Mexico
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2002 The native population collapse in 16th century Mexico was a demographic catastrophe with one of the highest death rates in history. Recently developed tree-ring evidence has allowed the levels of precipitation to be reconstructed for north central Mexico,
Rodolfo Acuna-Soto +3 more
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The Price Revolution in the 16th Century: Empirical Results from a Structural Vectorautoregression Model [PDF]
This paper provides empirical evidence in favor of the hypothesis that the secular price increase in the 16th century is mainly caused by money supply developments as the discovery of new mines in Latin America.
Peter Bernholz, Peter Kugler
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Tracing holotype trajectories: Mapping the movement of the most valuable herbarium specimens
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Global efforts to protect biodiversity depend on fair access to key plant specimens. This study examines the distribution of 119,361 holotypes—unique herbarium specimens used to formally describe new plant species. By linking collection and storage data, we found that holotypes are increasingly held closer to their places of origin, particularly in ...
Dominik Tomaszewski +2 more
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Maundy Thursday Wawel ceremonials of 16th century
Ruch Biblijny i Liturgiczny, 2010 The two liturgical codexes of the first half of the 16th century, preserved in the cathedral archives in Krakow and presented above, are nearly identical in their contents. They both refer to the same Maundy Thursday episcopal celebration, for which they
Szymon Fedorowicz
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The Role of Stakeholders in Accounting of Private Patrimonies The Management Of The Osuna Ducal Estate (1590-1633) [PDF]
The main aim of this paper is to test the validity of the stakeholder approach in a historical context (16th and 17th century), very different to the one in which the theory was originally developed and has normally been used. For this purpose, the paper
Jesús Damian Lopez Manjon
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Early modern herbaria house important and useful data on historic environments. However, their contents are often inhospitable to scientific use. Despite this challenge, once their contents have been deciphered, such specimens present novel research opportunities.
Madeline E. White, Stephen A. Harris
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Bias in Peak Flood Discharges: Are Our Bridges and Culverts Undersized?
River Research and Applications, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Reliable methods for peak discharge predictions at ungaged locations are required for infrastructure design and floodplain management. For decades, a standard practice in the United States has been to utilize US Geological Survey regional regression equations (StreamStats) as a singular method. However, implementation of multiple methods, such
Steven E. Yochum, Tyler Wible
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La frontera: nociones y problemas en francia, siglos XVI-XVIII.
Historia Crítica, 2006 This article addresses the concept of the frontier in France between the 16th and 18th centuries. It is divided into fve lines of thought from which the historicity of frontiers and the active role that social actors play in their construction are ...
Daniel Nordman
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