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Protecting threatened species and music traditions

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.
Musical instruments are indispensable to music traditions worldwide and often made from natural materials derived from species that are increasingly endangered. International trade threatens the survival of some of these species, as addressed by their inclusion in the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ...
Silke Lichtenberg, Udo Nehren, Dieter Anhuf, Iris Brémaud, Tiago de Oliveira Pinto, Viviane S Fonseca‐Kruel, Volker Haag, Elisabeth Huber‐Sannwald, Stefan Jänicke, Gerald Koch, Jakob Kusnick, Haroldo C Lima, Eduardo Luiz Longui, Daniel Piotto, Juan Antonio Reyes‐Agüero, Patrícia Rosa   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Visiones y mortificaciones como mecanismos de control en un monasterio del siglo XVIII: las monjas visionarias de Malagón

Mayurqa, 2020
The mystical visions and supernatural experiences that many nuns claimed to suffer were not always true. In fact, sometimes they became useful mechanisms to obtain benefits.
Francisco José García Pérez
doaj   +1 more source

AIP mutation in pituitary adenomas in the 18th century and today.

New England Journal of Medicine, 2011
Gigantism results when a growth hormone-secreting pituitary adenoma is present before epiphyseal fusion. In 1909, when Harvey Cushing examined the skeleton of an Irish patient who lived from 1761 to 1783, he noted an enlarged pituitary fossa.
H. Chahal, K. Stals, M. Unterländer, D. Balding, Mark George Thomas, Ajith Kumar, G. Besser, A. Atkinson, P. Morrison, T. Howlett, M. Levy, S. Orme, S. Akker, Richard L. Abel, A. Grossman, J. Burger, S. Ellard, M. Korbonits   +17 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Climate Change and Investors' Behaviour: Assessing a New Type of Systematic Risk

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores how temperature anomalies, a novel form of systematic risk, affect financial markets, expanding the traditional understanding of market‐wide risks. While climate change is becoming an important consideration, the extent to which temperature anomalies disrupt economic activities and influence stock returns is urgently needed
Natthinee Thampanya, Junjie Wu
wiley   +1 more source

Great Divergence of the 18th Century?

Cliodynamics, 2018
The article suggests that the Great Divergence of the 19th century between “the West” and “the East” was preceded by the Great Divergence in the 18th century between the Global North and the Global South.
Andrey V. Korotayev, Julia Zinkina, Denis Zlodeev   +2 more
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Of the use of the “English sector” in trigonometry: what amount of mathematical training was necessary in the 18th century? [PDF]

, 2016
In 1723 Edmund Stone published The construction and principal uses of mathematical instruments, which was essentially a translation from the French of Bion’s Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instrumens de mathématique (1709).
Blanco Abellán, Mónica
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Spontaneous hemoperitoneum in a 29‐week pregnancy with a history of endometriosis: A case report and review of the literature

International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, Volume 169, Issue 1, Page 31-37, April 2025.
Abstract Spontaneous hemoperitoneum in pregnancy (SHIP) is defined as sudden, nontraumatic intraperitoneal bleeding that occurs during pregnancy or up to 42 days postpartum. The incidence ranges between 4 and 4.9 per 100 000 births. Although seen rarely, it is associated with perinatal morbidity and mortality due to maternal hemodynamic instability ...
Shamsi Mehdiyev, Fatma Basak Tanoglu, Esma Demir Altuncu, Engin Oral   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Happy in the service of the Company: the purchasing power of VOC salaries at the Cape in the 18th century [PDF]

This paper contributes to the debate on the level and trajectory of welfare at the Cape of Good Hope during the 18th century. Recent scholarship (for example, Allen 2005) has calculated and compared the levels and evolution of real wages in various ...
Sophia du Plessis, Stan du Plessis
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Advantages of regional development—A study on poverty alleviation in contiguous destitute areas

International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract The 2011–2020 period is the final stage of poverty alleviation in China, which emphasizes regional development. Using county‐level panel data from 2006 to 2015, we explore the impact of regional poverty alleviation policy on economic growth of contiguous destitute areas (CDAs) in China.
Du Hongyu
wiley   +1 more source

Bolgar Saltpeter Plant in Historical, Archival and Cartographic Materials

Поволжская археология, 2017
The article features a collection and analysis of all known historiographical information concerning the operation of the Bolgar saltpetre plant in the territory of Bolgar fortified settlement in the Spassky district of Kazan governorate.
Abdullin Khalim M.
doaj   +1 more source