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Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim, Stein, and the use and abuse of entomology
LiteratorBased on an implausible perception of entomology (the study of insects), George Waddington attempts to debauch the moral integrity of the character Stein in Joseph Conrad’s much-discussed novel Lord Jim.
Etienne Terblanche
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"Racial Wealth Disparities: Is the Gap Closing?" [PDF]
A vast literature in economics has examined the economic progress of African Americans during this century. Most of these studies have focused on income--or on even narrower measures of economic well-being, such as earnings--to assess the extent to which
Edward N. Wolff, Maury Gittleman
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Review of Writing Tangier in the Postcolonial Transition: Space and Power in Expatriate and North African Literature by Michael K. Walonen [PDF]
, 2012 Review of Writing Tangier in the Postcolonial Transition: Space and Power in Expatriate and North African Literature by Michael K ...
Lohrey, David
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Mapping the “Supply–Demand–Flow” of Ecosystem Services for Ecosystem Management in China
Advanced Science, EarlyView.This study develops a “supply–demand–flow” framework clarifies how ecosystem services move between regions by distinguishing potential and actual supply and demand. Using integrated biophysical–socioeconomic modeling, nine services in China were mapped.
Yikun Zhang +3 more
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A Tool for Change: Young Adult Literature in the Lives of Young Adult African-Americans [PDF]
, 1993 published or submitted for ...
Collins, Carol Jones
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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
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Marginalisation in the Context of Globalisation: Why Is Africa so Poor? [PDF]
Africa is the poorest region the world, and appears to be slipping further behind. This essay explores and systematises the literature that deals with why this is so. Four major lessons are suggested. The first is that the history and geography of Africa
Rune Jansen Hagen
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.The authors complement bovine pan‐SV with massive novel structural variations (SVs) identified through long‐read sequencing of 83 globally distributed cattle breeds. Repetitive sequence‐mediated SVs (rep‐SV) exhibit distinct dynamic patterns throughout cattle sub‐speciation and/or domestication processes, including uneven distribution between chr‐X and
Zhifan Guo +16 more
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The Elephant Trunk Skin Inspires a Highly Sensitive and Deformable, Yet Robust, Armor Skin
Advanced Science, EarlyView.The study presents the elephant trunk‐inspired armor skin with tactile sensing (ETATS). The ETATS architecture stretches and compresses while resisting puncture and tear, and it enables optical detection of pressure and lateral strain. Morphology‐based decoupling of strain and pressure paves the way to sensitive and deformable, yet robust, soft‐robotic
Jun Chang Yang +3 more
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