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INFECTIOUS DISEASE, DEVELOPMENT, AND CLIMATE CHANGE: A SCENARIO ANALYSIS [PDF]

open access: yes
We study the effects of development and climate change on infectious disease in Sub-Saharan Africa. Infant mortality and infectious disease are close related, but there are better data for the former. In an international cross-section, per capita income,
Gary W. Yohe   +2 more
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In Search of a Third Culture: Towards an Experimental Science and Nature Cinema [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This essay attempts to move beyond C.P. Snow’s reductive formulation of the two cultures, positing a third culture forged out of the collision of science documentary television with the avant-garde traditions of the cinema.
Metz, Walter C
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Animist materialism in Femi Osofisan’s <i>No More the Wasted Breed (1983) </i>and <i>Once </i><i>Upon Four Robbers (1991)</i>

open access: yesResearch Journal in Advanced Humanities
In his oeuvre, Femi Osofisan challenges class inequalities by upbraiding the materialistic predilections of the upper class. Therefore, critics view his plays as revolutionary manuscripts designed for social awakening and interpret them from a Marxist perspective.
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THE WEAKEST LINK HYPOTHESIS FOR ADAPTIVE CAPACITY: AN EMPIRICAL TEST [PDF]

open access: yes
Yohe and Tol (2001) built an indexing method for vulnerability based on the hypothesis that the adaptive capacity for any system facing a vector of external stresses could be explained by the weakest of eight underlying determinants – the so-called ...
Gary W. Yohe, Richard S.J. Tol
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The Body at the Junction of Religion and Scientism: Modernisation of Meditative Traditions in Contemporary China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
reprinted in Macau Ricci Institute (ed.), Religion and Culture: Past Approaches, Present Globalisation, Future Challenges. Macau: Macau Ricci Institute, 2004, p.
Palmer, DA
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The Temporality of Anti-Aging: A Short History of the Fight Against Time [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article offers a first analysis of the temporality of anti-aging, which, astonishingly enough, has been missing almost completely from anti-aging and life-prolongation discussions heretofore.
Geva Herrad HESELHAUS   +1 more
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Water resource allocation issues in Thailand [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The allocation of scarce resources has been problematic throughout modern history,particularly in the case of a resource as critical to human existence as water.Grounds for allocation include considerations of ideology, politics and equity.
Chintraruck, Alin, Walsh, John
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