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“Dig, What Makes Your Mouth So Big?”: Off-Modern Nostalgia, Symbolic Cannibalism, and Crossing the Border of the Universal Language in Clarence Major’s “The Slave Trade: View from the Middle Passage”

open access: yesStudia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2017
African American literature on the Middle Passage has always challenged white supremacy’s language with its power to define and control. This article demonstrates how the border of such a “Universal Language” is challenged and trespassed in Clarence ...
Kamionowski Jerzy
doaj   +1 more source

Free‐living Black‐tailed Godwits maintain constant intake rates across varying grassland habitat conditions by adjusting their foraging behaviour

open access: yesIbis, EarlyView.
Free‐living birds need to acquire enough food to fulfil their energetic needs, which may require more effort in habitats with less favourable conditions. Therefore, to maintain their necessary energy intake, birds need to adjust their foraging behaviour in response to varying habitat conditions.
Renée Veenstra   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multi‐objective maritime vessel routing with safety considerations

open access: yesInternational Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.
Abstract The routing of maritime vessels is a challenging optimization problem that involves finding an adequate balance between conflicting and multiple objectives. This paper proposes a methodology based on inverse optimization to find appropriate objective weights that account for conflicting objectives. To formulate the inverse optimization problem,
Nazanin Sharif   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recaptive Africans and U.S. Émigrés: Creating Communities and Journeying to Africa in the Nineteenth Century Atlantic World

open access: yesAfrican Studies Quarterly, 2018
Review Essay Sharla M. Fett. 2017. Recaptured Africans: Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, and Dislocation in the Final Years of the Slave Trade. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 312 pp. Lisa A. Lindsay. 2017.
Evan C. Rothera
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Phylogeography of Sub-Saharan Mitochondrial Lineages Outside Africa Highlights the Roles of the Holocene Climate Changes and the Atlantic Slave Trade. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Mol Sci, 2022
Sá L   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reproductive parameters of wild and hatchery‐reared sea trout (Salmo trutta m. trutta L.) females from the Łeba River (southern Baltic Sea)

open access: yesJournal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Sea trout Salmo trutta m. trutta L. has high socioeconomic and ecological importance in the Atlantic region; therefore, stocking hatchery‐reared fish is widely practiced for stock enhancement and recovery of wild populations. In this study, fecundity of wild and stocked hatchery‐reared sea trout sampled from the Łeba River (southern Baltic Sea
Adam M. Lejk, Piotr Hliwa
wiley   +1 more source

La Compagnie royale d’Afrique et les commerçants négriers anglais sur la baie de Loango (entre 1650 et 1838)

open access: yesÉtudes Caribéennes, 2019
From 1550, the United Kingdom of Great Britain enters into the Atlantic slave trade on the African coasts by venturing first on the coast of Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast (modern Ghana).
Arsène Francoeur Nganga
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Ripples in the Pond: Product Portfolio Reconfiguration and Dynamism in the Competitive Environment

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The management literature often overlooks how firms can alter the competitive landscape without introducing groundbreaking changes or innovations. Applying the awareness, motivation, and capability framework from competitive dynamics, we posit that as a firm intensifies its product portfolio reconfiguration, its rivals become increasingly ...
Christopher Jung   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

AS FEITORIAS DE URZELA E O TRÁFICO DE ESCRAVOS: GEORG TAMS, JOSÉ RIBEIRO DOS SANTOS E OS NEGÓCIOS DA ÁFRICA CENTRO-OCIDENTAL NA DÉCADA DE 1840

open access: yesAfro-Ásia, 2011
Originally published in Hamburg in 1847, and then translated into English and Portuguese, the work of Georg Tams has been used by scholars because of its wealth of detail on the dynamics of the "illegal" period of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Maria Cristina Cortez Wissenbach
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La penetración económica portuguesa en la Sevilla del siglo XVI

open access: yesEspacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie IV, Historia Moderna, 2014
El presente artículo estudia el proceso de penetración económica del capital portugués en la Sevilla del siglo XVI. Desde unos orígenes modestos, su papel privilegiado en la trata negrera atlántica permitió a una serie de redes mercantiles portuguesas ir
Manuel F. Fernández Chaves   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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