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‘Missing persons’: Ancient legacies of human–environment interaction in tropical natural properties inscribed under the 1972 World Heritage Convention

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Cultural and natural values form the core of World Heritage designation. Properties displaying both values, however, comprise a fraction of inscriptions (currently c. 3%) to the World Heritage List. In 1992, when that fraction stood at c. 5%, adoption of the popular ‘cultural landscapes’ category of cultural heritage in 1992 was therefore ...
Ryan J. Rabett
wiley   +1 more source

Effet de la souche (Isa Brown, Harco et Lohman) sur les performances zootechniques et économiques de poulettes élevées au Sud Bénin

open access: yesRevue Marocaine des Sciences Agronomiques et Vétérinaires, 2019
Les effets de la souche et de l’âge sur les performances zootechniques et économiques de trois souches commerciales de poulettes (Isa Brown, Harco et Lohman) ont été évalués en zone tropicale humide au sud du Bénin.
Mindégnisséa Léon TOSSOU   +5 more
doaj  

China's Belt and Road Initiative in Pakistan: Bureaucratic Coordination and Chinese State‐led Development Abroad

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines China's bureaucratic approach to international development cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative, focusing on bureaucratically structured policy coordination as a core mechanism. It highlights the central role of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) — China's top economic planning agency — in ...
Hong Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Seasonal variation in species composition and frequency of insecticide resistance alleles (kdr and ace-1r) in the Anopheles gambiae complex from an irrigated rice fields area in Western Burkina Faso [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Monitoring of the spread of insecticide resistance in field vector populations is a prerequisite for the implementation of efficient and sustainable vector control strategies based on the use of insecticides. Screening for resistance alleles in Anopheles
Baldet, Thierry   +7 more
core  

Predictors of upper‐extremity motor outcomes after constraint‐induced therapy or bimanual training in children with cerebral palsy: A systematic review

open access: yesDevelopmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim To systematically review the factors that predict changes in upper‐extremity motor function in response to constraint‐induced movement therapy (CIMT) or bimanual training in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Method The PubMed, Cochrane, Embase, Scopus, CINAHL, and PEDro databases were searched. Studies were included if predictor variables
Emmanuel Segnon Sogbossi   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Within-Bale variability study on cotton produced in Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Most of the cotton bales produced in the world are sold according to the analysis of their technological characteristics using standardized instrument for testing cotton (SITC).
Aboe, Modeste   +4 more
core  

Climate shocks, democratization and (a culture of) cooperation

open access: yesEconomica, EarlyView.
Abstract While the direct economic effects of adverse climate shocks are well known, their indirect institutional impact is still poorly understood. To clarify this, we test the idea that adverse climate shocks push time‐inconsistent elites to enact inclusive political institutions, and non‐elites to embrace strong norms of cooperation.
Giacomo Benati, Carmine Guerriero
wiley   +1 more source

Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of ESG in Shaping the Impact of Financial Development on Banks' Performance

open access: yesEuropean Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how financial development, divided into financial markets and financial institutions, affects banks' performance across 93 financially developed countries during the period between 2008 and 2023. The analysis highlights the role of environmental, social and governance readiness as core determinants that reshape ...
Noman Arshed   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phylogeography of the widely distributed John Dory (Zeus faber, Actinopterygii: Zeiformes) reaffirms the prevalence of at least two deeply divergent clades

open access: yesJournal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract The John Dory Zeus faber is a commercially exploited demersal fish species with a known distribution ranging from the Northeast Atlantic to parts of the Indian and Pacific oceans. A previous genetic survey using cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) DNA barcodes suggested the presence of two geographically segregated taxonomic units within Z ...
João Tadeu Fontes   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

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