History of research in mineral resources : [35th Conference of the International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences, Madrid y Almadén(España), 1-14 julio 2010] [PDF]
The study of the research history of geological resources is one of the main objectives of the International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences (INHIGEO), which was created in 1967 within the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)
Mazadiego Martínez, Luis Felipe +3 more
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Enforcing Religious Repression in an Age of World Empires: Assessing the Global Reach of the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions [PDF]
This article highlights how the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions endeavoured to police religious orthodoxy on a global scale in an era without modern means of communication or personal identification.
Soyer, Francis
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New insights in the paternal genetic landscape of Southwestern Europe: dissection of haplogroup R1b-M269 and forensic applications [PDF]
325 p.El cromosoma Y determina el sexo masculino y posee una naturaleza haploide que escapa a la recombinación, lo que hace que sólo esté presente en individuos varones y que se trasmita prácticamente sin cambios de padres a hijos, estableciendo linajes ...
Villaescusa Urbaneja, Patricia
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Mutual fund performance in Slovenia : an analysis of mutual funds with investment policies in Europe and the energy sector [PDF]
This paper examines the risk and return performance of mutual funds in Slovenia from 2005 until August 2009. The research is limited to the regional investment policies in Europe and the energy sector.
Markovič-Hribernik, Tanja, Vek, Uroš
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Did the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act Reduce the State's Unauthorized Immigrant Population? [PDF]
We test for an effect of Arizona’s 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on the proportion of the state population characterized as foreign-born, as non-citizen, and as non-citizen Hispanic. We use the synthetic control method to select a group of states
Bohn, Sarah +2 more
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The Peoples and Languages of Chile [PDF]
This article initiates a series in which the writer will attempt to summarize the scattered and commonly contradictory material on the present ethnic and linguistic constituency of a number of Latin American countries.
Brand, Donald
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Etxeak of memory: the Basque diaspora in the Oroitzapenak oral history project [PDF]
Throughout the verdant hills of the Pyrenees, the foundation of Basque culture is built on the foundations of the etxeak - the immense houses that form the centerpiece of Basque farms and symbolize the incredible cultural inheritance of the Basque people.
Anderson, Jill N. (Jill Nagy)
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An ontology of ethnicity based upon personal names: with implications for neighbourhood profiling [PDF]
Understanding of the nature and detailed composition of ethnic groups remains key to a vast swathe of social science and human natural science. Yet ethnic origin is not easy to define, much less measure, and ascribing ethnic origins is one of the most ...
Mateos, P
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In the mountains of Eastern Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, Western North Carolina, Eastern Kentucky, and Southeastern Ohio lived a mystery people commonly referred to as the Melungeons.
Hall, John C.
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