“The Pause That Refreshes”: American Servicemen on R&R in Australia, 1967–1971
Nearly 10% of the 3 million Americans who served in Vietnam spent one week of “R&R” leave in Australia—principally in Sydney. This “friendly invasion” constitutes a substantial neglected legacy of the conflict. Across dozens of oral history interviews and memoirs, US servicemen recall with fondness their week‐long respite in a nation that was at once ...
Chris Dixon, Jon Piccini
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Effect of PUFAs-ω3 and ω6 on oxidative stress of sheep erythrocytes. [PDF]
Pasciu V+5 more
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Population dynamics of blue sheepPseudois nayaurin Ningxia Helan Mountain National Nature Reserve, China [PDF]
Mingchun Zhang+7 more
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Gender and reactions to speeches in German parliamentary debates
Abstract Are nonverbal reactions during parliamentary debate gendered? Do male and female members of parliament (MPs) experience applause or jeering differently? In short, yes, and the gendered nature of a speech matters. Using an original corpus of over 544,000 speeches given in German state parliaments, we first estimate the gendered nature of ...
Elliott Ash+2 more
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Genomic insights into runs of homozygosity, effective population size and selection signatures in Iranian meat and dairy sheep breeds. [PDF]
Yousefi Z+4 more
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Abstract This study examines the continuity and change in harvesting practices between the Late Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB) and the Early Pottery Neolithic at Qminas, north‐western Levant, through a traceological analysis of flint sickles. By combining qualitative traceological analysis with quantitative functional approaches, we demonstrate that ...
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Moniezia benedeni infection promoting ICOS<sup>+</sup> T cell proliferation in sheep (Ovis aries) small intestine. [PDF]
Wang B+10 more
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A progressive tremorgenic syndrome characterised by ataxia and head nodding is well documented in sheep and cattle affected by chronic Phalaris toxicosis (CPT), and is increasingly documented in the eastern grey kangaroo {(EGK), Macropus giganteus} in southeastern Australia.
C El‐Hage+7 more
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The role of host mobility in the transmission and spread of Echinococcus granulosus: A Chile-based mathematical modeling approach. [PDF]
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A contemporary map of Fasciola hepatica distribution in sheep and cattle in New South Wales
Fasciola hepatica is a global threat to livestock production, human health, and food security. Infection causes significant reductions in milk production and quality, feed conversion efficiency, wool quality, and reproductive performance. In New South Wales (NSW), Australia, data on the distribution of F. hepatica are more than 50 years out of date and
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