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Spectral estimates for degenerate critical levels

open access: yes, 2005
We establish spectral estimates at a critical energy level for $h$-pseudors . Via a trace formula, we compute the contribution of isolated (non-extremum) critical points under a condition of "real principal type". The main result holds for all dimensions,
Camus, Brice
core   +1 more source

The War of the Pacific and Chilean public revenues: Reallocation of the tax burden and institutional change

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract A substantial body of literature has considered warfare a fundamental driver of fiscal capacity. We argue that the nature of the tax base available to governments can either foster or constrain the ability and incentives of central elites to impose their legitimacy once the war is over.
Oriol Sabaté, José Peres‐Cajías
wiley   +1 more source

Entre O mito de Sísifo e Sambas do absurdo: a possibilidade de revelar o absurdo através do samba

open access: yesViso, 2018
O intento deste artigo é pensar a relação que o ensaio O mito de Sísifo – publicado em 1942 por Albert Camus – e o disco Sambas do Absurdo – lançado em 2017 pelo trio: Rodrigo Campos, Juçara Marçal e Gui Amabis – mantém com o absurdo.
Vinicius Xavier Hoste
doaj   +1 more source

Absurdity and Metaphysical Rebellion in the Philosophies of Albert Camus and Omar Khayyam [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The first time Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyiat were brought to the Western world, it was through a translation from their original Persian to English by Edward Fitzgerald in 1859.
Alsatie, Lynn
core   +1 more source

Dependent Articulation in the Global Pesticide Complex: Argentina's Agrochemical Industry After the Generics Market Revolution

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the late 1990s, the pesticide industry has undergone a ‘generics revolution’ as the centre of production, and trade has shifted to the global South. China and India have become major producers, capturing Latin American markets from Northern multinationals. As a major pesticide user and a key node in global supply chains, Argentina offers
Christian Berndt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clonagem do camu-camu arbustivo em porta-enxertos de camu-camu arbustivo e arbóreo Cloning of shrubby camu-camu on shrubby and arboreal camu-camu rootstocks

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Fruticultura, 2009
O camu-camu (Myrciaria dubia (H.B.K.) McVaugh), espécie frutífera nativa da Amazônia, de porte arbustivo, é propagado, normalmente, por sementes, ocasionando grande variação na entrada em frutificação e no ciclo de produção, bem como no teor de ácido ascórbico (vitamina C) dos frutos. outra espécie de camu-camu, M. floribunda (West ex Willd.) o.
Mario Moreira Filho   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

A contribution to vision-based autonomous helicopter flight in urban environments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
A navigation strategy that exploits the optic flow and inertial information to continuously avoid collisions with both lateral and frontal obstacles has been used to control a simulated helicopter flying autonomously in a textured urban environment ...
Anadan   +33 more
core   +4 more sources

Using reflectance spectra and Pl@ntNet to identify herbarium specimens: a case study with Lithocarpus

open access: yesNew Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary The digitisation of plant collections is bringing large quantities of information into accessible electronic databases. However, in recent decades, traditional taxonomic work in collections has declined, meaning that more specimens are only determined to family or genus, particularly when lacking key identification structures.
Barbara M. Neto‐Bradley   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Albert Camus : colonisateur de bonne volonté ?

open access: yesVoix Plurielles, 2011
Cet article analyse les raisons qui expliquent l'intérêt bénévole qu'Albert Camus avait démontré à l'endroit des Kabyles dans une série de reportages publiés dans Alger Républicain en juin 1939. Malgré une dénonciation franche et sincère de la souffrance
Bousse Allouche
doaj   +3 more sources

Emotional Detachment in Albert Camus’ The Stranger: A Happy Man Drawn into Misery [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Humanistic and Social Studies, 2019
Emotional detachment is positive when it is done intentionally for the sake of achieving happiness. Meursault, the protagonist in Albert Camus’ The Stranger, is fully aware that his emotional detachment brings him happiness and peace of mind, that is ...
Iman Mahdi
doaj  

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