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Coming into the Anthropocene [PDF]
, 2014 This essay reviews Professor Jonathan Cannon’s Environment in the Balance. Cannon’s book admirably analyzes the Supreme Court’s uptake of, or refusal of, the key commitments of the environmental-law revolution of the early 1970s.
Chey, Chan Oeurn +6 more
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Air vehicle simulator: an application for a cable array robot [PDF]
, 2005 The development of autonomous air vehicles can be an expensive research pursuit. To alleviate some of the financial burden of this process, we have constructed a system consisting of four winches each attached to a central pod (the simulated air vehicle)
Carnie, Ryan +4 more
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The Legal Status of Gibraltar: Whose Rock is it Anyway? [PDF]
, 1994 This Note argues that the right to self-determination, as expressed in Resolution 1514, empowers the people of Gibraltar with the right to determine their own destiny.
Lincoln, Simon J.
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The Failure of Agency-Forcing: The Regulation of Airborne Carcinogens Under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act [PDF]
, 1985 Professor Graham analyzes section 112 of the Clean Air Act, a provision intended by Congress to achieve ambitious regulatory ends by constraining agency discretion.
Graham, John D.
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Indian Days and Burmese Nights: Flying Beaufighters in Southeast Asia with 177 RAF Squadron [PDF]
, 2012 This narrative is part of a longer one of personal reminiscences of my experiences in the RCAF during the Second World War and only concerns my operational tour flying Beaufighters with 177 Squadron, Royal Air Force, in Southeast Asia from early March ...
Brown, A. Sutherland
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Assessing Past and Future Temperature‐ and Precipitation‐Based Indicators in the Republic of Yemen
International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.For the first time in the literature, this work assesses the past and future climatic trends over Yemen, a highly vulnerable country for which science‐based, high‐quality information for the development of climate change adaptation plans was not available until now.
Jorge Alvar‐Beltrán +5 more
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International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.A transient ensemble of convection‐permitting climate simulations is used to compute bias‐corrected user‐relevant climate indices for Germany under recent and future climate conditions, both considering high spatial resolution and uncertainty estimations. For high temperature indices, a clear increase is observed, for example, for hot days and tropical
Joaquim G. Pinto +6 more
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Flying Desert Rat: The Combat Career of Squadron Leader Bert Houle [PDF]
, 2012 Albert Houle is a Canadian whose war, while not totally unique for a Canadian fighter pilot in World War Two, was certainly far from the norm. His entire combat career was fought in North Africa, Sicily and Italy.
Evans, Christopher
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International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.Drought spatiotemporal propagation and direct driving variables are assessed at multiple time steps with high spatial resolution using various drought indices (SPI, SPEI and SPDI) and entropy based mutual information under an ensemble of climate change projections over Tunisia. ABSTRACT Projecting drought occurrence and spatiotemporal propagation under
Haykel Sellami
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