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Distant Voices Then and Now: The Impact of Isolation on the Courtroom Narratives of Slave Ship Captives and Asylum Seekers [PDF]
, 2018 Part I compares the nineteenth century cases of the Antelope and the Amistad to identify why they resulted in different outcomes despite having similar fact patterns.
Patel, Tara
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The mechanism of labor in nonhuman primates: A look inside
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract While in humans, the flexed position of the fetus and its rotating course down the birth canal are well documented, in other primates the mechanism of labor is unknown. Despite the lack of comparative data, it is commonly assumed that the human obstetric mechanism is unique, and anthropologists have disputed when and why the transition to the ...
Melissa K. Stoller
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L’Année du MaghrebThis article explores the case North Africans and, more broadly, Ottomans that Christian corsairs enslaved in the Mediterranean during the 18th century.
M’hamed Oualdi
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The cortical bone structure of long bone diaphyses changes throughout growth via skeletal modeling and has important implications for bone strength and structural integrity. Ontogenetic trends in diaphyseal structure have been identified in both chimpanzees and humans but it is not yet clear how these trends compare given notable differences ...
Karen R. Swan +3 more
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Captives: A paper-theatre film
A paper-theatre film in which a platypus and a naturalist discuss colonial collection ...
Dovey, C, Sadokierski, Z
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Three‐dimensional digital analysis of musteloid masticatory muscle architecture
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Musteloids span an enormous breadth of dietary modes within a single superfamily. In this study, we utilize digital dissection techniques to reconstruct the internal 3D anatomy of muscles within the musteloid feeding apparatus, and explore how dietary specializations might alter the size, orientation, and curvature of fascicles therein.
Cassidy E. Davis +6 more
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Minorías prósperas en la economía corsaria literaria
Rassegna Iberistica, 2018 Spanish literature written by captives or about captivity in North Africa distinguished itself from the majority of Spanish Golden Age works because of its positive portrayal of Jews.
Gordon, Michael
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Optimal risk financing in large corporations through insurance captives [PDF]
A captive is an insurance or reinsurance company established by a parent group to finance its own risks. Captives mix internal risk pooling between the business units of the parent group and risk transfer toward the reinsurance market.
Jean Pinquet, Pierre Picard
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Les captives de réassurance : une nouvelle approche de la gestion des risques
, 2005 Captives were created until 1970’ s and were imagined to optimize risks management of great industrial, financial or insurance firms. After taking lots of initiatives and capturing a large growing part of worldwide insurance premiums, doubt and ...
Jimenez, Christian, Mahot, Bertrand
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Evolutionary morphology of the haplorhine hamate
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Primates adopt a variety of hand postures during an impressive diversity of locomotor and manipulative behaviors. Morphological research has found that elements of the hand skeleton, such as the hamate, hold key information for inferring hand use and locomotor kinematics in extinct species.
Laura E. Hunter +4 more
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