Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704
Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
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Laboratory Analysis of VOC Emissions from Structural Materials in Wildland-Urban Interface Fires. [PDF]
Dresser W +5 more
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The Place for Form in Wollheim's Lectures on Formalism and Pictorial Organization
Abstract At the time of his death, Richard Wollheim was writing a short book on Formalism and Pictorial Organization. Much of it, but by no means all of it, had been published before (it has come out posthumously in its entirety in late 2025). Here I do two things. First, I have provided a rather detailed exegesis concentrating on the parts of the book
Gary Kemp
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A Terrain Perception Method for Quadruped Robots Based on Acoustic Signal Fusion. [PDF]
Hong M +11 more
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ABSTRACT The global decline in salmonid stocks has increased the need for knowledge of local adaptations and life history strategies of salmonids. In this study, we used radio‐telemetry tracking data from sea trout populations in two large high‐latitude rivers to model upstream spawning migration speed of trout in response to prevailing environmental ...
L. Lähteenmäki +8 more
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Malnutrition increases the risk of atrial fibrillation. [PDF]
Huang M +10 more
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Statistical mechanics of Bose gas in Sierpinski carpets [PDF]
Joe P. Chen
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Threatened cockatoo adapts foraging strategy to survive habitat loss from fire
Fire regimes are changing across the globe as a result of human‐induced climate change. For granivorous bird species, changes in fire regimes can affect seed availability and the persistence of populations. We investigated the foraging behaviour of Glossy Black Cockatoos Calyptorhynchus lathami halmaturinus, a resource specialist, following large‐scale
Patricia Mooney +3 more
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Noncompleted Matches in Professional Women's Tennis (1975-2024): Epidemiology, Trends, and Associated Factors of Walkovers and Defaults. [PDF]
Peña V, Baiget E, Pluim BM, Casals M.
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The Spatial Anatomy of Working at Home: Concepts, Measures and Types of Spaces Used
ABSTRACT This article provides a spatial analysis of working at home. It makes distinctions according to the extent to which the boundaries of work and home spatially overlap. Using this conceptual lens, it deploys data from Britain′s Skills and Employment Survey to track the trends and patterns of homeworking and hybrid working over the last two ...
Alan Felstead +5 more
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