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In the widely demonized municipality of Ettadhamun, the heavy hand of Zin al Abidine Ben Ali's police state was partly lifted in 2011 and replaced by the softer touch of aid promoting international democracy. This aid architecture supported the burgeoning civil society to train Ettadhamun residents in the skill of ‘interpersonal communication’ (tawasul
Charis Boutieri
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The Mediterranean deep-sea fauna: historical evolution, bathymetric variations and geographical changes [PDF]
The deep-water fauna of the Mediterranean is characterized by an absence of distinctive characteristics and by a relative impoverishment. Both are a result of events after the Messinian salinity crisis (Late Miocene).
Emig, Christian, Geistdoerfer, Patrick
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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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The control of indirect effects of biomanipulation [PDF]
Results from long-term investigations on biomanipulation show that indirect effects are at least as important as direct effects are for the stability of biomanipulation.
Benndorf, J.
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Abstract Accountability mechanisms are often perceived as the Achilles’ heel of human rights practice. As classic human rights institutions rarely provide adequate guarantees of accountability, justice actors are increasingly turning to alternative spaces to advance accountability.
BRIGITTE HERREMANS, TINE DESTROOPER
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Staged ecologies: Aesthetics, nature and infrastructure in the late‐modern metropolis
Short Abstract This paper examines the relationship between urban nature and landscape design within a £1.5 billion regeneration project that is currently unfolding in Thamesmead, a town in south‐east London. It develops the notion of ‘staged ecologies’ to examine how urban nature is being spatially and aesthetically arranged across the town's ...
Zuhri James
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La Niña Impacts on Southeastern African Climate: The Influence of Event Duration
ABSTRACT The multiyear La Niña event of 2020–2023, which brought with it several climate disasters across the globe, sparked both mainstream and scientific interest in La Niña events, which typically have received less attention than El Niño. In southern Africa, there is a general expectation in the scientific community and among user groups that La ...
Wanjiru Thoithi +2 more
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International Scientist Mobility and the Locus of Technology Transfer [PDF]
University technology transfer has attracted considerable attention in the literature with a focus on the institutions, the agents involved in technology commercialisation or the differentiation between formal and informal technology transfer mechanisms.
Edler, Jakob +2 more
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Abstract We present unusually strong daytime signal amplitude anomalies of 11.1 dB on JJI and 12.6 dB on VTX very low‐frequency (VLF) transmitter signals recorded at Suva, Fiji, due to the powerful Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai (HTHH) volcanic eruption (VE) on 15 January 2022 around 04:00 UT.
Sushil Kumar, Sarwan Kumar, Mie Ichihara
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Transnationalisation et stratégies d’investissement [PDF]
The rapid development of transnational firms and banks during the 1960's and 1970's, and their search for increasing autonomy vis-à-vis the national governments of host countries is the main theme of this paper.
Minian, Isaac
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