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Tracing holotype trajectories: Mapping the movement of the most valuable herbarium specimens
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Global efforts to protect biodiversity depend on fair access to key plant specimens. This study examines the distribution of 119,361 holotypes—unique herbarium specimens used to formally describe new plant species. By linking collection and storage data, we found that holotypes are increasingly held closer to their places of origin, particularly in ...
Dominik Tomaszewski +2 more
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Human Rights Economic Dividends: Estimating the Economic Effects of Preventing Discrimination
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Economies embracing principles like nondiscrimination are presumed to reap significant rewards, while violations incur heavy costs. We call these benefits human rights economic dividends—the economic gains that arise when policymaking is guided by human rights principles.
Jose Cuesta
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Perpetrators of Genocide: An Explanatory Model of Extraordinary Human Evil
Journal of Hate Studies, 2002 According to Jewish-Christian tradition, the first time that death appeared in the world, it was murder. Cain slew Abel. Two men, says Elie Wiesel, and one of them became a killer.1 Throughout human history, social conflict is ubiquitous.
James Waller
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study develops and tests a novel prioritization framework for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under varying geographic scales (regional, sub‐regional, national), focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as a pilot case.
Lea Issa, Mutasem El Fadel
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How important is structural transformation for poverty reduction in the region of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development? The novelty of the study lies in examining the relationship between structural transformation and poverty in the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) region using a sectoral analysis with a focus on ...
Freeman Munisi Mateko +2 more
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Guerras y expropiaciones de la época federal caucana
HISTOReLo: Revista de Historia Regional y Local, 2010 En el presente artículo se enuncian los factores explicativos de la crisis económica que afectó al Cauca durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX, y se les muestra como un efecto de los procesos económicos desarrollados durante el período colonial. Veremos
Alonso Valencia Llano
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Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Despite the importance of resource reallocation in shaping a variety of strategic outcomes, strategy scholars have paid only limited attention to the processes by which firms reallocate their resources across successive systemic innovations.
Gino Cattani +2 more
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Filmer les ruines et faire parler le présent : La Promesse de Franco de Marc Weymuller
Conserveries Mémorielles, 2017 « Civil wars are memory wars. They seem endless » declares Marc Weymuller. In his documentary film Franco’s Promise (2014), he investigates the Spanish Civil War’s effects that endure today using the specific case of Belchite village, whose history and ...
Pascale Thibaudeau
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Civil War Book ReviewTo commemorate the recent sesquicentennial of Charles Sumner’s death, this installment of “Civil War Treasures” features transcriptions of four of his letters held in the LSU Libraries Special Collections. Although not the most detailed of missives, they all date from significant periods of his tenure in the Senate: the imbroglio over the passage of ...
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Experimental analysis of bolted connections for precast concrete walls under cyclic tensile loading
Structural Concrete, EarlyView.Abstract Dry‐bolted connections in precast wall structures simplify the assembly process and offer significant advantages in terms of construction speed and cost. In fact, the reduction of the required workmanship, compared to wet connections, makes this solution highly competitive.
Ricardo Martins +5 more
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