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Reassessing sixteenth and seventeenth century written accounts of hurricanes in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea

Weather, EarlyView.
Abstract While the North Atlantic’s five‐century hurricane history is among the most complete globally, the earliest centuries are poorly documented in the written record. This study reassesses a subset of sixteenth to seventeenth‐century tropical cyclones (TCs) through a systematic review of archival evidence, mainly from Spain’s colonial archive, the
William Gomez Pretel, Michael Chenoweth
wiley   +1 more source

Sea grasses, a new unreported habitat for the heterobranch mollusk Umbraculum umbraculum in the Caribbean region

Marine and Fishery Sciences, 2020
Herein, a new habitat for the heterobranch mollusk Umbraculum is described. One specimen was found on a Thalassia testudinum bed at Taganga Bay at 3 m depth, a buffer area of the Tayrona National Park, Colombian Caribbean.
Erika García-Bonilla, Paula González, Laura Pirateque, Jüergen Guerrero-Kommritz, Mónica Puyana, Alberto Acosta   +5 more
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Does Inequality Blur Class Lines? Meritocratic Attitudes in Comparative Perspective

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars of inequality generally find that lower‐class individuals are more skeptical of meritocratic narratives that link economic success to individual work effort. However, past research has yielded inconclusive findings about how economic inequality affects meritocratic attitudes across different class groups.
Roshan K. Pandian, Ronald Kwon
wiley   +1 more source

Global habitat suitability and invasion risk of melon thrips

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
Habitat suitability of Thrips palmi worldwide was predicted using the MaxEnt model. Precipitation of the driest month, precipitation of the wettest month and annual mean temperature were identified as the key climatic drivers influencing its distribution.
Owusu Fordjour Aidoo, Rosina Kyerematen, Emmanuel Twum, Frederick Leo Sossah, Gengping Zhu, David W. Crowder   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interannual variations in PM10 and PM2.5 due to wildfires in four air quality monitoring networks in the Colombian caribbean

Environmental Challenges
Particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5) significantly impacts air quality and public health, particularly in regions with meteorological and topographical characteristics prone to wildfires.
Roberto E. Rojano, Heli A. Arregoces, Gloria Restrepo   +2 more
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Radost Rangelova, Assistant Professor of Spanish

, 2014
In our newest Next Page column, featured reader Radost Rangelova, Assistant Professor of Spanish, shares with us what she reads for fun and the course it inspired (she had to warn the students NOT to read ahead!); one of the influential works that ...
Musselman Library,, Rangelova, Radost A.
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Global Apparel Value Chain in the Post‐MFA Era: Exploring Bangladesh's Competitive Edge

Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study revisits Bangladesh's competitive edge by examining patterns of global apparel trade during the post‐Multi‐Fibre Arrangement (MFA) era using a large bilateral panel of 27 leading apparel exporters trading with 163 destinations with coverage of 90% of the world apparel exports.
Abul Bashar Mohammed Fakhruzzaman
wiley   +1 more source

A Review of Corporate Reporting Transparency Quality: Current Status and Future Directions

Australian Accounting Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper critically assesses the current state of the literature and sets an agenda for future research on Corporate Reporting Transparency Quality (CRTQ) in formal corporate reporting. Employing a systematic literature review approach that follows the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‐Analyses (PRISMA) model and ...
Yashodha Madhavi Hewage, Arusha Cooray, Rafiuddin Ahmed   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lichen diversity in colombian caribbean dry forest remnants

Caldasia, 2019
We present a first study of the diversity and community composition of lichens in seasonally dry tropical forest (DTF) remnants in the Atlántico department, Colombia. Lichens were sampled in two of the three protected areas of the department: Distrito de Manejo Integrado (DMI) Luriza and Reserva Forestal Protectora (RFP) El Palomar.
Lücking, Robert, Moncada, Bibiana, Martínez-Habibe, María Cristina, Salgado-Negret, Beatriz E., Celis, Marcela, Rojas-Zamora, Oscar, Rodríguez-M, Gina M., Brokamp, Grischa, Borsch, Thomas   +8 more
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Structural Interdependence among Colombian Departments [PDF]

This paper advances on the analysis of the structural interdependence among Colombian departments. The results show that Bogotá has a large influence in the other regional economies through its purchasing power.
Eduardo A. Haddad, Fernando S. Perobelli, Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, Jaime Bonet   +3 more
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