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History and identity across small islands : a Caribbean and a personal journey [PDF]

, 2013
This paper is largely autobiographical: the author charts his own intellectual journey across the history, culture and identity of so-called `small` islands, with a special reference to the Caribbean.
Baldacchino, Godfrey
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PORQUE APLICAR DIREITO ESTRANGEIRO

Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2014
SUMARIO: § 1º — 1. — Apresentação. 2. — O repúdio à idéia da comitas. 3 — A existência das jurisdições independentes. 4. — É preciso ver a realidade. § 2º — 5. — A necessidade do Direito Internacional Privado. 6 — Raízes históricas. 7.
Osiris Rocha
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Change management, intersectoral migration and the economic development of small island states [PDF]

, 2011
This paper argues that there is a need to better acknowledge and problematise the manner in which individuals, households, organisations and governments in small island jurisdictions develop mechanisms that allow them to exploit the benefits, and/or ...
Alesina, Armstrong, Armstrong, Baldacchino, Baldacchino, Baldacchino, Baldacchino, Baldacchino, Bates, Bennell, Bertram, Bertram, Bertram, Bongie, Bowen-Jones, Briguglio, Briguglio, Brock, Brookfield, Buker, Carnegie, Carse, Christensen, Comitas, Connell, Connell, Connell, De Soto, Delia, Dommen, Duncan, Duval, Easterly, Easterly, Farrugia, Fergus, Frucht, Halekunihi Walker, Haoatai, Hintjens, Hoare, Ishiwata, Johnson, Katzenstein, Katzenstein, Lowenthal, McElroy, McGregor, McPhetres, Mead, Nelsen, Okihiro, Penovic, Poirine, Poirine, Poon, Prasad, Putz, Reenberg, Richards, Richardson, Rodhouse, Ross, Rule, Tisdell, Treadgold, Vertovec, Wardle, Winters   +68 more
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Tapinopterus comita Jedlicka 1935

, 2015
Tapinopterus comita Jedlička, 1935 References. Tapinopterus comita: Jedlička 1935: 187 (Pelister loc. typ.); Schatzmayr 1943: 124 (Pelister); Drovenik & Peks 1994: 68 (Pelister); Drovenik & Peks 1999: 80; Bousquet 2003d: 519; Guéorguiev 2007a: 316 (west Macedonia); Guéorguiev 2007b: 164 (Pelister); Ćurčić et al. 2008: 2118 (Pelister). Material studied.
Hristovski, Slavčo, Guéorguiev, Borislav   +1 more
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The other way round : manufacturing as an extension of services in small island states [PDF]

, 1998
An earlier version of this article was presented at the VIIIth Pacific Science Inter-Congress held at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji in July 1997.Try valiantly though they might, small (often island) territories cannot possibly follow the hard-
Baldacchino, Godfrey
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Unity in diversity as Europe's vocation and conflicts law as Europe's constitutional form. IHS Political Science Series 122, December 2010 [PDF]

, 2010
"Unity in Diversity" was the fortunate motto of the otherwise unfortunate Draft Constitutional Treaty. The motto did not make it into the Treaty of Lisbon.
Joerges., Christian
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Fruit‐quality tradeoffs generate asymmetry in plant reliance on mutualistic frugivores

Oikos, EarlyView.
Seed dispersal is a fundamental ecological process influencing the evolution of plant life‐history strategies. In fleshy‐fruited plants dispersed by mutualistic frugivores, variation in fruit traits among closely related species may shape the temporal and spatial dynamics of dispersal events critical to population success.
João Vitor S. Messeder, Tomás A. Carlo
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Education and Acculturation on Malaita: An Ethnography of Intraethnic and Interethnic Affinities [PDF]

, 1988
One of the central issues in educational anthropology is the changing nature of intraethnic and interethnic conflict and relationships. Conventional modernization theory suggests that the acculturation process will tend to diminish traditional ...
Page, James S.
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Climate‐driven intraspecific shifts in seed germination phenology: Consequences for native temperate woodland restoration and regeneration

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
As climate change alters seasonal patterns, temperate tree populations face a growing risk of phenological mismatch, where seed dispersal and germination no longer align with favourable conditions for survival. This study predicted how warming by the end of the century will affect seed dormancy breaking and germination in populations of three UK tree ...
Roberta L. C. Dayrell, Charlotte E. Seal, Kaitalin White, Elena Fouce Hernandez, Pablo Gómez Barreiro, Lee Oliver, Adam Donaldson, Ted Chapman, Efisio Mattana   +8 more
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Evaluating the use of taxonomy in the IUCN Red List

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Taxonomy defines the units that conservationists strive to preserve for future generations. However, the discovery of new species and the taxonomic revision of existing species affect conservation efforts. Despite the importance of taxonomy for a species’ conservation, there is currently no overview of how those leading species extinction risk
Stephen T. Garnett, Claire E. Johnston, Phil Bowles, Les Christidis, Stijn Conix, J. W. Duckworth, Aaron Lien, Frank E. Zachos, Joeri Witteveen   +8 more
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