De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
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The Transformative Effect of Training on Informed Consent: A Comparative Study Among Medical Postgraduate Researchers. [PDF]
CureusMirza MA, Suravaram S, Siddiqui IA.
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Why Is Exclusivity in Broadcasting Rights Prevalent and Why Does Simple Regulation Fail?
The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pay‐TV firms compete both downstream to attract viewers and upstream to acquire broadcasting rights. Because profits inherited from downstream competition satisfy a convexity property, allocating rights to the dominant firm maximizes the industry profit.
David Martimort, Jerome Pouyet
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Revisiting the Cerebellum's Linguistic Role: Evidence for Cerebellar Involvement in Expressive Syntax. [PDF]
CerebellumEsver M, Cloud C, Hilger A, Brennan C.
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that the growing space for industrial policies, at least in its present form and shape, is unlikely to promote sustainable development in most Global South countries, especially in the smaller economies. This claim builds on those who have thought about structural transformations for and from the Global South throughout ...
Nicolás M. Perrone
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Construction and application of knowledge graph for seed quality standard documents. [PDF]
Sci RepYang Z, He Q, Zhang J.
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“Green Developmentalism” and the Role of International Law in Negotiating the Energy Transition
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Policy evolutions in North American and European capitals have prompted debates about ongoing shifts in global economic governance from a primary emphasis on promoting markets to a more extensive role for the state in steering economic relations.
Lorenzo Cotula
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Rebuilding the Ladder? Contemporary Contests Over Industrial Policy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Does the greater embrace of industrial policy globally signal the emergence of a New Washington Consensus? We show that the multiplication of industrial policies, while consequential, signals neither normalisation nor consensus. Rather, industrial policy is increasingly the object of contestation over norms and practices of state ...
Ilias Alami, Jack Taggart, Tom Chodor
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The Implicit and Explicit Prosody of the Focus Operator <i>yinwei</i> (Because) in Chinese Complex Sentences. [PDF]
Behav Sci (Basel)Zhang L.
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Exemption Clauses in Contracts: Historical and Comparative Law Analysis
, 2005 "In general, exemption clauses are stipulations according to which one or both parties to a contract will not be liable in the case of breach1 of one or more of its (their) obligations. These clauses are also known as exculpatory, exoneration, limitation, or exclusion clauses. In the present paper I will use these words interchangeably.
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