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Warm Soil, Westerly Wind, and Wet Feet: Feeling and Measuring Ecological Time in the Roman World. [PDF]
Abstract Although climate change, pollution, and environmental degradation are contemporary problems, these are also challenges with deep historic roots in antiquity. 2,000 years ago, during the Roman Climate Optimum, a period of unusually warm, wet, and stable temperatures in the Mediterranean from roughly 200 BCE to 150 CE, the Romans altered the ...
Tally-Schumacher KJ.
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PROBUĐENA VARAŽDINSKA BAŠTINA (U PET EMBLEMA)
PROBUĐENA VARAŽDINSKA BAŠTINA (U PET EMBLEMA)
Cvetnić, Sanja, Sanja Cvetnić
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Geographic range size and extinction risk assessment in nomadic species. [PDF]
Abstract Geographic range size is often conceptualized as a fixed attribute of a species and treated as such for the purposes of quantification of extinction risk; species occupying smaller geographic ranges are assumed to have a higher risk of extinction, all else being equal.
Runge CA +4 more
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Assessment of listing and categorisation of animal diseases within the framework of the Animal Health Law (Regulation (EU) No 2016/429): paratuberculosis. [PDF]
Abstract Paratuberculosis has been assessed according to the criteria of the Animal Health Law (AHL), in particular criteria of Article 7 on disease profile and impacts, Article 5 on the eligibility of paratuberculosis to be listed, Article 9 for the categorisation of paratuberculosis according to disease prevention and control rules as in Annex IV and
EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW) +27 more
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Monuments to Mestizaje and the Commemoration of Racial Democracy in Puerto Rico
Abstract In this paper, I argue that monuments to mestizaje (miscegenation) in Puerto Rico reaffirm the myth of a harmonious mixture between the White Spaniard, Black African, and Indigenous Taíno. This racial triad, originally conceived in the nineteenth century, was institutionalized in 1956 by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture to legitimize the ...
Rafael V. Capó García
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Populist things. A study on the materiality of political ideas
Abstract Is there such thing as a populist thing? This article tries to answer this question by comparing two iconic populist objects: the Make America Great Again (MAGA) cap and the yellow vest. Despite their centrality to populist politics, there is remarkably little systematic examination of these objects' populist affordances, let alone a ...
Filipe Carreira da Silva +1 more
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Ketocarotenoid pigments synthesized from dietary yellow carotenoids produce red colorations in many vertebrates. In birds, this transformation can be made peripherally (integument) or centrally (hepatic conversion). We hypothesize that this depends on the ornament type (plumage vs. bare parts) following a pattern that avoids production costs.
Carlos Alonso‐Alvarez +4 more
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A Fatherland of Free Men. Virility and ‘Frailty’ in Spanish Liberalism (1808–1814)
Abstract The ideal of the patriotic citizen‐soldier familiar from civic humanism re‐emerged in Spain in the context of the Napoleonic Wars. Spaniards were required to uphold a model of masculinity that was continually threatened by ‘effeminacy’. The study of this model is approached through an analysis of literary texts: the main neoclassical tragedies
Xavier Andreu‐Miralles
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Se ha realizado este trabajo sobre el emblema de aptitud física con objeto de ver la importancia que dentro de la educación física femenina han tenido y tienen las pruebas de aptitud. Nos interesa comprobar la preparación física de las niñas españolas y su evolución a partir de la edad escolar en que generalmente empiezan a realizarse.
Puig Roig, María del Carmen
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How Gabriel Harvey read tragedy*
Abstract In 1579, Gabriel Harvey bound together in a composite collection a surprising group of texts: an Italian grammar, an Italian translation of Terence’s comedies, Lodovico Dolce’s Italian rifacimenti of Euripides’ Medea and Seneca’s Thyestes, and Euripides’ Hecuba and Iphigenia in Erasmus’ Latin.
Tania Demetriou
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