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Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.Quantifying how individuals differ as their environment changes around them is crucial to predict population responses to climate change. By incorporating personality, physiology and life‐history the authors show that while environmental change is likely to impact the whole population equally, when individuals are most impacted will vary across the ...
Frederick C. Mckendrick +6 more
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The Makings of a Racial Vanguard : Black American Transactional Engagement 1848 – 1922 [PDF]
Despite the seemingly evident nature of the connection between Black Americans and Africans, their relationship developed from radically different contexts.
Kleitman, Sebastien
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German Jewish refugees in Los Angeles: a Jewish Club and the Americanization process from 1938-1943 [PDF]
, 2005 This thesis covers the history of the Jewish Club of 1933, Inc. of Los Angeles during a time span from 1938 to 1943. The Jewish Club was founded by German Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution and its early years were characterized by the provision of ...
Schenderlein, Anne Clara
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Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.We provide a framework for extending commonly used integrated population models to a metapopulation framework for testing novel ecological hypotheses about how changing environmental conditions within and among subpopulations drive changes in animal abundance.
Alexander R. Schindler +5 more
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Victor Henri Ducange: a participant in French restoration life and its interpreter [PDF]
, 1961 Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University.The Restoration period of French history is characterized by a fundamental dichotomy. Evidences of this found reflection in social relationships, in political life and, distortedly, in literature. France was governed
Minor, Lucian Weld
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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MFN Relations with Communist Countries: Is the Two-Decade Old System Working, or Should It Be Revised or Repealed? [PDF]
, 1999 Most Favored Nation (\u27MEN ) trade status has been a cornerstone of U.S. trade policy since 1934, and it is extended to all nations except those specifically denied MFN status by U.S. law.
McLarty, Taunya L.
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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The predatory behavior of ants: an impressive panoply of morphological adaptations
Insect Science, EarlyView.This review focuses on predation in ants, showing the wide diversity of cases from solitary foraging to group hunting tactics, as well as the evolution of mandible shape frequently adapted to capture specific prey. Although most ants are generalist feeders, finding their sugary substances directly on plants or indirectly via sap‐sucking insects, some ...
Alain Dejean +6 more
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