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The Holocaust in Vilkaviškis County: the Fate of Pilviškiai Jewish Community in 1941

Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2011
Until summer 1941, Pilviškiai was one of the important locations populated with Litvaks (Lithuanian Jews) in Užnemunė (the area on the left bank of the River Nemunas) and in Vilkaviškis County.
Stanislovas Buchaveckas
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International Environmental Agreements: Emissions Trade, Safety Valves and Escape Clauses [PDF]

Revue économique, 2010
We explain how the structure of multi-national or multi-regional environmental agreements affect their chance of success. Trade in emissions permits has ambiguous and in some cases surprising effects on both the equilibrium level of abatement, and on the ability to persuade nations or regions to participate in environmental agreements. An escape clause
Karp, Larry, Zhao, Jinhua
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The Importance of Escape Clauses: Firm Response to Thin Capitalization Rules

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
Escape clauses, where small firms are exempt from particular tax rules, is a crucial feature of a number of corporate tax schemes, but creates incentives to avoid taxation by manipulating the measures that determine inclusion. We evaluate the impact of thin capitalization rules, which commonly feature such escape clauses, by exploiting the introduction
Andresen, Martin Eckhoff, Thorvaldsen, Lars   +1 more
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Main clause external constituents and the derivation of subject-initial verb Second [PDF]

, 2018
This paper discusses V3-patterns with a sentence-initial adverbial clause in Standard Dutch (StD) and West-Flemish (WF), which appear to violate the V2 restriction which normally regulates word order in these languages.
Greco, Ciro, Haegeman, Liliane
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LAW-LANGUAGE: THE CHALLENGE OF THE CAVEAT ‘WHENEVER REASONABLY PRACTICABLE’ IN LANGUAGE POLICIES

Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching
The challenge of escape clauses in various policies has been a longstanding issue for policy scholars worldwide. This challenge is also prevalent in South African institutions, particularly in their language policies. This article reports on the findings
Malesela Montle, Tebogo Johannes Kekana
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Evaluation and Meta-Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Victim-Oriented Legal Reform in Europe

Criminologie, 2000
The 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, and the Council of Europe's Recommendation (85) 11 on the Position of the Victim in the Framework of Criminal Law and Procedure are important documents that ...
Marion Brienen, Ernestine Hoegen, Marc Groenhuijsen   +2 more
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On the Absence of Certain Island Effects in Mende

Languages
The distinction between weak and strong islands has been extensively explored in the literature from both a descriptive and analytical perspective. In this paper, I document and analyze island constructions and constraints in Mende, an understudied Mande
Jason D. Smith
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Improvement in the English Translations of Albrecht von Haller's Usong (1771)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The political novel Usong (1771), written by the Swiss physiologist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), is set in the fifteenth century and tells the story of a Mongolian prince who becomes the Emperor of Persia and redesigns the government of his empire to promote the happiness of his subjects.
Laura Tarkka
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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
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The EU’s (not so) cheap talk on defence

European Law Open
This editorial critically examines the European Union’s rearmament agenda, framed by the Commission’s Readiness 2030 plan and the Security Action for Europe (SAFE) Regulation, in response to geopolitical threats and possible US disengagement.
Marco Dani, Agustín José Menéndez Menéndez   +1 more
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