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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the last several years, disaster insurance programs around the world have experienced disruptions that many observers interpret to be a primary symptom of “climate crisis” (Bittle 2024). Governments have responded to these disruptions through disjointed and at times contradictory measures: they treat disasters, alternately, as “Acts of God”
Stephen J. Collier
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Boston University Wind Ensemble, October 10, 2013 [PDF]
, 2013 This is the concert program of the Boston University Wind Ensemble performance on Thursday, October 10, 2013 at 8:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.
School of Music, Boston University
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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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Spartan Daily, May 17, 1945 [PDF]
, 1944 Volume 33, Issue 137https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/3617/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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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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Abacus, EarlyView.This paper develops a framework for understanding how key audit matters (KAMs) can be factored into investors’ risk assessments. Detailed interviews with seasoned investors representing international and regional asset managers and owners confirm that the number and type of reported KAMs are not ‘priced’ directly.
Warren Maroun +2 more
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Boston University Chamber Orchestra, October 27, 2014 [PDF]
, 2013 This is the concert program of the Boston University Chamber Orchestra performance on Monday, October 27, 2014 at 8:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Symphony No.
School of Music, Boston University
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Animal Conservation, EarlyView.We used pattern recognition software to correct misidentifications in a 15‐year photographic database of the last, vulnerable West African giraffe population in Niger. After revealing substantial methodological errors that had inflated population estimates by nearly 19%, we corrected individual encounter histories and applied capture‐mark‐recapture ...
Mara Vukelić +8 more
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Glass eels and viruses – a lesson learnt from stocking the eastern German Baltic Sea coast
Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, Accepted Article., 2022 Abstract Concerns about Anguillid herpesvirus 1 (AngHV‐1) in European eels, especially due to stocking measures, is increasingly coming into focus and raises questions regarding disease monitoring and prevention. In the past, stocking of AngHV‐1‐positive eels into waters assumed AngHV‐1‐free has led to a rapid increase of infected eels in the wild. For
Laura Kullmann +3 more
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On Aristotle and Baldness: topic, reference, presupposition of existence, and negation [PDF]
, 2006 This paper is a contribution to the never settled debate on reference, negation and presupposition of existence in the linguistic/philosophical literature.
Brandtler, Johan
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