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Forging Insights: Indian Agency Blacksmiths of the American Frontier [PDF]
, 2020 Following the War of 1812, the United States government sought to more directly deal with the Native tribes in the American interior. The establishment of Indian agency blacksmith shops was one significant component of this endeavor.
Novey, Adam G
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Socio‐psychological determinants of beekeeper conflict with bee‐eaters
Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.This study investigates factors influencing beekeepers’ use of lethal control against native bee‐eaters in Iran using the theory of planned behavior. Experience, social norms, intentions, and economic dependence significantly predicted using lethal control methods.
Danial Nayeri +8 more
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Guns, Inc.: Citizens United, McDonald, and the Future of Corporate Constitutional Rights [PDF]
, 2011 The Supreme Court began its 2009 Term by addressing the constitutional rights of corporations. It ended the Term by addressing the incorporated rights of the Constitution. In Citizens United v.
Miller, Darrell A. H.
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Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
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Do Major Customers Affect Firms' Environmental, Social and Governance Activities?
European Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the role of major customers in shaping firms' environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices. We find that firms with major customer relationships undertake fewer ESG activities compared to those without such ties. The association is attenuated when institutional ownership is high, firms are less diversified, customers exhibit
Feng Dong +4 more
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Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.Abstract This study aimed to identify geographical distribution patterns of the giant short‐tailed river stingray Potamotrygon brachyura and the motoro stingray Potamotrygon motoro in the Uruguay River basin. Data on presence/absence of stingrays were based on fishers' knowledge accessed by interviews through expeditions in Brazil, Argentina and ...
Danilo Araujo Soares Pereira +2 more
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Suicide and Self‐Harm in Intellectual Disability: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis
Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) are disproportionately exposed to several risk factors for suicidality. However, no meta‐analysis has yet quantified the relative risk of suicide and self‐harm, including suicide attempts, within this population. The aim of this project was to bring together and synthesise the research
Sara Lindstedt +8 more
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, 2016 Chapter 7 of the book entitled 'Practical Veterinary Forensics' aims to introduce forensic veterinarians to the scientific concepts underpinning the field of firearms and ballistics.
BOLTON-KING, Rachel, Schulze, Johan
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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the effectiveness of private actors in contributing to crime prevention. We leverage well‐publicised increases in security measures, including additional security guards and tagging of goods, by Tesco, a large UK supermarket chain.
Nils Braakmann, Wednesday Croft
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“Pistol Fever”: Regulating Revolvers in Late-Nineteenth-Century Canada [PDF]
, 2009 This paper examines the debates over the regulation of pistols in Canada from confederation to the passage of nation’s first Criminal Code in 1892. It demonstrates that gun regulation has long been an important and contentious issue in Canada.
Brown, Blake
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