Biographical Sketch of Spencer Fullerton Baird [PDF]
, 1996 Spencer Fullerton Baird was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, February 3, 1823. In 1834 he was sent to a Quaker boarding-school kept by Dr. McGraw, at Port Deposit, Maryland, and the year following to the Reading Grammar School. In 1836 he entered Dickinson
Goode, George Brown
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Nineteenth-Century Bahia\u27s Passion for British Salted Cod: From the Seas of Newfoundland to the Portuguese Shops of Salvador\u27s Cidade Baixa, 1822-1914 [PDF]
, 2015 Dried cod has played a similar role to sugar in the international chain of commerce. It became a major traded commodity between British North America (Newfoundland, Nova Scotia Gaspe) in the nineteenth century.
Herold, Marc W.
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Putting a Price on Whales To Save Them: What Do Morals Have To Do with It? [PDF]
, 2013 The author explores the moral implication of a proposal to create an international market in whale shares as an alternative to the dysfunctional International Whaling Commission.
Babcock, Hope M.
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Migrants’ experiences of material and emotional security in rural Scotland: implications for longer-term settlement [PDF]
, 2017 Drawing on qualitative research with Central and East European (CEE) migrants living and working in rural areas of Scotland, this article explores what it is that facilitates a desire to stay longer term and how this relates to theorisations of social ...
Flynn, Moya, Kay, Rebecca
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A quantum of solace? European peace movements during the Cold War and their elective affinities [PDF]
, 2009 The article discusses the European dimension of antinuclear protests in Europe during the Cold War. In conceptual terms, explanations of peace movement mobilisation during the early 1980s as result of a value change to post-materialist values are ...
Ziemann, Benjamin
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Challenges in moving from macro to micro: Population and family structures in ageing societies [PDF]
Assumptions are often made about how population ageing on the macro level has altered generational structures of families at the micro level. The purpose of this paper is to increase the awareness of challenges and potential pitfalls in bridging the two ...
Gunhild Hagestad, Katharina Herlofson
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Application of LANDSAT imagery for snow mapping in Norway [PDF]
The author has identified the following significant results. It was shown that if the snow cover extent was determined from all four LANDSAT bands, there were significant differences in results.
Odegaard, H., Ostrem, G.
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Boom and Bust of the spanish Economy [PDF]
Spain has experienced many financial crises through its history. These financial crises have varied origins. However, they do have common threads. The current recession and subsequent debt crisis follow the same pattern.
Tomer Shachmurove, Yochanan Shachmurove
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Deliberate Extinction: Whether to Destroy the Last Smallpox Virus [PDF]
, 2004 The target problem to be examined is smallpox. Specifically, what should we (the United States and the entire world) now do with the last known residual samples of the virus that causes this uniquely horrific disease?
Koplow, David A.
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The Network Zoo: a multilingual package for the inference and analysis of gene regulatory networks. [PDF]
Genome Biol, 2023 Ben Guebila M +24 more
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