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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The dataset for extending EMNIST evaluation. [PDF]
Sci DataSzymański J +4 more
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Success and failure in England's patent system: New evidence from patent applications, 1783–1834
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Our understanding of the relationship between the English patent system and technical change during the industrial revolution is based entirely on the study of successful patents. We address this feature by providing the first study of unsuccessful patent applications in England during the first industrial revolution.
Stephen D. Billington, Joe Lane
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Enhancing Hindi OCR robustness with CRNN-ResNet50: a data augmentation approach on the devanagari dataset. [PDF]
Sci RepKumar S, Sourabh S, Pati J, Kumar S.
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Women in business: Gender and commercial space in nineteenth‐century Glasgow
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Focusing on women entrepreneurs in a large British city, we examine how women's commercially listed businesses populated that city. Using commercial property rental records, our study allows us to understand sectoral variation and the distribution of businesses across the city and to assess both the absolute and relative contribution of women ...
Graeme Acheson +2 more
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Kant's Solution to the Trilemma of Concept Formation
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract According to a widespread assumption, Kant's logical account of concept formation starts with comparison, where the latter involves concepts. On this assumption, the formation of a concept presupposes other concepts, so that the argument is threatened either by circularity, regress, or break‐off.
Daniel Erlewein
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A stroke-level large-scale database of Chinese character handwriting and the OpenHandWrite_Toolbox for handwriting research. [PDF]
Behav Res MethodsXu Z +5 more
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Is Time Travel Possible? Accidental Signs as Sociolinguistic “Wormholes”
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sociolinguistics primarily focuses on deliberately staged public signs, while relatively less attention has been given to ephemeral and non‐deliberate signs in urban environments. This study investigates “ accidental signs,” which are hidden historical texts suddenly exposed by unpredictable events.
Ge SONG (宋歌)
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Integrating CNN and transformer architectures for superior Arabic printed and handwriting characters classification. [PDF]
Sci RepAl-Maamari MR +3 more
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