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Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Automated AI for real-time sperm selection in ICSI: reducing variability and studying the role of sperm in embryo development. [PDF]

open access: yesReprod Biol Endocrinol
Carrión-Sisternas L   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Toward a global repository of insect traits (GRIT)

open access: yesInsect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Biodiversity loss is accelerating, yet insect conservation is hindered by the absence of a centralised, comprehensive trait database. We propose the GRIT, a FAIR, open‐access platform uniting datasets and collaborators worldwide. GRIT will harness advanced computational tools for trait acquisition and imputation, enabling large‐scale ecological ...
Pedro Cardoso   +37 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resilience of riparian spiders to floods: evidence from a mesocosm study

open access: yesInsect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Mesocosm experiment to assess the impact of flood duration on flood‐naïve riparian spider communities. In May, spider richness decreased with flood duration, while in June, flood duration increased abundance, richness and promoted wetland specialists. Flood‐naïve riparian spiders unexpectedly appear highly resilient to flooding.
Stephane Mutel   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Leadership Skills: The Conditional Impact of Self‐Directed Protean Career Orientation on Leader Identity Formation

open access: yesInternational Journal of Training and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how leadership skills contribute to leader identity formation through prosocial impact at work and how this process is shaped by self‐directed protean career orientation (PCO). Drawing on the identity‐development spiral model, we conceptualize consideration and initiating structure as core leadership skills and examine ...
Shohei Hayashi, Kohei Saito
wiley   +1 more source

Oral glucocorticoid patterns use in moderate to severe active SLE: insights from the Spanish SPOCS data. [PDF]

open access: yesLupus Sci Med
Rua-Figueroa I   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Methodological Challenges of Measuring the Duration of Strikes: Insights From Canada 1960–2024

open access: yesIndustrial Relations Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the methodological challenges involved with measuring the duration of strikes. On the one hand, several studies opt to calculate the average ‘duration’ of stoppages by dividing the number of working days lost by the maximum number of employees involved in work stoppages.
Andy Hodder
wiley   +1 more source

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