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PREAMBULAR HISTORY: THE VIEW OF THE PAST IN KEY HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS
History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article claims that the preambles of foundational human rights instruments, taken together, articulate a consistent view of the past. This view is firmly rooted in historical processes, embedded in metaphysical truths, and enacted in service of the future. Part 1 assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the “preambular approach to history”
Antoon De Baets
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Monetary transitions in Cabo Verde : from the escudo zone to the exchange agreement with Portugal [PDF]
, 2020 During the colonial period and within the framework of the monetary system of the Portuguese colonies, Cabo Verde lived in a situation of relative monetary and exchange stability.
Estêvão, João
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Preditores de fibrilação atrial de novo em unidade de cuidados intensivos não cardíaca [PDF]
, 2018 OBJECTIVE: To assess the predictors of de novo atrial fibrillation in patients in a non-cardiac intensive care unit. METHODS: A total of 418 hospitalized patients were analyzed between January and September 2016 in a non-cardiac intensive care unit.
Augusto, J +4 more
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History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The problem of historical realism has gained some new momentum recently, with a fresh challenge to what is taken to be an anti‐realist hegemony in the theory and philosophy of history. Unfortunately, this has also provided the opportunity for the reheating of old polemics and lazy scholarship that characterized the 1990s reaction to ...
João Ohara
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The weight of the past: trauma and testimony in Que bom te ver viva [PDF]
, 2015 This article examines representations of trauma in Lúcia Murat’s Que bom te ver viva (How Nice to See You Alive, 1989), a semi-documentary focusing on the experiences of former political militants who, like the director herself, were arrested and ...
Heise, Tatiana
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A Conversation With David Bellhouse
International Statistical Review, EarlyView.Summary David Richard Bellhouse was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 19 July 1948. He studied actuarial mathematics and statistics at the University of Manitoba (BA, 1970; MA, 1972) and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1975. After being an Assistant Professor for 1 year at his alma mater, he joined the University of Western ...
Christian Genest
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Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.Abstract A new species of Characidium is described from the Urubamba River basin, within the Ucayali‐Urubamba Piedmont ecoregion, Peru. The new species can be readily distinguished from all congeners, except Characidium cacah, Characidium chicoi, Characidium helmeri, Characidium mirim, Characidium nana, Characidium nupelia, Characidium sterbai ...
Leonardo Oliveira‐Silva +6 more
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Colorism and the Law in Latin America—Global Perspectives on Colorism Conference Remarks [PDF]
, 2015 Today, persons of African descent make up more than forty percent of the poor in Latin America and have been consistently marginalized and denigrated as undesirable elements of the society since the abolition of slavery across the Americas.
Hernandez, Tanya K.
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Legislating Uncertainty: Election Policies and the Amplification of Misinformation
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Can state election policies affect the spread of misinformation? This paper studies the role played by ballot processing policies, which determine when ballots can be examined and organized, in the online spread of political misinformation. We present evidence from the 2020 U.S.
Morgan Wack +5 more
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Reader Interaction with Graphic Devices in Early Modern English Printed Books☆
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Research into marginalia or reader annotations has become a well‐established branch of early modern book studies, shedding light on one of the ways in which manuscript and print coexisted and interacted in this period. The present study sets out to discover how readers engaged with printed graphic devices and with texts that contain such ...
Aino Liira
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