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Abstract Four new species of the small‐sized armoured catfish genus Pareiorhina are described from mountain ranges in the Grande River drainage, upper Paraná River basin, based on morphological and molecular species delimitation methods. Molecular analyses based on the cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) marker recovered Pareiorhina as polyphyletic ...
Pedro L. C. Uzeda +6 more
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Drawings and Scale Models Used in Building the Spanish Royal Sites
In 1545 Emperor Charles V created the Board of Works and Forests to define and control all the building projects promoted by the Crown. As a result, the administration of the royal estates was updated and modernised due to its pyramidal structure.
Pilar Chías, Tomás Abad
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Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma
ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
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The history of the events surrounding the 1929 acquisition of a first edition of the only English-language version of an important 16th-century Latin scientific work translated by an American mining engineer and future President of the United ...
Jensen, William B.
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Aspects of the History of Plastic Surgery since the 16th Century [PDF]
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ABSTRACT This article presents a new way of obtaining deep explanations of environmental problems. We expose the production strategies, corporate strategies and state actions that have been taken by firms and state agencies to facilitate the geographical expansion of the wood‐based commodity frontier at the expense of reindeer pastoralists among the ...
David Harnesk, Lars Östlund
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If we consider that the Spanish chroniclers had gradually invented what eventually became America, as O'Gorman proposed, the Portuguese chroniclers of the first half of the 16th century were even more cautious in building an identity for the overseas ...
Susani Silveira Lemos França
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Bestowing Care and Earning Honor: Female Hospital Donors and Politics in Renaissance Rome
Through donations, both during their lives and after death, early modern women were able to influence the practice and decoration of hospitals, shape the narrative around their memories, and provide aid to the Roman community in a time in which charity ...
Jessica Hogbin
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Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
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