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Optimised PCR assays for detecting elusive waterfowl from environmental DNA. [PDF]
We developed primers for the detection of true geese and swan species using environmental DNA (eDNA) and optimised a PCR protocol for eDNA. We show that eDNA is effective at detecting geese and swans without the need to disturb the animals, providing an alternative method for determining occupancy and distribution of large waterfowl.
Honka J +4 more
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Abstract The literature on the recent exponential growth of the extractive industry in Latin America and beyond has documented the various processes through which this sector has been empowered to expand its frontier, as well as the strategies that affected communities employ to resist it.
Karine Vanthuyne, Marie Christine Dugal
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Profils d’un lectorat: Enquête sur les signatures d’énigmes du Mercure de France (1724‐1778)
Abstract Little is known about the distribution of ancien régime French periodicals and there are few sources on readers’ geographical origins and social positions. Most studies rely on subscriber lists, but subscription is not the only possible mode of acquisition.
Timothée Léchot
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The dissemination of mesmerism in Germany (1784–1815): Some patterns of the circulation of knowledge
Abstract Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815), a physician who graduated from the University of Vienna, invented a therapy based on the concept of a universal fluid, similar to electricity, that flowed through all living things. By restoring the circulation of this fluid in the nerves of human bodies, he believed he could cure illness without resorting to ...
Claire Gantet
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Alcohol policy in Chile: a systematic review of policy developments and evaluations
Abstract Aims To comprehensively review enacted and proposed alcohol laws and existing impact evaluations of national alcohol policies in Chile. Methods We searched enacted laws in the Chilean National Library of Congress, proposed laws in the websites of the House of Deputies and Senate and impact evaluations in PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, Scielo,
Sebastián Peña +5 more
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Conversion, family, and authority in seventeenth-century Saumur [PDF]
Episodes of conversion in early modern France could lay bare conceptions of community and authority that underpinned state and society. The conversion of the twelve-year-old daughter of a Huguenot apothecary to Catholicism at Saumur in 1642 serves as an ...
Marr, Scott M.
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During the period 1764-1821, 196 men served as intendants in the viceroyalty of New Spain. Among these men, one hundred were appointed provisionaly. This important presence of temporary intendants isn’t a specific fact in the intendancy because we find ...
Marie-Pierre Lacoste
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Although Italy had been the most popular destination for architects seeking an education since the 16th century, after the Thirty Years’ War France became increasingly important, and ended up taking over this mantle in the second half of the 18th century.
Anna-Victoria Bognár
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According to a consensus view in philosophy, "deciding" and "intending" are synonymous expressions. Researchers have recently challenged this view with the discovery of a counterexample in which ordinary speakers attribute deciding without intending. The aim of this paper is to investigate the strengths and limits of this discovery.
Nolte, Alexandra +3 more
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Jean-Baptiste Patoulet, un administrateur au service de l’empire français
Jean-Baptiste Patoulet is one of the first administrators colonial. He is sent by the king during the birth of the French empire of America and he became the second intendant of it while the colonial organization formalize.
Céline Melisson
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