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Consent and the Formation of Preferences
ABSTRACT Under ideal conditions, explicit consent and related actions usually change the moral facts in a distinctive way: they make something permissible that was previously impermissible. But they don't do this if the consent is coerced. And it seems they also don't do it if the preferences on which the consent is based were formed in particular ways:
Richard Pettigrew
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The Frontiersmen as an Object of Czech Nationalism 1918–1935
ABSTRACT This study investigates the phenomenon of the frontiersmen, that is, the Czech minority border communities, as a part of the discourse of the Czech nationalist movement. Via the example of the Czechoslovak National Democracy party, it traces the frontiersmen on two levels.
Dominik Šípoš
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Endowments vs market potential: what explains the relocation of industry after the Polish reunification 1918? [PDF]
How did the location of industry across interwar Poland react to the Polish reunification? After more than 120 years of political and economic separation, Poland was reunified at the end of 1918.
Wolf, Nikolaus
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Scylla and Charybdis. The European Economy and Poland's Adherence to Gold, 1928-1936 [PDF]
This paper examines the timing of exit from the gold-exchange standard for European countries based on a panel of monthly observations 1928-1936 for two purposes: first it aims to understand the enormous variation in monetary policy choices across Europe.
Nikolaus Wolf
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Tracing holotype trajectories: Mapping the movement of the most valuable herbarium specimens
Global efforts to protect biodiversity depend on fair access to key plant specimens. This study examines the distribution of 119,361 holotypes—unique herbarium specimens used to formally describe new plant species. By linking collection and storage data, we found that holotypes are increasingly held closer to their places of origin, particularly in ...
Dominik Tomaszewski +2 more
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The experience of suburban modernity: how private transport changed interwar London
The experience of suburban modernity looks at the history of the London suburbs in the interwar years. It shows that, contrary to those accounts that portray suburbia as static and boring, these suburbs were in fact at the heart of the adoption of ...
Law, Michael John
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Mass digitisation of natural science collections and archives has increasingly become a priority for scientific heritage institutions. Here, we explore the potential of mass digitisation to improve our understanding of the nature and history of scientific collaboration. Focusing on mycologist Greta B.
Christopher Kreuzer +2 more
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Marriage Announcements in Lviv during the Interwar Period: Ethnic and Gender Aspects [PDF]
The article dwells upon the marriage announcements in the Lviv periodicals during the interwar period. The author has analyzed men’s and women’s ads and has described the peculiarities of them.
Pidkuimukha, Liudmyla
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Can Europe Sustain a New Rules‐Based Geopolitical Order?
Abstract The European Union (EU) faces a unique opportunity to lead a new rules‐based international order in an era of American retreat and heightened global uncertainty. Yet its path to leadership is rife with obstacles. In this article, we draw on international relations literatures on international political economy and comparative politics ...
Kathleen R. McNamara, Federico Steinberg
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Kaunas interwar architecture buildings peculiarities.
Master's thesis is formulated as an identification of Kaunas interwar architectural peculiarities and a creation of universal interwar building renovation model.
Kisielienė, Gailutė,
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