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Key agroecosystems for the conservation of amphibians and reptiles in Europe
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Agricultural expansion and intensification are driving amphibian and reptile declines worldwide. However, sustainably managed agroecosystems can support a high diversity of herpetofauna, which play a key role in pest control, reducing crop damage.
Andrea Dalpasso +4 more
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The circulation and distribution of classical Greek coinage
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract From a sample of the most prominent Greek city‐states, data involving a total of 999 hoards and 160,007 coins from 550 to 300 BC were collected to discern the relative magnitudes, consistency of issue, and distribution of Classical Greek coinages.
Zane Mullins
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract In recent years economic inequality has become a major research topic in economic history. However, much remains to be done to complete our knowledge of long‐term distributive dynamics. This article highlights several promising avenues for future research, focusing on the preindustrial period.
Guido Alfani
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The bread of Toledo: Prices and political economy, 1535–1800
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We study the market for common white bread in the city of Toledo through a new 266‐year‐long series of bread prices, obtained from the cash purchases and wholesale bread‐for‐wheat contracts of large institutions. Our data are strongly consistent with fragmentary evidence on retail price regulation, as well as with shorter series from other ...
Mauricio Drelichman +1 more
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Accountability That Keeps on Giving: Open Issues in the Delivery of Public Services
Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Reviewing and discussing current “hot” issues in the public accountability of public services from the different perspectives of central and local government, healthcare, universities, and third‐sector organizations, this piece aims at open a debate on how to improve both research and practice in these realms.
Richard Baylis +9 more
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Commerce and coexistence: Muslims in the economy and society of Norman Sicily. [PDF]
, 2009 University of Minnesota Ph.D. disseration. September 2009. Major: History. Advisor: Kathryn Reyerson. 1 computer file (PDF); v, 231 pages, appendix pages 228-231.Sicily in the eleventh and twelfth centuries had a Muslim population under the control of ...
Smit, Timothy James
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Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.Through whole‐genome sequencing of P. machaon populations across Europe, we demonstrate that P. m. britannicus forms a genetically distinct and isolated lineage. Demographic modelling revealed weak historical gene flow from the continent. Although P. m.
Benoit Nabholz +6 more
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Money in Sicily and Southern Italy [PDF]
The history of money in Renaissance Sicily and Southern Italy unfolded between two different but interconnected monetary areas: the Kingdom of Naples, which included what is now southern Italy with the exclusion of the island of Sicily, and the Kingdom ...
Stefano Locatelli
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Journal of Applied Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Witnessing racial discrimination can be a powerful moral encounter, yet little is known about how minority group members respond when the targets are other minorities, such as Black people. Across three studies, we examined when witnessing discrimination predicts intra‐minority allyship with Black people. In Study 1a (N = 155 Ukrainians in the
Maria Chayinska +4 more
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Angevin synoecisms in the border region of the Kingdom of Sicily in the 13th and 14th centuries [PDF]
, 2018 After the conquest of the Kingdom of Sicily by Charles I of Anjou, the Angevin king and his successors ordered or authorized the construction or reconstruction of many towns in the northern border region of the Kingdom. The most ancient ones, right after
Andrea Casalboni
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