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Changes in Atlantic major hurricane frequency since the late-19th century. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2021 Atlantic hurricanes are a major hazard to life and property, and a topic of intense scientific interest. Historical changes in observing practices limit the utility of century-scale records of Atlantic major hurricane frequency.
Vecchi GA +5 more
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Causes of irregularities in trends of global mean surface temperature since the late 19th century. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2018 Our analyses provide empirical explanations for slowdowns and irregularities in global surface temperature variation, 1891–2015. The time series of monthly global mean surface temperature (GST) since 1891 is successfully reconstructed from known natural ...
Folland CK +3 more
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Mechanical Properties of Bridge Steel from the Late 19th Century
Applied Sciences, 2021 This article presents the results of testing of the strength of structural steel taken from a railway bridge. It was built within the borders of today’s Poland during the late 19th century and was in use for over 100 years, until the early 21st century ...
Paweł Grzegorz Kossakowski
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Human influence on climate detectable in the late 19th century. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AThe physics of the heat-trapping properties of CO 2 were established in the mid-19th century, as fossil fuel burning ...
Santer BD +4 more
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Brexit, Trump and trade: Back to a late 19th century future?
Competition and Change, 2020 There are striking similarities between today’s early 21st century trade political economy and its late 19th century equivalent. Ascendant populist nationalism, escalating trade protectionism and tariff wars, growing discontent over globalization’s ...
Christopher M. Dent
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HMS Mars: an industrial school in the late 19th century
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2021 This short reflection on the history of industrial schooling and residential care in Scotland focuses on the ship HMS Mars. Moored close to the city of Dundee, the ship was 'home' to thousands of poor, destitute and homeless boys in the late nineteenth ...
Christine Whyte
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The lost origin of chemical ecology in the late 19th century [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008 The origin of plant chemical ecology generally dates to the late 1950s, when evolutionary entomologists recognized the essential role of plant secondary metabolites in plant–insect interactions and suggested that plant chemical diversity evolved under the selection pressure of herbivory.
T. Hartmann
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The study of geomagnetism in the late 19th century
Eos, 1988 Geomagnetic research in the late 19th century differed greatly from such research today. Geomagnetic observations were glaringly incomplete. The basic processes of geomagnetism were still far from being understood. Yet it was a time of much interest and some accomplishment in geomagnetic investigation.
Gregory A Good
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Large numbers of vertebrates began rapid population decline in the late 19th century. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2016 Li H +9 more
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The ‘discovery’ of anorexia nervosa: Discourses of the late 19th Century [PDF]
Text and Talk, 1990 'Anorexia nervosa' appeared in the medical literature of the late nineteenth Century as a term used to describe self-starvation in young women of the upper and middle classes in Western societies. This paper presents a discourse analysis of texts by the two physicians usually associated with the 'discovery' of anorexia: W.W. Gull and E.C. Laseque.
Julie Hepworth
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