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Is the Green Revolution Vanishing? Empirical Evidence from TFP Analysis for Rice [PDF]
A serious concern has been raised recently on the long run sustainability of the productivity effects of Green Revolution technologies in the light of decelerating trend in the yield growth of rice since the mid 1980s under irrigated ecosystem.
Achoth, Lalith, Adlas, J.
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Persuasive discourse and language planning in Ireland [PDF]
Colonial language discourse typically consists of evaluations concerning the respective merits of two or more languages, and the cultures they represent. This can serve as a warrant for imposing a ‘superior’ language.
Gray G, Mazzon G
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Luminescence investigations at Quendale (Broo Peninsula, Shetland) [PDF]
This report is concerned with optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) investigations of sediment samples collected from ongoing University of Southern Maine archaeological excavations at the Links of Quendale, southern Shetland, investigating the early ...
Kinnaird, Tim C. +2 more
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On the Decline of Pleonastic that in Late Middle English and Early Modern English [PDF]
The origin of pleonastic that can be traced back to Old English where it could appear in syntactic constructions consisting of a preposition + demonstrative pronoun (i.e. for þy þat, for þæm þe) or a subordinator (i.e. oþ þat).
Calle-Martin, Javier
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Water supply of the late medieval and early modern towns in the Polish lands
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Urszula Sowina
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The First World War caused many deaths that had not been foreseen at the beginning of the conflict. Stranded in trenches and losing hope of a short war, the various nations had to establish procedures to deal with their fatalities.
Guy Flucher
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Bridging a biogeographic 'gap' : microfossil evidence for the quillwort Isoetes on the Cumberland Plain west of Sydney during the early Colonial period [PDF]
Fossil spores preserved on historical archaeological sites at Parramatta and Richmond indicate that two or more species of the quillwort genus Isoetes (family Isoetaceae) were growing along rivers on the Cumberland Plain, west of Sydney, during the late ...
Casey, Mary, Macphail, Mike
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Reading Pliny’s Panegyricus within the Context of Late Antiquity and the Early Modern Period
One approach to the reading of Pliny’s Panegyricus is to examine later iterations and discussions of panegyric in Late Antiquity and the Early Modern Period for loci and passages that recall and discuss this earliest extant imperial panegyric. Although a surface reading of imperial panegyric, whether it is in the judicial or political context, is ...
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Istrian Custom of Contracting Marriage in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period
n the Middle and Early Modern Period Istria, today part of Croatia, was divided into the Austrian and Venetian part. In the paper the focus was mostly on the Venetian part, while the Austrian one was only sporadically mentioned. The analysis was based on Marriage Parish Registers of Rovinj and Savicenta, Books of marital litigation, Books of marital ...
Mogorović Crljenko, Marija +1 more
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