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Each Man\u27s Soul [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The Thought She sat on a big chair with her head thrown back on its cold, shiny leather paneling, her feet pulled up under her. A small arc of yellow light from the bridge lamp shut her off from the darkness of the room, and she turned her head as if to ...
Kessler, Mary Alice
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Bone Anvils and New Types of Osseous Tools at Walīla (Volubilis, Morocco): Use of Animal Byproducts in the Industries of a Medieval Town

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bone anvils used to sharpen metal sickle blades are frequently documented in the archaeological record of the Roman and medieval Mediterranean and beyond, with new finds reported each year. This article reports anvils from the early medieval town of Walīla (Roman Volubilis) in northern Morocco and presents two other types of bone tools (bone ...
Lisa Yeomans   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Benthic megafauna and the functioning of macroalgal forests and urchin barrens

open access: yesOikos, EarlyView.
Two temperate rocky reef food‐web models, representing the trophic diversity of the Mediterranean rocky reef communities, were built for the two stable states: macroalgal forests and barren grounds, which are characterized by opposite amounts of erect macroalgal biomass.
Chiara Bonaviri   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

MaSiF: Machine learning guided auto-tuning of parallel skeletons [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Cole, Murray   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Studies on the Wood-Based Furniture, Leather Products and Footwear Manufacturing Industries in the Philippines [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper aims to develop both the micro and macro data on the entire range of socioeconomic, managerial and technical issues faced by the wood-based furniture, footwear and leather tanning industry.
Aragon, Bienvenido   +3 more
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Plant and insect functional traits influence herbivore performance under climate change

open access: yesOikos, EarlyView.
Climate change is expected to disrupt many trophic interactions, including those between insect herbivores and their host plants, which could have detrimental effects at the ecosystem level. However, the response of insect herbivory to climate change can vary widely across species, and an understanding of the mechanisms underlying this variation is ...
Jessica M. Guezen, Madhur Anand
wiley   +1 more source

Shoe-leather costs of inflation and policy credibility [PDF]

open access: yes
Inflation can cause costly misallocations of resources as consumers seek to protect the purchasing power of their nominal assets. In this article, Michael R.
Michael R. Pakko
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Curing an Underperformer? Leather and Leather Products

open access: yes, 2015
Abstract Chapter 6 focuses on the same issues as the previous two chapters, but in relation to leather and leather goods, where performance has been very different from that of floriculture and cement. Why has a country with the largest livestock population in Africa and with a century of manufacturing experience in the sector behind it ...
openaire   +1 more source

One questionnaire—Two points in time: Has plant species knowledge of laypeople changed over a period of 20 years?

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Concern has been raised that in recent decades knowledge of plant species has severely declined in western countries. However, in the absence of regularly repeated and standardized surveys, no reliable statement can be made as to whether plant species knowledge has actually declined in recent decades.
Petra Lindemann‐Matthies   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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