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An Interview About a Life Threatening Illness [PDF]

, 2009
E bi describes his experience of a life threatening illness.The fifty one audio and nine video files in this collection include: villages’ life stories, circle-dancing songs and performance, local history, folk tales, and interviews from Siyuewu ...
G.yu lha
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Phyllonorycter messaniella (Zeller, 1846), new record for the Maltese Islands (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) [PDF]

, 2008
Phyllonorycter messaniella is recorded for the first time from the Maltese Islands.
Mifsud, David, Sammut, Paul
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Human Life History Strategies

Evolutionary Psychology, 2017
Human life history (LH) strategies are theoretically regulated by developmental exposure to environmental cues that ancestrally predicted LH-relevant world states (e.g., risk of morbidity–mortality).
Kristine J. Chua, Aaron W. Lukaszewski, DeMond M. Grant, Oliver Sng   +3 more
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Human harvest, climate change and their synergistic effects drove the Chinese Crested Tern to the brink of extinction

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2015
Synergistic effect refers to simultaneous actions of separate factors which have a greater total effect than the sum of the individual factor effects. However, there has been a limited knowledge on how synergistic effects occur and individual roles of ...
Shuihua Chen, Zhongyong Fan, Daniel D. Roby, Yiwei Lu, Cangsong Chen, Qin Huang, Lijing Cheng, Jiang Zhu   +7 more
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Village History 1 [PDF]

, 2010
Zhangs skyong tells village history concerning a demon which almost destroyed the village.The fifty one audio and nine video files in this collection include: villages’ life stories, circle-dancing songs and performance, local history, folk tales, and ...
G.yu lha
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Two new species of Pelagodes Holloway, 1996 from Eastern New Guinea (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Geometrinae, Thalassodini)

SHILAP
Two new species of the Indo-Australian genus Pelagodes Holloway, 1996 are described as new. Pelagodes sebastiani Lindt, Lennuk & Viidalepp, sp. nov. resembles Pelagodes rana Holloway, 1996 in the shape of its frog-leglike appendages on the male eighth ...
Aare Lindt, Lennart Lennuk, Jaan Viidalepp   +2 more
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Local biodiversity is higher inside than outside terrestrial protected areas worldwide

Nature Communications, 2016
Protected areas are thought essential for biodiversity conservation, but few studies confirm that protection benefits species. Here, Gray and Hill et al. analyse a global, taxonomically broad database to show that local species richness and abundance are
Claudia L. Gray, Samantha L. L. Hill, Tim Newbold, Lawrence N. Hudson, Luca Börger, Sara Contu, Andrew J. Hoskins, Simon Ferrier, Andy Purvis, Jörn P. W. Scharlemann   +9 more
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Anchonini in Africa: New Species and Genus Confirming a Transatlantic Distribution (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae)

Diversity, 2018
The Anchonini known from Africa are reviewed. The monotypic genus Aethiopacorep is redescribed. The new West African genus Titilayo gen. nov. is described, with seven new species: four from São Tomé, T. perrinae sp. nov., T. saotomense sp.
Joana P. Cristóvão, Christopher H. C. Lyal   +1 more
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From Life Histories to Social History

, 2020
Relying on more than 300 interviews conducted in Mwinilunga District, north-west Zambia, this chapter asks to what extent life histories can contribute to the writing of social history. How do individual stories fit into, challenge, or alter dominant theories of social change?
openaire   +1 more source

Revisiting Akenfield: forty years of an iconic text [PDF]

, 2009
Ronald Blythe’s Akenfield, now forty years old, is generally acknowledged as one of the most influential books in the field of oral history. First published in 1969, Akenfield is a classic which still has the power to move the reader with its ...
Abrams, L.
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