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Remembering Independence, Debating the Nation: Ghana's National Days

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Ghana, Independence Day is the most important national day and has been annually observed since the attainment of independence in 1957. Additional national days that various military governments introduced to commemorate their ascension to power have been rather short‐lived. Other holidays like Republic Day or Founder's Day have been longer
Carola Lentz
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of High-Genetic-Potential Lineages and Sex on Carcass Traits and Pork Quality. [PDF]

open access: yesAnimals (Basel)
Cavalcanti ÉNF   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Planning for Mistakes

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How should you decide what to do? Orthodox decision theory offers attractively simple advice: Do whatever has the most expected value. In what follows, I argue that this is not always good advice for agents like us. Agents like us are susceptible to error: Sometimes, we do not succeed at doing what is recommended by the advice we are trying to
Sam Carter
wiley   +1 more source

Occasion and audience as poetic constructs in early modern occasional poetry

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Occasional poetry, composed for specific events such as weddings or funerals, was a dominant form of poetry in early modern Europe. Despite its historical prominence, the role of the occasion as a literary and rhetorical construct in occasional poetry has been very little studied.
Eeva‐Liisa Bastman
wiley   +1 more source

Now, Again and Again: The Metaphysics of Many Presents

open access: yesPacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper discusses whether there can be multiple present moments. After presenting some reasons for thinking that the question is worthwhile, I challenge several objections to its possibility: worries about the exclusivity of tense; the nature of change, tense logic and semantics; and the apparent tension between multiple presents and an ...
Nikk Effingham
wiley   +1 more source

GDP and GDI Growth Accounting in the Open Economy: Multiplicative Fisher Decompositions

open access: yesReview of International Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While most national statistical agencies still use chained Laspeyres indices in their national accounts, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and Statistics Canada have been at the forefront for the past two decades by using instead a superlative index—the Fisher index—when computing price and quantity indices for GDP and its components.
Ulrich Kohli
wiley   +1 more source

Early development of anoxia prior to the main euxinic phase of the Jenkyns Event on the margin of the Western Tethys (Sachrang Basin, Eastern Alps)

open access: yesSedimentology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although the global expansion of oxygen‐depleted marine environments during the Early Toarcian Jenkyns Event (or Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event) is primarily inferred from successions in the NW European epicontinental basins, the timing of the expansion of anoxia in Tethyan basins, where hydrography potentially played a minor role, is poorly ...
Tamás Müller   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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