Remembering Independence, Debating the Nation: Ghana's National Days
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
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Influence of High-Genetic-Potential Lineages and Sex on Carcass Traits and Pork Quality. [PDF]
Cavalcanti ÉNF +9 more
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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
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Effects of vitamin A restriction on carcass characteristics, antioxidant capacity, meat quality and meat storage period of Yanbian yellow cattle. [PDF]
Zhang X +11 more
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Occasion and audience as poetic constructs in early modern occasional poetry
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
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Multi-Omics Integration Identifies Key Pathways and Regulatory Genes Driving Marbling Formation and Meat Quality in Yunling Cattle. [PDF]
Gao L +5 more
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Now, Again and Again: The Metaphysics of Many Presents
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
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Increasing dietary roughage equivalent from 7 to 12% during the final 28 days on feed does not impact growth performance but may improve ruminal health in feedlot steers. [PDF]
Francis FL +3 more
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GDP and GDI Growth Accounting in the Open Economy: Multiplicative Fisher Decompositions
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
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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
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