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Harnessing social media data to track species range shifts

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Biodiversity monitoring programs and citizen science data remain heavily biased toward the Global North. Especially in megadiverse countries with limited biodiversity records, incorporating social media data can help address existing data gaps.
Shawan Chowdhury, Niloy Hawladar, Ripon C. Roy, César Capinha, Phillip Cassey, Ricardo A. Correia, Gideon Gywa Deme, Moreno Di Marco, Enrico Di Minin, Ivan Jarić, Richard J. Ladle, Jonathan Lenoir, Mohammad Momeny, Jooel J. Rinne, Uri Roll, Aletta Bonn   +15 more
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The Social Assimilation of Immigrants [PDF]

Policy makers in migrant-receving countries must often strike a delicate balance between economic needs, that would dictate a substantial increase in the number of foreign workers, and political and electoral imperatives, that typically result in highly ...
Alessandra Venturini, Domenico de Palo, Riccardo Faini   +2 more
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Hugo Pratt’s and Milo Manara’s Indian Summer: An Italian “Source” for The Scarlet Letter [PDF]

, 2017
This paper examines the allusions of Milo Manara’s and Hugo Pratt’s graphic novel, Tutto ricominciò con un’estate indiana (Indian Summer), to Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlett Letter in a variety of ways.
Mariani, Giorgio
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Age‐specific melanoma risk associated with nevi: a pooled analysis from the M‐SKIP project

JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.
Summary Objective This study investigates the association of melanoma risk with total‐body nevus count and the presence of atypical nevi in younger (< 40 years) and older (> 60 years) individuals. Methods A pooled analysis was conducted within the M‐SKIP project, based on multiple melanoma case‐control studies.
Giulia Doi, Aurora Gaeta, Simone Ribero, Nelleke Gruis, Julia Newton‐Bishop, David Polsky, DeAnn Lazovich, Paola Ghiorzo, Gloria Ribas, Chiara Menin, Alexander J. Stratigos, Gabriella Guida, Susana Puig, Maria Concetta Fargnoli, Peter A. Kanetsky, Paola Queirolo, Vincenzo Bagnardi, Veronique Bataille, Sara Raimondi, Sara Gandini, M‐SKIP study group   +20 more
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Infrastructure expansion, tourism and electoral outcomes

Economica, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the electoral impact of economic growth through increased foreign tourism using data from Croatia. To identify causal effects, the paper applies an instrumental variable strategy, which uses variation in the ruggedness of the local terrain to estimate the network of least‐cost paths.
Adrian Mehic
wiley   +1 more source

Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine the colonial origins and evolution of gender inequality in mission schooling and formal labour force participation across six cities in British colonial Africa, using marriage register data for some 30,000 Anglican brides and grooms well‐positioned to benefit from colonial educational and employment opportunities.
Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf
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Declining female participation: Mechanisms at play in the Viennese private annuity market, c. 1360–1450

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract During the high and late Middle Ages, the European economy witnessed the emergence and substantial growth of capital markets, a phenomenon connected to urbanization and pestilence, both of which brought profound changes to the social, legal, and economic positions of women.
Anna Molnár
wiley   +1 more source

The educational attainment, labour market participation and living conditions of young Roma in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania [PDF]

This paper investigates the educational attainment, labour market participation and living conditions of young Roma adults in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania based on data from the generations and gender surveys and other sources of information.
Claudia Trentini, Jaromir Cekota
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Beyond Brunhild: reassessing women in the Fredegar Chronicle

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Scholarly consideration of women in the seventh‐century Fredegar chronicle has long been dominated by the author’s hostility towards Brunhild, queen of Austrasia. Statistical analysis of Latin world chronicles before ad 900, however, shows that Fredegar’s representation of women was unusually high within this tradition.
Emily Quigley
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the leaky pipeline: Tokenism, status group effects, or self‐selection?

European Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract In most European universities today, more than 50% of bachelor's degrees are awarded to women, but the corresponding share of full professorships is only about 25%. This phenomenon is called the leaky pipeline. Most explanations refer to gender biases and stereotypes, motherhood, discrimination, and tokenism.
Margit Osterloh, Katja Rost
wiley   +1 more source