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Currents of Liberty, Seas of Change: Black Sailors as Subversive Agents of Freedom in the Early Republic

, 2007
Years after being kidnapped from his native Ibo village as a young boy, Olaudah Equiano vividly recalled his wonder at seeing a European ship for the first time.
Montgomery, Skye
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The EU as a security actor in Africa [PDF]

, 2015
Instability and conflict in Africa create a range of security problems for Europe. Rapidly increasing migration via the Mediterranean Sea, extremism and terrorism, as well as cross-border crime, all have implications for security in Europe, but are spill-
Hoebeke, Hans, Meijnders, Mincke, Merket, Hans, Zandee, Dick   +3 more
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Airborne Passive Microwave Retrievals of Cloud Liquid Water, Total Precipitable Water, and Near‐Surface Wind Speed in the Maritime Tropics

Earth and Space Science
This paper describes improvements to geophysical retrievals from NASA's Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer (AMPR) during the Cloud, Aerosol and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex).
Corey G. Amiot, Timothy J. Lang, Bastiaan vanDiedenhoven, Susan C. van denHeever, Lawrence D. Carey, Sean W. Freeman, G. Alexander Sokolowsky   +6 more
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Fluid Borders, Concrete Locations: Epicenters of Cross-Cultural Interaction in the Eighteenth Century Borderland of the Great Lakes

, 2013
In a recent article on the advent of borderlands history as a prominent field of historical scholarship, Pekka Hämäläinen and Samuel Truett described borderlands as “realms where boundaries are also crossroads, peripheries are also central places ...
Nelson, John W.
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Observations from the maritime continent : Darwin, Australia

, 1989
A major observational and research program is being undertaken in Darwin, Australia as part of the Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere (TOGA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). Darwin is situated in northern Australia and experiences a monsoon environment typical of the maritime ...
Holland, G.G., Keenan, T.D., Manton, M.J.   +2 more
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Biogeographic survey of soil bacterial communities across Antarctica

Microbiome
Background Antarctica and its unique biodiversity are increasingly at risk from the effects of global climate change and other human influences. A significant recent element underpinning strategies for Antarctic conservation has been the development of a
Gilda Varliero, Pedro H. Lebre, Byron Adams, Steven L. Chown, Peter Convey, Paul G. Dennis, Dandan Fan, Belinda Ferrari, Beat Frey, Ian D. Hogg, David W. Hopkins, Weidong Kong, Thulani Makhalanyane, Gwynneth Matcher, Kevin K. Newsham, Mark I. Stevens, Katherine V. Weigh, Don A. Cowan   +17 more
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Developing a 'soft power' strategy in Africa [PDF]

, 2015
China’s highly touted development strategy, the “Belt and Road” initiative, is based on the land-based Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) and the parallel Maritime Silk Road (MSR).
Goncalves, Marcus
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Regional Agreements and Welfare in the South: When Scale Economies in Transport Matter [PDF]

This paper focuses on two issues that challenge the accepted pessimistic view that regional trade agreements (RTAs) between developing countries in welfare terms by taking into account scale economies in transport.
Céline CARRERE
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Thermodynamic and dynamic responses to deforestation in the Maritime Continent: A modeling study Thermodynamic and dynamic responses to deforestation in the Maritime Continent: A modeling study

, 2019
Tropical deforestation can result in substantial changes in local surface energy and water budgets, and thus in atmospheric stability. These effects may in turn yield changes in precipitation. The Maritime Continent (MC) has undergone severe deforestation during the past few decades but it has received less attention than the deforestation in the ...
Chen, Chu-Chun, Lo, Min-Hui, Im, Eun-Soon, Yu, Jin-Yi, Liang, Yu-Chiao, Chen, Wei-Ting, Tang, Iping, Lan, Chia-Wei, Wu, Ren-Jie, Chien, Rong-You   +9 more
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Long‐Term Observations Reveal Non‐Negligible Temperature Contributions to Moist Static Energy During the MJO Transition From Suppressed to Active Phases

Geophysical Research Letters
The evolution of moist static energy (MSE) is widely used to understand the organization and propagation of the Madden‐Julian Oscillation (MJO). Past studies, largely based on reanalysis or short‐term observations, have highlighted humidity as the ...
Nirmal Alex, Pallav Ray, Mike Splitt, Steven Lazarus, Samson Hagos   +4 more
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