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Insights into traditional Pacific warfare ‘rules’
The decade-long civil war in Bougainville, sporadic warfare in the Papua New Guinea Highlands, ethnic conflict in the Solomon Islands, and human rights violations during four coups and deaths in custody in the wake of a military barracks mutiny have ...
David Robie
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The Use of Population Isolates to Identify Metabolic Syndrome's Genetic Aetiology
While exogenous factors that lead to metabolic syndrome are well understood, each person's response to these is modulated by their genetics. Population isolates have the potential for higher‐powered studies of rare variants, and distinct linkage disequilibrium patterns can help map causal variants in loci identified in larger GWAS studies.
Jacob W. I. Meyjes‐Brown +3 more
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This research presents the association of contractual disregard by employer with recalcitrant behavior of employees in public or private universities of Lahore, Pakistan.
Ayesha,Ali
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Widespread museum digitization initiatives have made the world's herbaria more accessible than ever, launching a renaissance of specimen use. We highlight the value of digitization to bolster both scientific and historical research using the specimens from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884) to the Canadian arctic, remembered for its tragedy ...
J. Mason Heberling, Jackson P. Wright
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Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
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In November 1910 about two thousand Brazilian sailors seized the principal warships of the Republic and aimed their guns at the city of Rio de Janeiro. Their greatest claim made a profound impact at the time: the abolition of corporal punishment.
Sílvia Capanema P. de Almeida
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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Disraeli, Gladstone, and the Royal Titles Bill, 1876: Part 1
Abstract The Royal Titles Bill (1876) proved to be contentious because it raised fraught issues of royal prerogative, constitutional legality, political perspective, parliamentary strategy, journalistic practice, and public opinion. Disraeli insisted that Queen Victoria could choose the supplementary title, empress of India, while Gladstone and his ...
Robert O'Kell
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The Relief of Lucknow: Henry Hugh Armstead’s Outram Shield (c. 1858–62)
This article examines, in unprecedented close detail and for the first time, in an imperial studies context, a significant piece of Victorian silver testimonial sculpture.
Jason Edwards
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The Ethics of Authoritarianism in Christian Perspective
ABSTRACT We look here at the characteristics of authoritarian government in the context of constitutional democracies and argue that its operative ethical system in public policy is egoism, with its supporters constituting a collective ego complicit in the undemocratic and Machiavellian practices used to sustain power and the authority of leadership to
James M. Childs
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