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Phylogeography and population genetic structure of the European roe deer in Switzerland following recent recolonization. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2022 After 19th century extirpation, the European roe deer naturally recolonized Switzerland. Using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA markers, we demonstrate that Swiss roe deer had natural, multidirectional immigration from neighboring countries and that there is evidence of weak genetic differentiation within Switzerland among topographic regions. Abstract In
Vasiljevic N +9 more
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The Moral Force of Guidelines: How Surgeons Use Evidence-Based Medicine to Curb Their Interventionism. [PDF]
Sociol Health IllnABSTRACT The epistemology of evidence‐based medicine (EBM) is said to clash with the culture of surgery: EBM demands contemplation, whereas surgeons prize decisive, and even heroic, action. How, then, have surgeons come to embrace EBM? To answer this question, I analysed evidence‐based clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) and interviewed 15 attending ...
Davis C.
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Is there a risk of yellow fever virus transmission in South Asian countries with hyperendemic dengue? [PDF]
Biomed Res Int, 2013 The fact that yellow fever (YF) has never occurred in Asia remains an “unsolved mystery” in global health. Most countries in Asia with high Aedes aegypti mosquito density are considered “receptive” for YF transmission. Recently, health officials in Sri Lanka issued a public health alert on the potential spread of YF from a migrant group from West ...
Agampodi SB, Wickramage K.
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Staging Grounds: Loutherbourg and Warley
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 778-810, September 2023., 2023 In 1778, Philippe‐Jacques de Loutherbourg began work on a pair of companion pictures marking George III's attendance at a spectacular military review on the broad expanse of Essex wasteland that was Warley Common. Scholars of the painter's art have largely overlooked these ambitious, large‐scale landscapes, but their commission and subsequent display ...
John Bonehill
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Political animals in the Modern World: An Investigation of the National Animal Symbol
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 23, Issue 2, Page 195-215, September 2023., 2023 Abstract National symbols play a significant role in contemporary politics by shaping national identities. However, national animals receive little attention in the scholarship. This paper analysed the national animal’s history, strengths, formation and implications as a political symbol.
Jintao Zhu, Gregor Ilsinger
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Subverting geopolitics: The reinvention of geography in post‐revolutionary Mexico
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 439-450, June 2023., 2023 Short Abstract This paper contributes to the effort to ‘decentralise’ geopolitics by bringing into light, historically, a geopolitical operation that took the form of a proper geographical invention. Specifically, the paper analyses the work of the Mexican intellectual José Vasconcelos – who acted as Secretary of Public Education in the aftermath of ...
Simone Vegliò
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Prussian Blue: Chemistry, Commerce, and Colour in Eighteenth‐Century Paris
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 154-186, February 2023., 2023 This essay reconsiders the story of a pigment. Prussian blue, discovered at the beginning of the eighteenth century, is often described as a revolutionary colour that instantly transformed painters’ palettes and practices. Grounded in a ‘thick description’ of the pigment's history in Paris, this article challenges the legendary account of Prussian blue
Charlotte Guichard +2 more
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Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 171-181, July 2022., 2022 Abstract Sinking island States have become allegories of the Anthropocene and a symbol of the radical violence of climate change. Various theories have been advanced supporting the continued existence of sunken islands as deterritorialized States. A common view among advocates of the deterritorialized statehood thesis is that, while at odds with the ...
Emma Allen, Mario Prost
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From Conciliation to Threat: Silva Lisboa, Viscount of Cairu, and the Luso‐Brazilian Empire in 1821
Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 227-240, April 2022., 2022 In the year before Brazil's independence, the press played an essential role in influencing the events that resulted in the rupture with Portugal. With his ideas shaped by the Portuguese Enlightenment and economic liberalism, Silva Lisboa initially supported the Cortes of Lisbon and the Luso‐Brazilian empire, but, when the Congress decided to legislate
Guilherme Celestino
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A century of Public Administration: Traveling through time and topics
Public Administration, Volume 100, Issue 1, Page 17-40, March 2022., 2022 Abstract Public Administration (PA) has been a unique witness and protagonist of scholarship in the field of public administration over the course of an entire century. On the occasion of the journal's 100th anniversary, we conduct a systematic analysis of the publication history using bibliometric methods enhanced by natural language processing.
Rick Vogel, Fabian Hattke
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