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\u3ci\u3eBreard\u3c/i\u3e and the Federal Power to Require Compliance with ICJ Orders of Provisional Measures [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Among the puzzling aspects of the Breard episode was the Clinton administration\u27s claim that the decision whether or not to comply with the Order of the International Court of Justice requiring the postponement of Breard\u27s execution lay exclusively
Vázquez, Carlos Manuel
core   +1 more source

Geometric Morphometrics Reveal Body Shape Variation in Freshwater Shrimps of the Genus Macrobrachium Lacking a Mandibular Palp (Formerly Pseudopalaemon Sollaud, 1911) (Decapoda: Palaemonidae)

open access: yesActa Zoologica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Shape variation in the cephalothorax of Macrobrachium species without mandibular palp using geometric morphometrics was used as a tool to support species differentiation and propose new diagnostic characters for taxonomic identification.
Thaís Arrais Mota   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dual Use Research of Concern—The Necessity of Global Bioethics Engagement

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Dual use research of concern (DURC) refers to research conducted for legitimate scientific purposes that could also be misused to pose a significant threat to public health and safety, agricultural crops and other plants, animals, the environment, or national security.
Daniel J. Hurst, Christopher A. Bobier
wiley   +1 more source

A 10,000 Mississippi Kite flock observed in Fuerte Esperanza, Argentina [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The Mississippi Kite (Ictinia mississippiensis) is a Neotropical migrant that nests singly or in loose, small colonies in North America from North Carolina and north Florida west to Kansas, southeastern Colorado, and Texas and north along Mississippi ...
Areta, Juan Ignacio, Seipke, Sergio H.
core   +1 more source

Interrupted Terms, Frustrated Careers? The Political Continuity of Cabinet Ministers Affected by Presidential Interruptions

open access: yesBulletin of Latin American Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the political fates of Latin American cabinet ministers who served in a government interrupted by crisis. Although the fall of a sitting president means the end of a particular cabinet, the political careers of its members need not perish. Through a classification of career models and C‐means cluster analysis, this study
Mélany Barragán Manjón   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

EFFICIENCY OF SMALL LANDHOLDERS IN EASTERN PARAGUAY [PDF]

open access: yes
The relative efficiency levels of 283 rural households from three regions in eastern Paraguay are measured using a nonparametric approach. Technical, allocative, and scale efficiency measures are calculated both at national and regional levels, and ...
Fletschner, Diana K., Zepeda, Lydia
core   +1 more source

Emergence, spread, and impact of high‐pathogenicity avian influenza H5 in wild birds and mammals of South America and Antarctica

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract The currently circulating high‐pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) virus of the subtype H5 causes variable illness and death in wild and domestic birds and mammals, as well as in humans. This virus evolved from the Goose/Guangdong lineage of the HPAI H5 virus, which emerged in commercial poultry in China in 1996, spilled over into wild birds,
Thijs Kuiken   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Taxonomic revision of the Rineloricaria species (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Paraguay River basin

open access: yesNeotropical Ichthyology
Species of the genus Rineloricaria from the Paraguay River basin were revised, the following species and geographic distributional patterns were found: R. aurata, Paraguay River basin in Brazil and Paraguay, rio Guaporé in Brazil; R. cacerensis, Paraguay
Héctor S. Vera-Alcaraz   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Everyday Politics of Global China: Looking to, Reflecting on, and Enacting Authority in Rural Tajikistan

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The visible manifestations of Global China, and the responses these manifestations elicit, are at the centre of much of the scholarly literature on, and popular interest in, China's growing global presence. What is less often considered is what China's role in foreign jurisdictions implies for state–society relations in those countries.
Irna Hofman
wiley   +1 more source

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