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Half a century of echinoid population decline in the northern Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea
Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.Multi‐decadal monitoring in the Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea, reveals severe (>90%) declines of key echinoid grazers. These declines signify a collapse of crucial herbivory functions underpinning coral reef resilience. Results implicate accelerating anthropogenic stress as a principal driver, emphasizing the urgent need for sustained, species ...
Gal Eviatar, Omri Bronstein
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High sensitive C-reactive protein and ischemic heart disease, a population- based study
Iranian South Medical Journal, 2012 Background: The measurement of high sensitive C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) serum concentration has been suggested as an inflammatory agent in screening of high risk individuals for ischemic heart disease.
Masoomeh Tohidi +5 more
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Experimental investigation on streamlines in a 180º sharp bend
Acta Scientiarum: Technology, 2017 One of the most important concerns of hydraulics engineers is predicting erosion at the outer banks of rivers by studying the flow pattern along the bend. Not only are the streamlines in meanders non parallel curved lines, but they are also twisted.
Mohammad Vaghefi, Maryam Akbari
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Through a comparison of adolescent experience in Manggarai, eastern Indonesia, and amongst children of migrants in Sabah, Malaysia, this article argues for the value of attending to the spatiality of adolescence as a period of transition. Biocultural development expands both adolescents’ concrete experiences of mobility and their sense of the ...
Catherine Allerton
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On the Sovereignty of Nations... and the Kingdom of God
, 1991 Excerpt: Normally, the editor\u27s essay comments upon some aspect of the magazine\u27s central theme, but this issue is an exception. Given the crisis in the Persian Gulf, one cannot responsibly be silent about it.
Anderson, Paul N.
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UA1F Military Bibliography [PDF]
, 2012 Bibliography of source materials regarding military science, soldiers, Persian Gulf War, Pershing Rifles, Scabbard & Blade, veterans, Vietnam and World War II in relation to WKU students, alumni and ...
WKU Archives
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Seasonal sea surface temperature variations in the Persian Gulf as recorded by Nimbus 2 HRIR [PDF]
Seasonal sea surface temperature variations in Persian Gulf recorded by Nimbus 2 ...
Allison, L. J. +2 more
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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