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Journal of Lusophone Studies, 2019 Assembling the Tropics studies the creation of the idea of the "tropics" as a coherent global region in early modern Portuguese empire, using writings on fever, medicine, natural history, plants and drugs, and disease as the basis of analysis.
Josiah Blackmore
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Women remain significantly underrepresented in political leadership worldwide. This study examines how different combinations of government accountability mechanisms enhance women's political representation (WPR) as a pathway to leadership in 30 OECD countries.
Samira Nazar, Seyed Ashkan Zarghami
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Acervo, 2011 As the Brazilian citizenship was defined during the First Empire, the arrival and settlement of the "Potuguese" started to be submitted to inspection and control.
Gladys Sabina Ribeiro
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AlmanackResumo O artigo pretende traçar a dicionarização e usos do termo "civilização" e correlatos, identificando sinônimos e antônimos que constituíram os seus diversos significados na língua portuguesa.
Luís Filipe Silvério Lima
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Prenatal Diagnosis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To develop and evaluate an animation for parents about prenatal sequencing. Methods A total of 428 participants who had been pregnant, or whose partner had been pregnant, in the past 24 months. Parents, patient organisation representatives and clinicians co‐designed the animation describing prenatal sequencing (pS). Participants were
Morgan Daniel +12 more
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Ler História, 2008 Roughly between 1750 and 1850, the concept of history experienced, in Portuguese America and in Brazil, a dynamic indicator of changes whose magnitude and depth can only be duly assessed considering the entire period.
João Paulo G. Pimenta +1 more
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Narrating São Tomé: Cape Verdean memories of contract labour in the Portuguese empire
, 2016 In Cape Verdean collective memory, the channelling by Portuguese colonial authorities of contract labourers to Sao Tome is associated with slavery and suffering.
L. Åkesson
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, 2016 Even the most ordinary, everyday words can have an interesting story to tell. कमरा is one of the first Hindi nouns a learner encounters, and many course-books use it to introduce the ‘oblique case with postposition’ construction: कम% & 'या ) ?Asian ...
Snell, Rupert
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Tracing holotype trajectories: Mapping the movement of the most valuable herbarium specimens
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Global efforts to protect biodiversity depend on fair access to key plant specimens. This study examines the distribution of 119,361 holotypes—unique herbarium specimens used to formally describe new plant species. By linking collection and storage data, we found that holotypes are increasingly held closer to their places of origin, particularly in ...
Dominik Tomaszewski +2 more
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The Cinderella tree, Quillaja saponaria – A soap story
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Our current understanding of plants has been shaped by the entwining of different cultures. The Chilean soapbark tree, traditionally valued as a source of natural soap, was shown by serendipitous research in France in the 1900s to produce compounds that can boost the immune response to vaccines.
Anne Osbourn
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