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The Handling of Prisoners of War [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Non-fiction by Hans ...
Steilberger, Hans
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Subterranean environments contribute to three‐quarters of classified ecosystem services

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Beneath the Earth's surface lies a network of interconnected caves, voids, and systems of fissures forming in rocks of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic origin. Although largely inaccessible to humans, this hidden realm supports and regulates services critical to ecological health and human well‐being.
Stefano Mammola   +30 more
wiley   +1 more source

Italian Expeditionary Forces in Siberia and Military Mission under Supreme Ruler of Russia Admiral A.V. Kolchak in 1918-1919

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Russian History
The author considers the fate of Italian prisoners of the First World War in Russia during the Civil War, as well as the participation of Italian prisoners of war and troops of the Expeditionary Corps of the Italian Army in the foreign military ...
Ruslan G. Gagkuev
doaj   +1 more source

Marching in Step: USCT Veterans and the Grand Army of the Republic

open access: yes, 2017
For many United States Colored Troops, remembering the Civil War and their comrades who fell in it became an important part of their post-war life. One of the primary opportunities for public expression of remembrance was Decoration Day, now known as ...
Bilger, Ryan
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World war 2, missing men, and out-of-wedlock childbearing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Based on county-level census data for the German state of Bavaria in 1939 and 1946, we use World War II as a natural experiment to study the effects of sex ratio changes on out-of-wedlock fertility. Our findings show that war-induced shortfalls of men to
Bethmann, Dirk, Kvasnicka, Michael
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Diet of bird‐like troodontid dinosaurs: synthesis of a contentious clade

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Troodontidae is a clade of small‐to medium‐sized maniraptoran theropods that mainly lived in Laurasia (modern Asia, North America and Europe) during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are believed to have had a variety of diets. The uniqueness of troodontid teeth suggests that they diverged from the typical flesh‐based diet of non‐avian ...
Yui Chi Fan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Individualised niches: an integrative conceptual framework across behaviour, ecology, and evolution

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Individuals differ. While seemingly trivial, this insight has nevertheless led to paradigm shifts, as three key fields of organismal biology have seen marked changes in key concepts over the past few decades. In animal behaviour, it has become increasingly recognised that behavioural differences among individuals can be stable over time and ...
Oliver Krüger   +27 more
wiley   +1 more source

Islam and the Ethics of War: Deconstructing Jihad through the Principle of Humanism in Theological Discourses

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology
Warfare has become a problematic discourse in social life and theology. The research aims to identify the malfunction of war through the ethics of jihad contained in Islamic teachings that emphasise the principle of humanism.
Muhammad Rusdi   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Jones, Drucilla Montgomery (Stovall), 1907-2007 (MSS 493) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 493. Correspondence, chiefly from the Fort and Flowers families of Logan County, Kentucky, which includes prisoners of war correspondence from the Civil War.
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &
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