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\u3cem\u3eUnited States v. Hodges\u3c/em\u3e: Treason, Jury Trials, and the War of 1812 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In August 1814 a number of British soldiers were arrested as stragglers or deserters in the town of Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Upon learning of the soldiers’ absences the British military took local physician, Dr.
Smith, Jennifer Elisa
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Enemy release: loss of parasites in invasive freshwater bivalves Sinanodonta woodiana and Corbicula fluminea

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Invasive freshwater bivalves harm native species, ecosystems and biodiversity, and incur economic costs. The enemy release hypothesis posits that invasive species are released from enemies during the invasion process, giving them a competitive advantage in the new environment.
Binglin Deng   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Institutionalizing Advisory Bodies in Climate Governance: Between Transparency, Accountability and Efficiency

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The implementation of effective climate governance increasingly relies on advisory bodies that monitor the effectiveness of policies and management mechanisms. Despite their strategic importance to institutionalizing climate governance, limited attention has been paid to the roles, trajectories, and effectiveness of these advisory bodies ...
David Talbot, Luc Bernier
wiley   +1 more source

Suicide: the key role of short range ties

open access: yes, 2005
The paper explores the connection between short-range social ties (i.e. links with close relatives) and the occurrence of suicide. The objective is to discriminate between a model based on social ties and a model based on psychological traumas.
Roehner, Bertrand M.
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Justice for War Criminals: The Trials of Nazi Concentration Camp Guards at Dachau [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper will seek to explore whether or not Nazi war criminals tasked with manning and staffing the various concentration and death camps were in any way entitled to due process of law upon their capture and trial.
Trudeau, Jarrid
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“Passive” Scalecraft as a State Strategy in Post‐Authoritarian Environmental Governance: A Case From South Korea

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study employs a scalar politics framework to unpack how participatory rhetoric operates statecraft in a post‐authoritarian context, thereby illuminating hybrid‐regime behavior along a continuum of environmental governance. An examination of the environmental governance of an ecotourism project in South Korea is performed using ...
Souyeon Nam
wiley   +1 more source

Empathy, Perceived Injustice and Solidarity‐Based Action: Observer Responses to Civilian Suffering in Military Conflicts

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As global conflicts intensify, observers without direct conflict experience are increasingly exposed to war‐related suffering through media coverage, yet little is known about how such exposure shapes emotional and behavioural responses or how support for different affected civilian groups is distributed.
Islam Borinca   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

General Order Number 50: Headquarters, Department of The Gulf, May 2nd, 1865 [PDF]

open access: yes
This General Order provides instructions on the treatment, status, and rights of paroled prisoners of war. By command of Major General Banks via J. Schuyler Crosby, Brevet Lieut. Col. A. D. C. & A. A. A. General. 13 x 19 cm.

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An Experience‐Sampling Study on the Frequency and Diversity of Positive and Negative Affective States

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ecological models explain social phenomena by assuming specific properties of the world an individual lives in. The evaluative information ecology model (Unkelbach et al. 2019) assumes two such properties: Positive information is more frequent (i.e., positivity prevalence), but negative information is more diverse (i.e., negativity diversity).
Anne I. Weitzel, Christian Unkelbach
wiley   +1 more source

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