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Abstract Scholars have largely blamed shipbuilding for maritime expansion for being the main driver of deforestation in early modern Portugal. This article sets out to revisit the origins and reproduction of this narrative by analysing three interconnected elements in a case study of Lisbon's shipyards.
KOLDO TRAPAGA‐MONCHET
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An ethnography of joy: Entrepreneurship among Latinx communities in East Los Angeles
Abstract How do people living at the intersection of various forms of injury seek out collective experiences of joy? I explore this question through fieldwork with Latinx female and queer artists and entrepreneurs, some of them undocumented, who consciously seek out and enact joy in their communities in East Los Angeles.
Yana Stainova
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Abstract This paper explores selective aspects of the historical processes of organization of the kichwa peasantry in the Andes of Ecuador. Based on the analysis of two representative cases of confrontation between peasants and landowners over access to land in the province of Chimborazo, it discusses the relevance of the concept of “gamonalismo” as ...
Víctor Bretón
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Chía and its wild relatives: A superfood Salvia (Lamiaceae)
Alternative crops are a promising approach to address the global food shortage that is exacerbated by climate change and wealth disparities. Some of these alternative crops are traditional food plants that have been widely traded for centuries, whereas others have only recently become more popular.
Sabina I. Lara‐Cabrera+4 more
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La pintura corporal Wajãpi ha sido reconocida como patrimonio inmaterial de Brasil. Dicho reconocimiento tiene como objetivo, de alguna manera, proteger este conocimiento tradicional.
Patricia Pereira Peralta+1 more
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La importación como delito contra la propiedad industrial
This short study is an attempt to carry out an approach to studying imports as a criminal form foreseen in article 273 of the Spanish penal code, that is, importation of products that violates certain rights of industrial property. More clearly, the particularities that present this conduct derived from the special nature of the object over which it ...
Paula Beatriz, Bianchi Pérez
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Abstract This paper examines the relationship between property and citizenship by engaging in a genealogy of one property in Portland, Oregon, “Block 16”, which details how this property was first enacted and then maintained into the 21st century. The paper foregrounds how normative definitions of liberal subjectivity were applied to Indigenous peoples
Stephen Przybylinski
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Condición de Lorentz y ecuaciones de ondas electromagnéticas como propiedades emergentes del sistema de Maxwell [PDF]
This article deals with the study of electromagnetic waves equations and the Lorentz condition, as emergent properties of Maxwell's system in the context of systems theory. To do this, the wave equations and the Helmholtz equation are first deduced. Using the displaced Dirac operator, which is closely related to the main vector calculation operators ...
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The road to integrate climate change projections with regional land‐use–biodiversity models
Abstract Current approaches to project spatial biodiversity responses to climate change mainly focus on the direct effects of climate on species while regarding land use and land cover as constant or prescribed by global land‐use scenarios. However, local land‐use decisions are often affected by climate change and biodiversity on top of socioeconomic ...
Juliano Sarmento Cabral+26 more
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Rhythmos, Diathige, Trope [PDF]
It is argued that properties of Democritus' atoms parallel those of volume forms in differential geometry. This kind of atoms has not "size" of finite magnitude. ----- Se arguye que las propiedades de los atomos de Democrito son paralelas a las de sus formas de volumen en geometria diferencial.
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