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The role of foundations: Rockefeller Foundation. [PDF]
Public Health Rev, 2016 The consequences of climate change and the impacts of human activity on the environment have made it clearer than ever before that we must evolve our current model of public health to better account for the inextricable link between human health and the natural systems on which it depends-creating a "public health 2.0" that builds on the innovations of
Rockefeller D.
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Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña, 2022 Between 1951 and 1962, the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) maintained a scholarship program, the Latin American Scholarships program in agriculture (LAS), which financed the training of 226 Latin American students and researchers who, together, received 297 ...
Flavio M. Heinz +2 more
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Auroral research at the Tromsø Northern Lights Observatory: the Harang directorship, 1928–1946 [PDF]
History of Geo- and Space Sciences, 2016 The Northern Lights Observatory in Tromsø began as Professor Lars Vegard's dream for a permanent facility in northern Norway, dedicated to the continuous study of auroral phenomenology and dynamics.
A. Egeland, W. J. Burke
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Science Patronage, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Mexican Social Sciences in the 1940s
Estudios Sociológicos, 2023 If the public universities of Latin America are considered part of the State, then it would seem likely that they share fundamental features with it.
Álvaro Morcillo Laiz
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The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and Realist Theory in Latin America
Estudios Sociológicos, 2023 This article questions and partially refutes three arguments about the history of international relations (IR) as a discipline. The first argument has been raised in the literature about global IR, which argues that the discipline mirrors the power ...
Álvaro Morcillo Laiz
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Chadbourne Gilpatric and Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Fateful Meeting
Nordic Wittgenstein Review, 2020 On January 11 1951 Chadbourne Gilpatric met with Wittgenstein to offer him, on behalf of the Rockefeller Foundation, funding for any forthcoming publications.
Stephen Leach
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Sociologias, 2009 Nas primeiras décadas do século XX, a Fundação Rockefeller atuou de modo decisivo na implementação de ações voltadas para a saúde pública no Brasil, especialmente naquilo denominado de movimento sanitarista.
Elisabete Kobayashi +2 more
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A New Attempt at Document Exchange Services between the National Library of Peiping and American Academics Conducted Using Microfilm Cameras [PDF]
Journal of Library and Information Studies, 2023 Based on enormous firsthand materials such as archives, diaries and newspapers etc., this article tries to clarify the exchange service between the National Library of Peiping and American academics by Microfilm Camera from 1936 to 1950s.
Qiang Lei
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‘Eradication was a dirty word’: Anti-gambiae campaign, between cooperation and rivalry (1938–1940)
Global Public Health, 2023 This article analyzes the efforts of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (IHDRF) in its project initiative that resulted in the extermination of the African mosquito Anopheles gambiae from Brazil in 1940.
Gabriel Lopes, Marcos Cueto
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La cybernétique « américaine » au sein du structuralisme « français »
Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2012 Through an examination of archival correspondences, institutional records, and published research, this paper reconstructs a convergence of the interests of the Rockefeller Foundation, Roman Jakobson, and Claude Lévi-Strauss around cybernetics during the
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
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