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US-Mexico Relations in an Age of Uncertainty
Latin American Research Review, 2018 This essay reviews the following works: A Tale of Two Eagles: The US-Mexico Bilateral Defense Relationship Post Cold War. By Craig A. Deare. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017. Pp. vii + 436. $45.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781442269446.
David A. Shirk
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Can exit prizes induce lame ducks to shirk less? Experimental evidence
European Journal of Government and Economics, 2012 Elected representatives serving their final period face only weak incentives to provide costly effort. However, overlapping generations (OLG) models suggest that exit prizes sustained by trigger strategies can induce representatives in their final period
Leif Helland, Jon Hovi, Lars Monkerud
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic generated concerns about rising stress and alcohol use, especially in U.S. veterans who experience high rates of anxiety disorders (ADs), alcohol use disorder (AUD), and dual AD+AUD diagnoses.
Brooke A. Duarte +8 more
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Deviant Citizenship: DREAMer Activism in the United States and Transnational Belonging
Social Sciences, 2015 My analysis places the assertions of political presence by non-citizen immigrant youth in the U.S. (often referred to as DREAMers) within a rapidly globalizing world; this placement re-frames the DREAMers’ movement from a fight for U.S.
Joaquina Weber-Shirk
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The Concept of Ruqyah in Islam and Exorcism in Catholicism
Journal of Comparative Study of Religions, 2020 Ruqyah is commonly understood merely as an Islamic ritual used to expel demons or jinn that disturb the body of Muslims similar to Exorcism in Catholicism.
Syamsul Hadi Untung, Abdul Muiz
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Anterior Urethral Laceration from a Human Bite
Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 2017 Isolated anterior urethral injuries in males related to sexual activity have rarely been reported. Human bites to the penis are also rarely discussed in the medical literature.
Chadwick Shirk, Wesley Eilbert
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African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2020 Objectives: Three decades ago, in North America, pediatric emergency medicine was an evolving subspecialty of pediatrics, contributing in valuable and life-saving ways to the care of children.
Alison Gardner +2 more
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BMC Gastroenterology, 2005 Background Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is a highly invasive neoplasm. Epidermal growth factor (EGF) and its receptor are over expressed in pancreatic cancer, and expression correlates with invasion and metastasis.
Kuver Rahul, Shirk Andrew J
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The invisible prevalence of citizen science in global research: migratory birds and climate change. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Citizen science is a research practice that relies on public contributions of data. The strong recognition of its educational value combined with the need for novel methods to handle subsequent large and complex data sets raises the question: Is citizen ...
Caren B Cooper +2 more
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Pendekatan Semiotika Dalam Studi Islam (Telaah Makna Semiosis Syirik)
Jurnal Indo-Islamika, 2020 This paper will discuss the meaning of the word semiosis syirik in the hadith. This paper is a qualitative study using the Umberto Eco semiotic approach. Umberto Eco is a philosopher, essayist, semiotic expert, critic of literary works, and novelist. His
Hafis Khoerul Mahfudz
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