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Applications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract Premise Due to their small size and lack of easily visible macroscopic characters, the identification of cryptogam species has always been challenging. Here, the use of a machine learning computer vision method is explored for the identification of species of lichens and bryophytes from Australian biocrusts.
Callum Lawler +3 more
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Géographies du travail esclave au Brésil
Cybergeo, 2011 The article examines slavery in the Brazilian countryside by mapping available data on releases of slave laborers and denunciations of slavery cases. It analyzes the distribution of the phenomenon in Brazil, identifies situations related to slavery, and ...
Hervé Théry +3 more
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Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract Entertainment is deeply rooted in education, from wise‐cracking teachers to health documentaries. In the context of anatomy, this already complex relationship is entwined with deeply significant ethical considerations, often related to the field's reliance on human tissue, yet it remains unexplored.
Lucas D. Wilmshurst +4 more
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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery [PDF]
We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout this period, despite evidence of convergence, the racial gap in attainment between blacks and whites has been persistently determined by ...
Arcangelo Dimico, Graziella Bertocchi
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“Ho paura di essere consegnata in dono!” Aspetti della schiavitù femminile nell’antica Mesopotamia
Storia delle Donne, 2009 Freedom in Ancient Near East was a relative, not an absolute state, as the ambiguity of the term for “slave” in all the region’s languages illustrates.
Maria Vittoria Tonietti
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Critical Romani Studies, 2020 This article examines Ochire istorică asupra sclăviei (A brief historical survey of slavery), a mid-nineteenth-century pioneering study about the history of slavery, to ascertain the growing influence of anti-slavery ideas in the framing of the new ...
Bogdan Chiriac
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Slavery in Rhode Island: Awakening a Forgotten Past (poster) [PDF]
, 2016 This map serves to raise awareness about the history of slavery in Rhode Island. Despite having played an active role in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, Rhode Island’s involvement is often overlooked or omitted from what we are traditionally taught in ...
Adeboye, Abudu +4 more
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, 2019 Over the last decade, the norm of corporate accountability for labour standards in global supply chains has become increasingly prominent within the transnational governance arena.
G. LeBaron, Andreas Rühmkorf
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International supply chains: compliance and engagement with the Modern Slavery Act
Journal of the British Academy, 2019 The UK Modern Slavery Act aims to reduce and eradicate various forms of exploitation and is in this respect in line with the Sustainability Development Goal (SDG) 8.7.
Hinrich Voss +6 more
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, 2020 Abolishing ‘modern slavery’ has now achieved international policy consensus. The most recent UK initiative – the 2015 Modern Slavery Act (MSA) – includes amongst other aspects tougher prison sentencing for perpetrators and the creation of an independent ...
Stuart Hodkinson +3 more
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