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Sloth: America\u27s Ironic Structural Vice [PDF]
, 2017 Individualism is a popular cultural trope in the United States, often touted for its promotion of industriousness and rejection of laziness. This essay argues that, ironically, America\u27s brand of individualism actually promotes a more fundamental form
Jones, Christopher D., Kelly, Conor M.
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Business cycle synchronization and regional integration: a case study for Central America [PDF]
In early January 2003, the United States and Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua launched official negotiations for the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), a treaty that would expand NAFTA-style trade barrier reductions
Fiess, Norbert
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Exchange Rates and the Competitiveness of the US Timber Sector in a Global Economy [PDF]
This paper examines the competitiveness of the US timber industry under different exchange rate policies using a dynamic optimization model of global timber markets.
Daigneault, Adam J. +2 more
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A Biogeographic History of the Plains Bison Focusing on Population and Range Dynamics [PDF]
, 2015 Early bison originated in Asia and migrated to North America by means of the Bering Land Bridge, which opened around 600,000 years ago. Just after the Wisconsin glaciation (11, 700 years ago), there were two allopatric species of bison residing in North ...
Roman, Grace
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Sustaining Autonomous Communities in the Modern United States (The United Communities of America) [PDF]
, 2017 America has become industrialized and characterized by social anxiety and overconsumption. The inability to be sustainable has led the once plentiful and flourishing nation into an ongoing sustainability crisis. Even if there is a deep connection between
Hester, Lucas
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Environmental Research Letters, 2019 The American West exists in the popular imagination as a distinct region, and policies and politics often suggest that both the challenges and the opportunities for land management and human well-being across the region are relatively homogeneous.
Kristal Jones +11 more
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Triumph of an Idea_Japanese Internment and the Survival of Democracy [PDF]
, 2018 The principles found in the Declaration of Independence have been what has united the disparate cultures and ethnicities that make up the United States of America.
Morgan, L. Claire, 2867982
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Will thinning and fuel reduction treatments help dry conifer forests persist under climate change?
Environmental Research CommunicationsThere is widespread concern that dry conifer forests in the western US will transition to oak and shrub-dominated ecosystems due to global warming and wildfire.
Adam Hanbury-Brown +8 more
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