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Fostering the Biosecurity Norm: Biosecurity Education for the Next Generation of Life Scientists [PDF]
, 2008 Sustainable education on biosecurity and dual use for life scientists is increasingly recognised as being an important element of broader efforts to achieve biosecurity.
Mancini, Guilio, Revill, James
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A high prevalence of teenage pregnancy in Ghana has raised critical concerns. This study aims to understand the causes of early pregnancy in Akatsi North, Ghana, while also assessing the underlying attitudes of young people toward future marriage and pregnancy.
Jihye Kim, Wendy Olsen, Mohammed Ibrahim
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Journal of Magnesium and AlloysRevealing the localized corrosion process of Mg alloy is considered as one of the most significant ways for improving its corrosion resistance. The reliable monitor should be high distinguishability and real-time in liquid environment. Herein, Mg-9Al-1Fe
Junping Shen +9 more
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Reply to "Comment on 'Precision measurement of the Casimir-Lifshitz force in a fluid'" [PDF]
, 2008 We have reviewed the Comment of Geyer et al. [arXiv:0708.1548] concerning our recent work [Phys. Rev. A 75, 060102 (R) (2007)], and while we disagree with their criticisms, we acknowledge them for giving us the opportunity to add interesting addition ...
D. C. Montgomery +4 more
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Revealing patterns of endemism in the transatlantic family Chelodesmidae (Polydesmida: Diplopoda)
Cladistics, EarlyView.Abstract With fossil records dating back to the Silurian/Late Ordovician, millipedes stand out as one of the earliest terrestrial animal groups. Their limited vagility and high endemism make them valuable tools for formulating and testing biogeographic hypotheses, including those related to macro‐vicariance events.
Rodrigo Salvador Bouzan +4 more
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Electrostatics and confinement in Einstein's unified field theory
, 2007 A way for appending sources at the right-hand sides of the field equations of Einstein's unified field theory is recalled. Two exact solutions endowed with point sources in equilibrium are shown, and their physical meaning is discussed.Comment: 4 pages ...
Antoci, S. +2 more
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Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
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, 2003 Professional engineers work as experts who influence the work of others. They rarely have direct contact with the products of an enterprise. They work with analogues such as graphs, algorithms and simulations, and engage in discussions in specialized ...
Monk, John
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Managed decline: Muddling through with the Sterling (dis)Agreements, 1968–74
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract How do policymakers manage the decline of an international currency? This paper revisits the view that the ‘Sterling Agreements’ of 1968–74 – bilateral contracts between the UK and sterling‐holding governments – marked a successful paradigm shift towards sterling's managed ‘retirement’.
Alan de Bromhead +3 more
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Journal of Materials Research and TechnologyFriction stir welding (FSW) is one of the solid-state methods for welding dissimilar metals to inhibit the formation of intermetallic phases. The effect of the heterogeneous microstructures of FSW 6061-T6 Al and C1100 Cu dissimilar joints on corrosion in
Yi-Ting Wu, I-Chung Cheng, Chao-Sung Lin
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