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Voracity and growth econsidered [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This article investigates economic performance when enforceable property rights are missing and subsistence needs matter. It shows that if per capita income is sufficiently high, a windfall gain in productivity triggers behavior that leads to higher ...
Strulik, Holger
core  

The Royal Commission on the Constitution, 1927–1929

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Royal Commission on the Constitution (1927–1929) is a little‐remembered event in Australian political, policy and legal history, which produced—in the words of the constitutional law scholar Geoffrey Sawer—‘a useful student's textbook and a minor alteration in the Judiciary Act’.
Carolyn Holbrook
wiley   +1 more source

Palabras fantasmas, Pantallas voraces

open access: yesCatálogo editorial, 2023
Esta segunda edición ampliada de Palabras Fantasmas Pantallas Voraces surge a partir de proyecciones, evoluciones y ajustes de la metodología de la primera edición. Estas dos primeras décadas del siglo XXI nos han planteado diversos retos que nos sitúan entre la tecnología (que simula progreso y acercamiento a la ciencia ficción), la tenebrosa llamada “
openaire   +1 more source

A Listed Public Heritage or Shopping Mall?

open access: yesDocomomo Journal
The recognition of 20th-century architecture in Brazil is still a field restricted to specialists, which makes the remaining assets of this collection susceptible to defacement or even destruction.
Renato Alves e Silva
doaj   +1 more source

World Health Organization Healthy Ageing model applied to adults with cerebral palsy: A systematic review of reported intrinsic capacity measures

open access: yesDevelopmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.
This systematic review reports on quantitative measures of intrinsic capacity domains of the WHO Healthy Ageing model for adults with CP. Reports from 102 studies showed reduced locomotor, vitality andn possibly cognitive intrinsic capacity reserves for adults aged 30–45 years.
Woroud Alzaher   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of water temperature on the voracity of Gambusia affinis affinis [PDF]

open access: yes, 1978
Gambusia affinis affinis (mosquito fish) were subjected to various temperatures, ranging from 5° to 39°C. Red Tubifex worms were provided to them and the amount they consumed over a 24-hour period was recorded.
Ryan, Ramon Ostin
core  

‘Elbow grease and yellow soap’: Housework time in working‐class households in late‐nineteenth and early twentieth‐century Britain

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Housework is central to feminist calls for recognition of women's work, economic histories explaining the sexual division of labour, and claims regarding the progressive role of scientific knowledge. Yet little is known about the time it actually took. We address this lacuna.
Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries
wiley   +1 more source

Hunting for Hollanders: The community responsibility system, trade sanctions, and public debt in the late‐medieval Low Countries

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt.
Jaco Zuijderduijn
wiley   +1 more source

Examining the Impact of Derelict Pots on Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus) Catch and Harvest Within a Recreational Fishery

open access: yesFisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Derelict fishing gear can negatively affect marine ecosystems through mortality in coastal environments. This study explored the impact of derelict and active crab pots on recreational blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) catch rates and landings in a Mid‐Atlantic estuary by deploying experimental pots in four habitat strata within three sections ...
Randy J. Feris Serrano   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The former distribution of White‐tailed Eagles in Iberia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East: a case study of the importance of understanding historical distribution in informing current conservation and restoration interventions

open access: yesIbis, EarlyView.
The importance of considering historical data in developing conservation and restoration measures for individual species and for wider ecological restoration has been pointed out by recent reviews but often remains neglected in practice. This paper provides a case study illustrating the issue through a review of the former breeding distribution of the ...
Duncan J. Halley
wiley   +1 more source

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