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Managing Uganda's Biodiversity Amid Climate and Societal Change
ABSTRACT Uganda is home to remarkable biodiversity, supports diverse ecosystems ranging from glacier‐topped mountains, tropical rain forests, to semi‐arid systems, has a well‐established and effective protected areas system, and benefits substantially from nature tourism.
Patrick A. Omeja +4 more
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Winston Spencer Churchill. Sus Enfermedades y la Medicina de su Época.
Escribir de la vida de Winston Spencer Churchill es verdaderamente fascinante toda vez que este personaje fue un hombre apasionado, controvertido e intenso que llegó a ser, sin temor a equivocarnos, el líder más importante del siglo XX en Inglaterra y ...
Ricardo Rueda González
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Churchill and the Historians [PDF]
Review of Robert Blake & Roger Louis, eds., Churchill: A Major Reassessment of his Life in Peace and War. London: Oxford University Press, 1992; Tuvia Ben-Moshe, Churchill: Strategy and History.
Vogel, Robert
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The CliDaR‐Africa project engages undergraduates in digitising historical African weather records, rescuing over 300,000 observations from Madagascar and the Central African Republic (1949–1966). Analysis of the Madagascar data reveals overlooked extreme events, including a sequence of tropical cyclones, highlighting the country's vulnerability to ...
Simon Noone +3 more
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Rally‐Round‐the‐Flag: The Case of COVID‐19 in Denmark
ABSTRACT Rally‐round‐the‐flag describes a situation where voters rally behind their government and leader in the fight against an external enemy. The COVID‐19 pandemic was such an external enemy and Danish voters responded immediately with an increased support of about seven percentage points for the government and a significant 33 percentage points ...
Kasper M. Hansen
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"When you lose India, don`t blame me" . Winston Churchill und Indien 1939 bis 1947 [PDF]
Winston Spencer Churchill trat in den 20er und 30er Jahren als energischer Feind aller Bemuehungen auf, Indien einen von Großbritannien unabhaengigeren Status zu gewaehren.
Kleibrink, Bernhard
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ABSTRACT Global food systems face increasing environmental, ethical, and health‐related challenges, prompting the search for sustainable protein alternatives. Cultured meat has emerged as a promising option, offering potential benefits such as reduced environmental impact, improved animal welfare, and nutritional customization.
Ana Carolina Agne Ferreira Zão +3 more
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CEO Social Class Origins and Risk Taking
ABSTRACT The literature has shown that personal characteristics of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) affect their decision‐making. We use the type of school they attended as a proxy for social class origins and show that CEOs from the working‐ or middle‐class origins take on significantly higher corporate leverage by nearly 15%.
Andrew Urquhart, Hanxiong Zhang
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The Happy Warrior: Winston Churchill and the Representation of War, 1895–1901
That Churchill found the glory and dangers of war attractive is in no doubt. Most people today only remember his massive role in the British war effort during the Second World War, but in fact he was an active participant in more distant conflicts—as ...
Antoine Capet
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Funding the Arts and Humanities is Worth Fighting For
There’s an old story about Winston Churchill that is not true but is worth repeating. When approached about cutting funding for the arts so the money could go to the war effort during World War II, Churchill supposedly replied: “Then what are we fighting
Powell, Dave
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