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Quantifying the diaspora of knowledge in the last century
... purpose, we have used the Microsoft Academic Graph, the largest publicly available data set providing detailed information about academic publications in all areas of knowl- edge. Our multilayer network map allowed us to ...
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Reporting the natural environmental hazards occurrences and fatalities over the last century
... Moving forward, to the climatological hazards, the regional occurrence and fatality tables are presented in Appendix I (Tables 4-5). There are 721 drought events over the last century with the majority of ...
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Research Note:Effects of human activities on the Yangtze River suspended sediment flux into the estuary in the last century
... result, the suspended sediment flux into the estuary dramatically decreased, even though the sediment yield from many areas of the basin increased in recent decades. Human activities gradually increased the suspended ...
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A flood geodatabase and its climatological applications: the case of Catalonia for the last century
... Assuming that natural events will occur in the future in similar circumstances as those that led to past events, a valu- able aid to the study of this natural hazard lies in knowl- edge of historical events and the ...
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Unification and peace: How were the German churches involved in the search for unity to overcome conflicts of the last decades of the last century?
... Was this an appropriate conclusion to draw from this event? As an event, it was no doubt both contingent and basically inexplicable. Of course, there were many attempts to account for what had happened. But I do not know ...
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Abstract During the last century, entanglement was the bone of contention between the two main
... Together with QM, GR has been an absolutely successful theory for the last 100 years [183]. With different nuances and approaches, in which GR has had to interact even with different forms of spins [184], it has ...
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Increases in the polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon content of an agricultural soil over the last century
... Data from Table II have been used to calculate annual rates of increase in soil PAHs at Broadbalk. The plough layer at Broadbalk contains 2870 t of soil ha"1, so the changes in soil [r] ...
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GRACE-REC: a reconstruction of climate-driven water storage changes over the last century
... The primary objective of this paper is to provide long and consistent time series of climate-driven TWS variability. Al- though the temporal coverage of GRACE observations will be extended by the GRACE Follow-On mission ...
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Functional to fashionable: knitwear's evolution throughout the last century and into the millennium
... Knitwear has demonstrated throughout the ages that it can swiftly adapt to change in demand and the many trends of fashion. In the 80s Mason acknowledged that knitwear influences fashion and therefore new demands are ...
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The economic aftermath of the Welfare State in the last century
... the last twenty years a number of countries such as New Zealand or Chile have introduced fundamental fiscal and economic reforms to cut back the role and size of government in the ...
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Some Significant Developments in Criminal law and Procedure in the Last Century
... Some of the more significant of these involve: a marked decline in the role of the grand jury; a trend toward the simplification of indictments; the advent of and recourse to waiver of j[r] ...
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Are there techno-scientific projects in Mexico?
... The* technoSscientific* projects* emerged* during* the* 40’s* decade,* and* were* consolidated* in* the* United* States* of* America* pending* the* last* decades* of* last* century.* This* work’s* ...
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2005 Job Lewis Smith Award Acceptance Address: Passion Beyond Reason
... Lewis Hine, Grace Abbott, and Edward Flanagan were 3 of many children’s advocates of the last century.. They worked for children with a passion beyond reason.[r] ...
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Blogging - An Efficient Tool To Incorporate Technology And Reading Skills
... 21st Century learners have already grown up with digital technology (Prensky, 2001) and encompassed by innovation and media who have an access to information from the Internet anywhere, anytime who has an ability ...
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On the Theory of Fractional Order Differential Games of Pursuit
... Firstly, by the middle of the last century it has been adequately worked out the mathematical foundations of fractional integro-differential calculus and the theory of differential equat[r] ...
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Winners of globalization
... the last century” (Kohler, 2002) 33 ...th century was so much better and qualitatively different from any earlier periods in history that a “new perspective of the world economy was needed to ...
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Ruth Landes, A Cult Matriarchate and Male Homosexuality (facsimile)
... Among certain American Indian tribes of the last century, the berdache or passive homosexual was protected, encouraged to adopt the social and sexual roles of women, so[r] ...
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Designing and developing a compartment to use the Human Treadmill as a Rat’s Treadmill
... Many research utilized animals in experimental studies. Achievements of medicine in the last century were greatly dependent to the use of animals. Key events such as cure of diabetes, blood cancer and organ ...
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SAVINGS and economic growth: a historical analysis of the relationship between savings and economic growth in the CAPE Colony economy, 1850 1909
... The coefficient of the first cointegrating equation (identified as savings) has the expected sign (negative) and is statistically significant. This is an indication that there is a correction mechanism to any external ...
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Spatial and habitat variation in aphid, butterfly, moth and bird phenologies over the last half century
... Whilst overall long–term trends in phenologies across all habi - tats became earlier over time, bird and butterfly mean phenologies tended to be significantly later in agr[r] ...
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