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Environmental Scarcity and Violent Conflict: The Case of South Africa
- in Journal of Peace Research. Vol
, 1998
"... The causal relationship between environmental scarcities- the scarcity of renewable resources- and the outbreak of violent conflict is complex. Environtnental scarcity emerges within a political, social, economic, and ecological context and interacts with many of these contextual factors to contribu ..."
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conflict in South Africa. Within South Africa, violence arose at precisely the same time that many anticipated a trans-formation to a more peaceful society- upon the release of Nelson Mandela, the end of the ban on pol-itical activity and the official end to apartheid. This article provides a new
Complicated grief and its relationship to mental health and well-being among Bosnian refugees after resettlement in the United States: Implications for practice, policy, and research. Traumatology
"... November 1995, officially ending the war ..."
An RTP payload format for generic forward error correction
- RFC
, 1999
"... This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards " (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this pro ..."
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This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards " (STD 1) for the standardization state and status
Responsible Agency: Responsible Official:
, 2011
"... Hawaiian bottomfish stocks are managed under the Fishery Ecosystem Plan for the Hawaiian Archipelago (Hawaii FEP), developed by the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council), and implemented by NMFS under the authority of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. Botto ..."
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and ends on August 31 the following year. For all other Hawaii bottomfish stocks, the fishing year begins January 1 and ends on December 31. Consistent with the Hawaii FEP, NMFS proposes an annual catch limit (ACL) of 346,000 lb for the main Hawaiian Islands Deep 7 bottomfish during the 2011-12 fishing
Generating Summaries of Multiple News Articles
- In Proceedings, 18th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
, 1995
"... So That Nobody Has To Go To School If They Don't Want To by Roger Sipher A decline in standardized test scores is but the most recent indicator that American education is in trouble. One reason for the crisis is that present mandatory-attendance laws force many to attend school who have no wish ..."
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only those who are committed to getting an education to attend. This will not end public education. Contrary to conventional belief, legislators enacted compulsory-attendance laws to legalize what already existed. William Landes and Lewis Solomon, economists, found little evidence that mandatory
Official Journal of The Histochemical Society
, 1964
"... (1) In the histochemical method for adenosine triphos)hatase, when magnesium and ATP are in equivalent concentrations, and sodium is present in the medium, staining occurs in the tissues. When sodium is omitted froln this medium some structures-previously stained in the presence of sodium-fail to st ..."
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magnesium ions and ATP are not equivalent in the substrate, sodium and ouabain fail to affect stainmg. (5) (‘ertain tissue structures-such a.s the axonic nerve ending--which have been shown to contain sodium-activated ATPa.se in tatro, stain in the presence of sodium when magnesium and ATP are equivalent, l
Scantegrity II: End-to-End Verifiability for Optical Scan Election Systems using Invisible Ink Confirmation Codes
"... We introduce Scantegrity II, a practical enhancement for optical scan voting systems that achieves increased election integrity through the novel use of confirmation codes printed on ballots in invisible ink. Voters mark ballots just as in conventional optical scan but using a special pen that devel ..."
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that develops the invisible ink. Verifiability of election integrity is end-to-end, allowing voters to check that their votes are correctly included (without revealing their votes) and allowing anyone to check that the tally is computed correctly from the included votes. Unlike in the original Scantegrity
End in sight for housing troubles?
, 2011
"... A historical relationship between home prices and family income is examined based on more than 40 years of data. A new home affordability ratio based on the average home price, family income and mortgage rates is analyzed in the historical context. This indicator is used to gauge the current state o ..."
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of the residential housing market in the United States. Historical data points to an imminent but slow recovery in the housing market over the next few years. Two years after the Great Recession officially ended, the state of the US housing market remains an area of significant concern and continues to attract a lot
Is Official Foreign Exchange Intervention Effective?
, 2003
"... Many governments have intervened in foreign exchange markets to try to dampen volatility and to slow or reverse currency movements.Their concern is that excessive short-term volatility and longerterm swings in exchange rates that “overshoot” values justified by fundamental conditions may hurt their ..."
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their economies, particularly sectors heavily involved in international trade.And the foreign exchange market certainly has been volatile recently. For example, one euro cost about $1.15 in January 1999, dropped to only $.85 by the end of 2000, and recently climbed to over $1.18. Over this same period, one U
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