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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"FALKLANDS"”.
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Photography and the Falklands Conflict : Homeric Heroism in Modern Warfare
The Falklands Conflict has always loomed large throughout my adult life. As a young man of 19 years old, I watched the television and read the newspapers with the same degree of excitement and fascination as most of the British population. In the following year, as a direct result of the passion …
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Holocene sea-level changes in the Falkland Islands: new insights into accelerated sea-level rise in the 20th Century
… ice melt produces the largest signal. The Falklands reconstruction indicated sea levels in the early 20th century accelerated compared to the long-term rate, synchronous with accelerations observed globally. The magnitude of the acceleration in the Falklands reconstruction was greater than …
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Understanding transmission and control of Cystic Echinococcosis and other taeniid infections in the Falkland Islands
… granulosus and other taeniids endemic in the Falklands and investigate how their continued transmission can occur in the face of the prolonged intensive control programme. A questionnaire survey identified possible methods of disposal of offal that in a previous study, were associated with …
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Η ΣΥΜΜΕΤΟΧΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ ΣΤΑ ΗΝΩΜΕΝΑ ΕΘΝΗ, (1974-1984): ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΕΞΩΤΕΡΙΚΗΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗΣ
… A) THE INTERNATIONAL CRISES (MIDDLE EAST, FALKLANDS, AFGANISTAN) AND B) THE DECOLONISATION (SOUTH AFRICA, RODESIA, W. SAHARA, EAST TIMOR, GIBRALTAR, MAYOTTE). IT IS PRECEDED BY A PRELIMINARY CHAPTER REGARDING THE METHODS OF VOTES ANALYSIS IN THE U.N. AND THE METHODOLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS OF …
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The Falkland fritillary: biological and ecological factors in the conservation of Yramea cytheris cytheris (Drury 1773).
… butterflies were larger than those from the Falklands, with a lower wing aspect ratio. Morphometric analyses showed Latin American butterflies had more scalloped outer margins to their forewings. Y. c. cytheris showed local adaptation in claw shape, with those from the windiest sites being …
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From Condemnation to Conformity: Carter and Reagan's Foreign Policy towards the Argentine Junta, 1977-1982.
… relations until Argentina's invasion of the Falklands in April, 1982. The works of many authors were consulted in conjunction with newspapers, journal articles, government proceedings and declassified documents obtained from the National Security Archives.</p>
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Evolution of tectonic and stratigraphic geometries in the Southern Outeniqua Basin
… strike slip faults, including the proto-Agulhas Falklands Fracture Zone, are proposed to have developed along the southern margin during the incipient formation of the Weddell Sea (147Ma) between Antarctica and West Gondwana. Later mid-Jurassic (150-130Ma) extension along the North-Falkland rift …
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Imagining and Remembering the Soldier at the Imperial War Museum (1980-1995)
… which includes Linda Kitson (b. 1945), for the Falklands War in 1982, John Keane (b.1954) in the Gulf War in 1991, and Peter Howson's (b. 1958) work in Bosnia between 1992–1994. From a foundation of existing academic research on the representation of the soldier in art, which has informed a …
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That Dark Remembered Day - a novel, and critical self-reflection on composition and the editorial process
… of the novel. Research was conducted into the Falklands conflict by studying first-hand accounts of those who served, allowing me to blur fact with fiction, a process that delivered its own ethical challenges.
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Analysis of seabird observation and satellite tracking data in the Falkland Islands to assess suitability for proposing Marine Important Bird Areas
… conducted at-sea survey research in the Falklands. The collation and analysis of multiple satellite data sets found small geographic areas of high usage by the four tracked species in comparison to their total foraging range. With the application of additional data through further …
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Attitudes in Britain towards its Armed Forces and war 1960-2000
… that did take place over the period, Borneo, the Falklands, Bosnia, Kosovo and the Gulf War, a methodical view is taken of opinion polls, press coverage, and letters pages to establish trends at the political, elite and public levels. The media has been used as a reference throughout the thesis as …
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The biogeography of Striated Caracaras Phalcoboenus australis
… they live only on the outermost islands of the Falklands/Malvinas archipelago and the Fuego-Patagonian islands of southernmost Argentina and Chile. Striated Caracaras' morphological differences from their closest relatives in the genus Phalcoboenus (which inhabit alpine habitats in the Andes) …
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'Walk the Perimeter': Stories of Place in the Falkland Islands
… of what Anna Tsing calls ghosts. In the Falklands these are interconnected themes of personal, political and ecological loss, from various perspectives and on non-linear temporal scales. Islanders and visitors to the Islands conducting environmental scientific research and conservation …
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BBC TV's Panorama, conflict coverage and the 'Westminster consensus'.
… (notably Suez, Northern Ireland and the Falklands) and deals, primarily, with programmes which met with Government disapproval and censure. However, little has been written on Panorama's less controversial, more routine war reporting, or on the programme's more recent history, its …
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The law of the sea: the United States, Canada and the deep seabed
… that ran the country. The military war for the Falklands is indicative of the nature of modern warfare between Third World countries. It shows that the gap in military capabilities between Third and First World countries is narrowing significantly. Modern warfare between a First and Third World …
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Cooperation on non-proliferation: An analysis of the Treaty of Tlatelolco and the Latin American and Caribbean Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (NWFZ)
… issues. Undoubtedly, the 1982 Malvinas/Falklands War between the UK and Argentina was a significant watershed for the relations of this latter with the US. This event heightened their mutual distrust and fuelled Argentina’s reluctance to sign Tlatelolco. The formal compliance of …
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La generazione perduta delle Malvine: La memoria dei soldati argentini fra dittatura, sconfitta e transizione alla democrazia (1982- 2015)
Questa tesi tratta sulla memoria della guerra delle Malvine, e della transizione alla democrazia in Argentina. Attraverso le testimonianze di reduci e dei suoi familiari, si analizza un periodo fondamentale per la storia Argentina. Si studia in particolare la generazione dei reduci, cresciuta …