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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Southern Europe"”.
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The dynamics of circular migration in Southern Europe
… migration. Our focus is a case study of the European Union-funded circular migration program to support the strawberry harvest in the province of Huelva in Spain. Covering the time period of 2002-2011, this thesis provides a system dynamics model to represent the key elements that led to the …
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Contextual Dynamics of Immigration Attitudes: Regional Differences in Southern Europe
… of ethnic competition and prejudice in the Southern European context. I argue that popular attitudes towards immigration are correlated with a set of individual level factors (e.g. perceptions of personal and collective threat, as well as measures of political socialization), which are …
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THE POLITICS OF LONG-TERM CARE IN SOUTHERN EUROPE: A CROSS-CASE COMPARISON OF SPAIN, ITALY AND PORTUGAL
… consequential domains of contemporary European welfare states, positioned at the intersection of social and health policy and shaped by intersecting demographic, epidemiological, and labour market transformations. Yet despite the rapid growth of sociological and institutional …
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Bionomics and Sampling of the Imported Crucifer Weevil, Baris Lepidii Germar
… range of cruciferous plants grown in central and southern Europe. In May of 1977 this insect was discovered infesting commercial horseradish fields in Illinois. A research program composed of several subsections was designed to obtain useful information on the bionomics of the imported crucifer …
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Contact Allergy to Textile Dyes - Clinical and Chemical Studies on Disperse Dyes
… has been documented in studies carried out in southern Europe, however, corresponding studies have not been performed in the Scandinavian countries. The aim of this study was thus to evaluate the prevalence of allergic reactions to a mix of textile dyes consisting of 8 disperse dyes: Disperse …
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Advancing a gendered approach to climate adaptation in the metropolitan cities of Cape Town and Ethekwini
… characterised by scorching temperatures across southern Europe and raging wildfires in Canada. For years, scientists and environmentalists have been warning that human activity is negatively affecting the planet, and recent catastrophic events are indicative of these forecasts coming to pass.
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Agricultural Adaptations during the Late Bronze Age: Archaeobotanical Evidence from Sovjan, Albania, and Tsoungiza, Greece
… the Late Bronze Age (LBA) (ca. 1600-1000 BC) in southern Europe. By studying archaeobotanical assemblages recovered through spatially intensive sampling methods from the LBA deposits from Sovjan, Albania, and Tsoungiza, Greece, agricultural regimes and landuse practices are examined in light of …
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Conservación de quirópteros en el Sur de Europa
… advance the knowledge about bat populations in southern Europe, with special emphasis on two aspects: their winter activity in temperate climates of southern Europe and their relationship with environmental variables, and the impact of wind energy infrastructure development on this faunal group. …
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Climate changing in microwave telecommunication links (sleet)
… 10 m per year over the last 30 years in part of Europe as it shows some decrease in other parts of the world approximately 5 m a year. This has led to a slow decrease in the incidence of fading due to wet ice over southern Europe but isolated large increases in regions where the air temperature …
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THE WISDOM OF THE FLIES. SOCIETY, ENVIRONMENT, AND METABOLIC JUSTICE IN RURAL SARDINIA.
… analysis to the political economy of Southern Europe, showing how changes in the economic/political landscape provoked transformations in people’s subjectivities, and the withering of the local social and ecological fabric. Furthermore, it demonstrates how the diffusion of …
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The transition to adulthood revisited: Gender and socio-economic differences in the timing of events among young Europeans
… decades, the transition to adulthood of young Europeans has become increasingly long. Nevertheless, the existing literature has not comprehensively examined the timing at which events are experienced among recent birth cohorts across European countries; further, the composite role played by …
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Signatures of selection in the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in Europe using genotype-by-sequencing
… refugia or existed as a continuous population in southern Europe. Regardless, previous studies highlight the importance of refugia of the Last Glacial Maximum period in shaping genetic variation and differentiation in many taxa. This study aims to provide additional evidence to this dispute while …
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Effects of climate and forest management on the water and nitrogen status of European beech regeneration and understorey vegetation
… on forests dominated by the drought susceptible European beech, especially when grown on limestone-derived soils with low water storage capacity, being common in Central and Southern Europe, are important. Moreover, climate models emphasize the significance of management practices for the …
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The factory of coexistence
… and Herzegovina and the first steel plant in southern Europe, the Factory of Coexistence exploits the transformative potential of the ruin in the rewriting of social, economic and environmental stories. In the Factory of Coexistence, architecture is a medium that reconnects us with the past, …
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Original Gangsters: Genre, Crime, and the Violences of Settler Democracy
… to depict white-ethnic conflict in the U.S. and Europe, as a type of resistance to race-based political economic policies imposed by imperial regimes. After linking the subaltern classes of pre-20th-century southern Europe, southern Africa, South Asia, and the U.S. South—all subjected to …
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Artisans and consumption in sixteenth-century Verona
… as an intermediary for trade across Italy and Southern Europe. However, the city has been assigned scant attention from historians of the Renaissance in Italy. Whilst the Renaissance has long been recognised as a transformative movement in Italian and European history, research into its culture …
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Thermal biology and establishment potential of two non-native candidate biological control agents, Nesidiocoris tenuis Reuter (Hemiptera: Miridae) and Lysiphlebus testaceipes (Cresson) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Aphidiinae), in the U.K.
… of agricultural and horticultural pests in southern Europe. Through a series of laboratory and field assessments, this study investigates the establishment potential of these two species in cool temperate climates typical of northern Europe. Laboratory results demonstrated a low level of …
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Geographical information systems and remote sensing in mapping and monitoring fire-altered forest
… traditional land use patterns in Mediterranean Europe impact upon this vulnerability. These changes have recently affected the fire regime which in tum has led to an increase in the occurrence and destructiveness of wildfires in Southern Europe. The research aims to monitor the impact of fires …
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Evolutionary and genetic basis of morphological variation in Populus nigra (European black poplar)
… the distribution of species, particularly in southern Europe, where droughts are predicted to increase in frequency. In forest trees, intraspecific variation in leaf size, branching architecture, and growth rate among populations are considered adaptive and likely related to climatic …
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