It is characterized by an overtly bureaucratic admission procedure and places an excessive financial responsibility on hosting institutions (p. 7)”. Demographic decline with an ageing population is another reason why the EU is lagging behind in R & D. Therefore, there is a need to increase ...
The gauchos of Argentina have come galloping to the rescue with a savory sauce that will fill your kitchen with the aroma of wild green places: Chimichurri. As usual around here, I went looking into the history of this traditional Argentine condiment and found some surprising things. Food ...
Another source, Wolfgang Benz in Dimension des Volksmords: Die Zahl der Judischen Opfer des Nationalsocialismus (Munich: Deutscher Taschebuch Verlag, 1991) places the final toll at 6.26 million Jews. 2. In the U.S. National Archives, some ...
This is the introduction to the larger forum engaging artists and authors, from very different places and writing in very different genres, in a conversation on ‘the uses and disadvantages of historical comparisons for life’. The idea initially arose in response to the American presidential admini...
Once the wealth- iest colony in the Americas, Haiti is now the Western Hemisphere's poorest country, with more than half of its population living below the World Bank's poverty line.11 Secondly, the slave trade had devastating—and enduring—impacts on the places in Africa from where slaves...
In 1887, a law was adopted “for the conservation of monuments and objects of art of historical and artistic interest”, eight years before the creation of the English National Trust (the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty (more commonly known as the National Trust...
1. Introduction In order to promote cooperation over shared water resources, it is important to highlight the potential for cooperation including the broadest range of possible projects and benefits, options and choices available to riparian parties. In doing so, institutional analysis can be helpful...
This article focuses on the use of Sámi sacrificial places called sieidi (in North Sámi). Their meanings to the Sámi people changed when the indigenous northern tradition collided with the colonial expansion of Christian culture from the south. Sieidi sites have had a long period of use—fro...
1. Introduction Recent advancements in biodiversity informatics have led to significant improvements in global and regional-level biodiversity databases [1]. The abundance of species distribution data has provided robust support for biodiversity research and greatly facilitated the study of large-scale biodi...
1. Introduction There is no agreed definition of a pandemic in the scientific literature [1]. Classically, a pandemic is defined as “an epidemic that occurs worldwide, or over a very large area, crosses international borders, and usually affects a large number of people” [2,3]. However,...