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International NGOs and the Guatemalan Peace Accords
This paper looks at the impact of the Guatemalan Peace Accords of 1996 on the work of International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs). In...
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Savanna Fires in East-Central Senegal: Distribution Patterns, Resource Management and Perceptions
The temporal and spatial distribution of fires for an area in east-central Senegal was determined on the basis of multi-temporal NOAA AVHRR satellite...
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Reconsidering the Role of Absentee Herd Owners: A View from Mongolia
Since the privatization of livestock in 1992, rates of absentee ownership of livestock have increased sharply in Mongolia. Unlike other documented...
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Revisiting occupational sex segregation in the United States, 1910–1990: Results from a log-linear approach
I reexamine trends in the strength and structure of occupational sex segregation in the United States from 1910 to 1990. Log-multiplicative models...
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Urban versus Rural: Fertility Decline in the Cities and Rural Districts of Prussia, 1875 to 1910
Marital fertility in 54 Prussian cities and 407 Prussian Kreise (administrative areas) is analyzed using unusually rich and detailed socioeconomic...
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What Do You Think of Smallpox Inoculation? A Crucial Question in the Eighteenth Century, Not Only for Physicians
I would like to preface my remarks with two quotations. The first appeared in the literary supplement to a Braunschweig gazette in 1768:...
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Technical Education and State Formation in Nineteenth-Century England and France
Modern economists generally see human skills as the key factor in economic competitiveness (Porter, 1990). Vocational education has consequently been...
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Legal and policy implications of the flexible employment relationship
The flexible employment relationship encompassing as it does so many different kinds of arrangements — temporary, leased, homeworking, telecommuting,...
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A framework for the analysis of gender, intra-household dynamics, and livestock disease control with examples from Uasin Gishu district, Kenya
As livestock disease control programs in Africa begin to rely more upon para-professionals and livestock producers as deliverers of animal health...
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Gender and livestock in African production systems: An introduction
Since the 1970s, the study of gender relations and labor and resource use in different production systems has become an important subject of inquiry....
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Killing with kindness: Veterinary euthanasia and the social construction of personhood
Euthanizing companion animals is a common feature of veterinary practice. Based on data collected during participant observation in a large general...
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The use of the CES-D for measuring symptoms of depression in three rural Russian villages
This paper reports the use of a standardized depression scale (CES-D) in a sample survey of three Russian villages (N=263) in the summer of 1993. The...
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Veterinary medicine and animal husbandry in Mexico: From empiricism to science and technology
Foot-and-mouth disease was the event which led to the increased and improved training of veterinarians able to produce through their research new...
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Annoying owners: Routine interactions with problematic clients in a general veterinary practice
Based on a year of fieldwork in a large, mixed-practice veterinary clinic in New England, this discussion focuses on the criteria veterinarians use...