<p>After the First World War, Germany lost its overseas territories, becoming Europe's first post-colonial nation. After 1919, and especially between 1933 and 1945, however, German colonialists advocated for the return of ...

In 2009, 94 percent of the complaints (8,811 cases) received by the Sri Lankan Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) were registered by domestic workers overseas. At a minimum, 38 percent of these complaints (3,567 cases) ...

Combined heat and power (CHP) is an approach to generating both electricity and usable thermal energy than can offer numerous environmental and economic benefits over more conventional generation methods. Previous research ...

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The purpose of this note is to suggest some improvements in current statistical analysis of computer-simulated data. To be concrete, we will take a recent paper by Rosser T. nelson [7] which appears in this journal as the ...

These comments were submitted on behalf of the Scholarly Communications Office at Duke University in response to a request for information from the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy. They address questions ...

Commercial policy is often advocated as a useful tool for combating such macroeconomic ills as unemployment and chronic balance of payments deficits. This paper examines the role of expectations in determining the output ...

In this paper, we present results which are part of larger study carried out in five districts of the eastern Indian state of Orissa, where endemic malaria represents one of the most serious public health concerns. One of ...

Central corneal thickness (CCT), one of the most highly heritable human traits (h(2) typically>0.9), is important for the diagnosis of glaucoma and a potential risk factor for glaucoma susceptibility. We conducted genome-wide ...