During the two World Wars, Bartonella quintana was responsible for trench fever and is now recognised as an agent of re-emerging infection. Many reports have indicated widespread B. quintana exposure since the 1990s. In order to evaluate its prevalence in ancient popula...

<jats:p> Monte Castelo, an archeological shell mound located on the southwestern periphery of the Amazon basin, is an artificial forest island occupied from the Middle to late-Holocene, and it contains one of the longest, continuous sequences of human occupation anywher...

Abstract As part of a wider study of the transfer of Lapita pottery into and within New Caledonia, we studied a sample of Lapita sherds from the site of Kurin on Mare, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia. The Loyalty Islands lie between the Vanuatu island chain and the rest ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of various corporate governance mechanisms such as board structure, ownership structure and debt level on the demand for better external audit quality. Design/methodology/approach Using a sample of 142 non-f...

This research note is prompted by a paper by Kashyap (Is prenatal sex selection associated with lower female child mortality? Population Studies 73(1): 57-78). Kashyap's paper, which provides 40 original estimates of missing female births, relies on an alternative defin...

La crise securitaire qui sevit actuellement dans la region de Diffa (Niger) et singulierement dans le bassin du lac Tchad, du fait de l’insecurite causee par les islamistes de Boko Haram, a bouleve...

Cet article analyse quelques-unes des raisons pour lesquelles Boko Haram s’est avere incapable de gouverner les territoires qu’il a pu controler avant son allegeance a l’Etat islamique et son retra...

<jats:p>Abstract. Natural fault networks are geometrically complex systems that evolve through time. The evolution of faults and their off-fault damage patterns are influenced by both dynamic earthquake ruptures and aseismic deformation in the interseismic period. To be...

Germination of 2000-year-old seeds of Phoenix dactylifera from Judean desert archaeological sites provides a unique opportunity to study the Judean date palm, described in antiquity for the quality, size, and medicinal properties of its fruit, but lost for centuries. Mi...