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Abstract: Water is essential for human survival but water-related illnesses are the most common health threat in the developing world. An estimated 25 000 people die every day as a result of water-related diseases Human existence depends on water. Water interacts with solar energy to determine...
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On the nation’s largest aquifer live 2.3 million people, most of whom depend on the Ogallala’s water for household consumption, as well as for agricultural and industrial use. As the Ogallala’s levels decline, policies need to be developed to encourage conservation of this resource that...
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The concept of virtual water refers to the volume of water used in the production of a commodity or a service. The concept was identified by the geographer Tony Allan in the early 1990s, to draw attention on the global economic processes that ameliorate local water deficits in the MENA region...
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. The relationship obtained for France is characterized by A0=-1, A1=4, A2=0.095, t0=4 years, and t1=4 years. For GDP … Banque de France monetary policy introduced in 1995 does not disturb the long-term links. All the individual relationships … force change indicates that since 1995 the Banque de France has been wrongly applying the policy fixing the monetary growth …
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intensive forms of industry. Hamilton’s analyses of price and wage data for 16th- and 17th-century Spain, France, and England …). But they had to rely on the same dubious and indeed often untrustworthy price and wage data for England and France (and of …
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In 1997, the French government put into effect a law that permanently exempted young French male citizens born after Jan 1, 1979 from mandatory military service while still requiring those born before that cutoff date to serve. This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to identify the...
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"Evidence-based medicine” approaches began to be formalized in the early 1990s to promote a conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in decision-making on care for individual patients. These approaches were subsequently extended to other spheres of public decision...
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-industrial states relied on private individuals to collect taxes; (ii) why after 1600 both England and France moved from competitive … self-undermining in England where it was quickly replaced by direct collection, but lasted in France until the French …
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Stable employment seems to be difficult to access for descendants of immigrants in contemporary France. This article …
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The paper presents the results of a research on railway regulation and liberalisation in Italy, France, Germany and …
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