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, factors, goals, and adaptive learning influences driving solar energy technology adoption (SETA) process are first … limitations/implications – The research is limited to solar photovoltaic and solar water heating technology adoption in Botswana … other sectors and other non-solar technologies, thus providing a general alternative framework for enabling the widespread …
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whites, indicating a uniquely 19th century phenomenon may have inhibited black stature growth. It is geography and insolation … that present the most striking attribute for 19th century black and statures, and greater insolation is documented here to …
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stature growth. It is geography and direct sunlight (insolation) that present a striking attribute of 19th century black and … white statures, and greater insolation is documented here to be associated with taller black and white statures. …
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statures, 19th century blacks were consistently shorter than whites. Greater insolation (vitamin D production), is documented … here to be associated with taller black statures. Consistent with the insolation-hypothesis, mulattos were taller than … darker pigmented blacks, and most of the mulatto-black stature differential was attributable to age and insolation. Black …
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solar radiation, skin pigmentation, and nativity. Greater insolation (vitamin D production) is documented here to be … related to insolation. …
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The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in economics. Nevertheless, a neglected area in historical stature studies is the relationship between stature and family size, and statures are documented here to be positively related with family size. The...
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Tuberculosis remains a major cause of international mortality, and researchers and policy advocates continue to seek a cost effective prevention and treatment. To better understand the current dilemma, this paper considers the physical and material environments associated with 19th century US...
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whites, indicating a uniquely 19th century phenomenon may have inhibited black stature growth. It is geography and insolation … that present the most striking attribute for 19th century black and statures, and greater insolation is documented here to …
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