The North American ostracod Eusarsiella zostericola (Cushman, 1906) arrives in mainland Europe

Belaz Arrives in North America

Haul truck future TIMES have been hard for the major truck manufacturers with a number of major mining projects on hold, particularly pressurising the ultra-class market where the key contracts are relatively few and far between, compared to lower-capacity classes. The following details developments at Caterpillar and Liebherr, but also reveals for the first time BELAZ’s plans to roll out key m...

Different mechanisms shaped the transition to farming in Europe and the North American Woodland

The introduction and emergence of agriculture into Eastern North America and Europe proceeded very differently: it varied in timing, speed, and mechanism—despite similar woodland environments. To resolve the different subsistence paths, I employ the Global Land Use and technology Evolution Simulator, a numerical model for simulating demography, innovation, domestication, migration and trade wit...

Control and Eradication of the North American Ruddy Duck in Europe

The ruddy duck (Oxyura jamaicensis) was introduced to wildfowl collections in the United Kingdom (UK) in the 1940s and subsequently escaped into the wild. Estimated numbers have increased rapidly in the UK from 20 wintering birds in 1962 to 5,946 in January 2000. As the population of feral ruddy ducks in the UK rose, so did the number of records of ruddy ducks on the European mainland. In 1984,...

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Family Planning Perspectives In the early 1990s, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved subdermal contraceptive implants and the injectable contraceptive depot medroxy progesterone acetate (DMPA), adding two long-term methods to the array of contraceptives currently available. A primary concern associated with these highly effective methods is that, as has been documented among women wh...

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