The Putumayo Atrocities (murder, torture, Slavery of indigenous rubber workers) committed by the British registered Peruvian Amazon Company are well known. official response Government was that there no direct involvement; they were an aberration. There is though much evidence during early years 20th century, other companies in Basin used enganche por deudas bonded labour system. This article, ...

Abstract During the 1620s Girolamo Frescobaldi held post of organist at St Peter’s in Rome concurrently with that Ospedale di Santo Spirito. Both jobs had substantial duties. In this article, three main requirements Spirito—to play for Mass and Vespers, Saturday litanies hospital ward meal times—provide means both reconstructing part daily schedule Spirito tracing Frescobaldi’s activities. The ...

Beaked whales represent one of the groups large mammals about which relatively little is still known. Many beaked whale species are known from less than 50 records and only three partial skeletons. subject to bycatch by fisheries, ingestion plastics, accumulation biocontaminants adverse effects anthropogenic noise. However, inadequacy knowledge their biology means that developing effective cons...

“At the National Institute of Mental Health in the early 1960s, I was involved in investigating the effects of social interaction on the functioning of chronic schizophrenics. One of the approaches I took was to modify social psychological experiments that had been done with normal subjects in ways that I hoped would explain the nature of schizophrenics’ aversion to social interaction. An espec...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The ABCD system was derived to predict early risk of stroke after transient ischemic attack. Independent validations have reported conflicting results. We therefore systematically reviewed published and unpublished data to determine predictive value and generalizability to different clinical settings and users. METHODS Validations of the ABCD and ABCD2 scores were ident...