The Battle over Pastures: The Hidden War in Afghanistan by Liz Alden Wily

“…Despite numerous government initiatives, the Karzai Administration has failed to get to grips with the ownership issues underpinning this contestation and the associated seasonal armed conflict. As rangelands are made more available for purchase in the marketplace and as a surge in mining developments eats into pastures, more conflict may be expected, deepening divisions not only between ethnicities, but also between rich and poor, and between the people and the state.…”
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Le programme canadien des travailleurs agricoles saisonniers et le système régional de migration au Yucatán : où sont les femmes? by Marie France Labrecque

“…This article focuses on migration that takes place under a bilateral agreement between Canada and Mexico, the Seasonal agricultural workers program (SAWP). Opened to Mexican men and women, the program does recruit only a tiny proportion of women assigning them to specific tasks while closely monitoring their behavior. …”
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Exploiting Body and Place in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Catherine Lanone

“…Tess’s plight may be exceptional, but the exception is part of a wider meditation on instability and seasonal flux, as mutations tear the rural social fabric. …”
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Uptake, utilization, and satisfaction with employer sponsored health insurance in a population of vineyard farmworkers by Malcolm Hobbs, Monica Cooper

“…This is principally because when the cost to them is greater, farm employees opt out of health insurance to avoid wage reductions to prioritize other essential living costs. Seasonal workers opt out at especially high rates because they are offered the lowest employer premium contributions and are simultaneously the lowest earners.…”
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Narcos : México, représentation d’une réalité mexicaine ? by Nadia Tahir

“…For its three seasons, Narcos: México, is built on giving a significant place to various historical events in Mexico through a voice-over, the use of archival footage and the integration of Mexican political figures within the plot. …”
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Comparison of Statistical Methods to Graphical Methods in Rainfall Trend Analysis: Case Studies from Tropical Catchments by Upaka Rathnayake

“…Results reveal that, in general, both trend analysis techniques produce comparable results in identifying rainfall trends for different time steps including annual, seasonal, and monthly rainfalls.…”
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A Demand Forecasting Model Leveraging Machine Learning to Decode Customer Preferences for New Fashion Products by S. Anitha, R. Neelakandan

“…Demand forecasting for new products in the fashion industry has always been challenging due to changing trends, longer lead times, seasonal shifts, and the proliferation of products. …”
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Ecological Flow of Intensively Developed and Utilized Rivers in Yunnan Province Based on Improved Tennant Method by LI Jiao, LI Xuehui

“…The ecological flow of rivers is the basic element for maintaining a river ecosystem and an important indicator for controlling the intensity of water resource development and utilization.Studying ecological flow is a significant part of endorsing river health.According to the characteristics of the intensively developed and utilized rivers in Yunnan Province,this paper takes the Niulan River system in the Jinsha River Basin as a representative to carry out ecological flow research.It proposes an improved Tennant method according to the division of the river's “water use period”,“flood control period”,and “water storage period” and compares it with three common hydrological methods.According to the comparison,the proposed improved Tennant method has obvious advantages in meeting the water use characteristics of rivers in development and utilization,the variation law of natural rivers' abundance and dryness throughout the year,the ecological environment conditions in the river course,and the ecological flow satisfaction rate in dry seasons.…”
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Modeling Rainfall Variability over Urban Areas: A Case Study for Kuwait by Jaber Almedeij

“…The rainfall data are analyzed by considering statistics on a seasonal basis and by means of periodogram technique to reveal the periods responsible for the variable pattern. …”
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Talking Local: Florida Consumers’ Food Buying Decisions when Given Local Food Information by Joy N. Rumble, Caroline G. Roper

“… As the fourth of a six-part series about Florida consumers and their perceptions of local food, this EDIS publication focuses on Florida consumers’ purchasing preferences for local food when presented information about where commodities are grown in Florida and the seasonality of Florida-grown products. The Talking Local series focuses on ways Extension agents can assist Florida farmers and ranchers in the labeling, sale, and promotion of locally produced products. …”
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From Commons to Capital: The Creative Destruction of Coastal Real Estate, Environments, and Communities in the US South by Andrew W. Kahrl

“…It shows how, in burgeoning real estate markets, local tax administrative and enforcement powers served as a form of “accumulation by dispossession” integral to the growth and expansion of capitalist land systems, dismantling of non-market modes of land use and exchange, and forced incorporation of local populations into a low-wage, seasonal economy.…”
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Specialty Cut Flower Production Guidelines for Florida - Zinnia by Rick Schoellhorn, Everett Emino, Erin Alvarez

“…This flower is available in a wide variety of colors, and color availability is often seasonally dependent for cut flower sales. Shorter cultivars are also used in annual beds, borders, and containers. …”
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Keeping Bees in Florida by Tomas A. Bustamante, Jamie Ellis, Mary Bammer

“…It explains the ins and outs of beekeeping in Florida, with descriptions of some of the hazards, a few of the important nectar-producing plants, special considerations for seasonal colony growth and management, and Florida beekeeping regulations. …”
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An Archaeological Study of Early Farming Settlements on Iresi Hills by Olusegun Akanni Opadeji

“…On Iresi Hills two rock shelters (Ajaye and Cherubim & Seraphim) were investigated in two seasons from 2017 to 2018 during which pottery, ground stone axes and microlithics were excavated. …”
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Una historia hecha de cartas. La serie documental « Cartas en el tiempo » de La 2 de TVE by Verónica Sierra Blas, Blanca Flaquer Carreras-Candi, Antonio Castillo Gómez, Nuria Barreiro Gómez

“…Between 2018 and 2019 the two seasons of the documentary series Cartas en el tiempo were shown in La 2 of TVE. …”
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Ficción televisiva y estereotipos (inter)nacionales : un acercamiento imagológico a El Ministerio del Tiempo (2015-2016) by Enrique Santos Unamuno

“…From an imagological perspective, this paper focuses on the first two seasons of El Ministerio del Tiempo, a TV series broadcasted in 2015-2016 by the Spanish Radio and Television Corporation (RTVE). …”
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Talking Local: Florida Consumers’ Food Buying Decisions when Given Local Food Information by Joy N. Rumble, Caroline G. Roper

“… As the fourth of a six-part series about Florida consumers and their perceptions of local food, this EDIS publication focuses on Florida consumers’ purchasing preferences for local food when presented information about where commodities are grown in Florida and the seasonality of Florida-grown products. The Talking Local series focuses on ways Extension agents can assist Florida farmers and ranchers in the labeling, sale, and promotion of locally produced products. …”
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2009 H1N1 Influenza by Seth J. Sullivan, MD; Robert M. Jacobson, MD; Walter R. Dowdle, PhD; and Gregory A. Poland

“…The virus has caused disproportionate disease among young people with early reports of virulence similar to that of seasonal influenza. This clinical review provides an update encompassing the virology, epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of the 2009 H1N1 virus. …”
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An Overview of the Grapefruit Market in South Korea by Yan Heng, Hyeyoung Kim, Lisa A. House

“…The industry in Florida now faces fierce competition from other suppliers with lower import prices and different harvest seasons. This 5-page fact sheet written by Yan Heng, Hyeyoung Kim, and Lisa House and published by the Food and Resource Economics Department aims to provide an overview of the grapefruit market in South Korea and evaluate the potential of this market for Florida fresh grapefruit producers.­http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fe1003 …”
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Des allégories des Saisons sur les tissus coptes by Amandine Mérat

“…Taking this observation as a starting point and based on examples from Greco-Roman art, itself strongly influenced by Egyptian weavers, an in-depth study of tapestries in the museums of the Louvre, Rennes and Rouen enabled the identification of the figures represented to be reconsidered and to demonstrate that they were in actual fact pagan allegories, linked to the theme of the Seasons.…”
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