Stream biodiversity: The ghost of land use past

The influence of past land use on the present-day diversity of stream invertebrates and fish was investigated by comparing watersheds with different land-use history. Whole watershed land use in the 1950s was the best predictor of present-day diversity, whereas riparian land use and watershed land use in the 1990s were comparatively poor indicators. Our findings indicate that past land-use activity, particularly agriculture, may result in long-term modifications to and reductions in aquatic diversity, regardless of reforestation of riparian zones. Preservation of habitat fragments may not be sufficient to maintain natural diversity in streams, and maintenance of such biodiversity may require conservation of much or all of the watershed.

General Principles of EU Law: The Ghost in the Platonic Heaven in Need of Conceptual Clarification. Pittsburgh Papers on the European Union Vol. 2, 2013

General principles are en vogue in EU law – and in need of conceptual clarification. A closer look at several concepts of principle in legal philosophy and legal theory sheds light upon the concept of general principles in EU law. A distinction between an aprioristic model of principle and a model of principle informed by legal positivism may contribute to clarifying the genesis of a (general) principle in EU law, as well as its nature and functions. This paper demonstrates that an evolution has taken place from a reliance on seemingly natural law inspired reflections of general principles via the desperate search to ground general principles in various kinds of sources based on a more or less sound methodology towards an increasing reliance on strictly positivistic approaches. Against this backdrop, general principles are likely to lose significance where there are other norms while retaining an important yet uncontrollable role where the traditional canon of sources is silent.

The Ghost of Deflation Past. CEPS Hi-level Brief, 13 December 2013

This note takes a look at the development of monetary aggregates and debt in the G7 (US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan), plus non-G7 euro-area countries, which have an important bearing on the future development of price levels. It also discusses the problem of restoring external competitiveness in the weaker euro-area countries without aggravating their debt burden. The key conclusions are i) monetary and debt developments in the G7 countries point to relatively sluggish growth but do not signal deflation risks and ii) the realignment of ‘internal real exchange rates’ in the euro area will most likely come through a rise in prices in Germany (and a few other stronger countries). The lessons learned in the early 1930s have made a come-back of deflation quite unlikely.

Gascoigne's "ghost" : a novel /

Mode of access: Internet.

The dispensation of the Spirit : being readings on the person and work of the Holy Ghost in relation to the world, the church, and the individual /

'Published under the direction of the Tract Committee'.

Sir Rohan's ghost. A romance.

Published anonymously.

Reynard the fox; or, The Ghost Heath run,

Poem.

The haunted man and the ghost's bargain : a fancy for Christmas-time.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Ghost /

"Edic̦ão crítica de Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa."

Greenes ghost havnting conie-catchers / Wherein is set down, the arte of humouring. The arte of carrying stones. Will. St. lift. Ia. Fost. law. Ned Bro. catch. and Blacke Robins kindnesse. With the conceits of Doctor Pinch-backe a notable makeshift. Ten times more pleasant then anything yet published of this matter ... London, Printed for R. Iackson and I. North, 1602.

Mode of access: Internet.

Sonnets of Shakespeare's ghost;

Head-pieces.

Wild life on the plains and horrors of Indian warfare : By a corps of competent authors and artists. Being a complete history of Indian life, warfare and adventure in America. Making specially prominent the late Indain war, with full descriptions of the Messiah craze, ghost dance, life of Sitting Bull ...

A reprint, with additional chapters, of Custer's "My life on the plains."

The naiad; a ghost story.

Mode of access: Internet.

Lucy Hosmer, or, The guardian and ghost : a tale of avarice and crime defeated /

Lucy Hosmer, or, The guardian and ghost / D.P. Thompson -- Julia Grayson, or, The sailor in love / D.P. Thompson -- The old soldier's story.