Results 91 to 100 of about 29,838 (168)
Exploring legal‐ and health‐risk messaging to reduce demand for elephant skin
Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 4, August 2026.Abstract Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) are poached for an illegal trade in their skins, which are used in traditional medicine in Africa and Asia. We explored whether messages about the legal and health risks of using elephant skin for medicinal purposes (stomach illness) could reduce such consumption.
Beilu Duan +10 more
wiley +1 more source
Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 4, August 2026.Abstract Ex situ plant collections may be increasingly needed to protect representative samples of threatened or rare species and provide plant material for conservation translocation. A primary problem in these ex situ collections is loss of intraspecific variation due to plant death. Different management actions would be required depending on whether
Rebecca Sucher +6 more
wiley +1 more source
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 2848-2864, August 2026.ABSTRACT This computational linguistic study analyzes 8743 Rednote posts to examine how sentiment, emotion, and content domain collectively shape social comparison dynamics on social media. We identify four key findings: (1) an emotional gradient, where upward comparison content exhibits the highest sentiment scores and downward comparison the lowest; (
Michelle Mingyue Gu +7 more
wiley +1 more source
Synthesizing Empirical Research on Learner Metacognition in Second Language Writing
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 2878-2889, August 2026.ABSTRACT Despite considerable research interest in learner metacognition in second language (L2) writing, there is not yet a review that synthesizes the existing empirical findings and discusses their implications. To fill the void, this systematic review synthesized 39 empirical studies on learner metacognition in L2 writing and examined their salient
Chen Li, Icy Lee, Zhicheng Mao
wiley +1 more source
New Phytologist, Volume 251, Issue 3, Page 1283-1293, August 2026.Polyphenol oxidases (PPOs) depletion preserves endogenous proteins at their predicted molecular weights and enhances detectable enzymatic activities. (a) Less RbcL crosslinking in ppo mutant of Nicotiana benthamiana. Leaf extracts were incubated for 1 h, separated on protein gels, stained with Coomassie or analyzed by Western blot with the anti‐RbcL ...
Kaijie Zheng +4 more
wiley +1 more source
Moving in Cycles: Explaining the Failure of Militarization to Address Illegal Mining in Ghana
Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.ABSTRACT Mining contributes to Ghana's economic growth but also imposes significant social costs—land dispossession and unemployment—which have fueled the rise of illegal mining (galamsey). Galamsey, which intensified during the commodity boom of the 2010s, provides livelihoods while simultaneously worsening environmental degradation and social ...
Sulemana Alhassan Saaka, Phil Faanu
wiley +1 more source
Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.ABSTRACT After 2013, the number of statewide minimum wage increases in the United States surged. However, not every state followed the trend. Some refrained from minimum wage legislation completely. This article examines the causes of differences in state minimum wage policies from 2013 to 2022, taking a qualitative perspective on minimum wage politics
Emanuel Schuller
wiley +1 more source
Channeling Action: How Civic Recreation Organizations Shape Civic Capacity and Engagement
Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.ABSTRACT In this paper, we examine the individual‐level and organizational‐level implications of participation in a particular type of civic association—a civic recreation organization. We deploy a small‐n comparison group design, comparing data within and across members of a civic recreation organization with varying degrees of involvement to ...
Emma Scheetz, David Carter
wiley +1 more source
四川大学学报. 自然科学版, 1988 本文研究了从蚕粪中提取和测定叶绿素的条件,并对叶绿素铜钠盐的测定条件进行了一些试验。实验结果表明:90.0％丙酮作提取剂或95.0％乙醇作提取剂效果最好;提取和测定时0.Ig蚕粪需加50mg左右碳酸镁或碳酸钙;测定叶绿素及其铜钠盐时必须避光.
张载杰, 洪正隆, 刘力
doaj
[Fetal ECG extraction using temporal convolutional encoder-decoder network]. [PDF]
Nan Fang Yi Ke Da Xue Xue Bao, 2022 Cao S +5 more
europepmc +1 more source