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Evaluating the influence of anthropogenic hillslope modulation in relation to shallow landslides in the Rishikhola region, Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya, India. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Sarkar S, Saha K.
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Who Bears the Pen? Audit Partner–Manager Report Signatures, Multilevel Accountability and Audit Quality in China

International Journal of Auditing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using data pertaining to China's mandatory two‐signature regime, under which a certified public accountant licensed as an audit manager can serve as an audit report signatory, we examine whether reallocating accountability within the audit engagement team is associated with audit quality.
Yanming Cao, Jengfang Chen, Meiting Lu, Grant Richardson   +3 more
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Spatial preferences and characteristics of physical activity areas among senior citizens in urban community parks of Nanchang, China. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Hu J, Liu J, Liu G, Zhou Y, Yu B, Hu Q, Lee KE, Zhang L.   +7 more
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Entangled Foodways and Livelihood Pathways: Cinnamon, State Interventions, and Everyday Life in Hmong Communities of Northern Vietnam

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agroecological practices of ethnic minority farmers in Vietnam's northern uplands are being reshaped by intersecting pressures of land‐use reform, market integration, and state‐backed crop promotion. Among Hmong communities in the south of Lào Cai Province (former Yên Bái Province) cinnamon was once valued primarily for its medicinal ...
Mélie Monnerat, Sarah Turner
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Developmental plasticity under human management shaped cereal evolution prior to domestication in the Early Holocene southern Levant. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Whitlam J, Flohr P, Bogaard A, Charles M, Finlayson B, Makarewicz CA.   +5 more
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From Social Justice to Indigenous Peoples' Rights: Continuities and (Re)framings in Ejido Property Claims in Yucatán, Mexico

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how long‐standing local conflicts concerning the nature of common property, the distribution of access and administrative rights associated with it, and more broadly the nature of the community and the forms of citizenship that organise its governance shape demands for justice regarding land transfers to outside investors
Eric Léonard, Kelly Redouté, María Gabriela Durán Valis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation on Fusarium crown rot resistance and agronomic traits of wheat near-isogenic lines. [PDF]

BMC Plant Biol
Yang S, Yang B, Wang D, Ma X, Xing L, Wang H, Zhang H, Hao S, Yu W, Lyu K, Wan X, Luo J, Fang Z, Shao J, Yuan J, Sun G.   +15 more
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Basis risk, social comparison, perceptions of fairness, and demand for insurance: A field experiment in Ethiopia

Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.
Abstract Index insurance lowers agricultural risk but covers only covariate risks. Since farmers do not have complete insurance, they may develop mistrust of insurance when experiencing crop losses and not receiving payouts. Although recent innovations in remote sensing enable the provision of more complete insurance including coverage for ...
Berber Kramer, Maria Porter, Solomon B. Wassie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sample purification and characterization of the α- and β-crustacyanin pigments from the American lobster for crystallographic and cryo-EM studies. [PDF]

Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun
Cedri MC, Bansia H, Amici A, Collet T, Moretti P, McCarthy AA, Mueller-Dieckmann C, Raffaelli N, Wang T, des Georges A, Cianci M.   +10 more
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“Why can't they put us to sleep if we are suffering?”: La Nada and the desire for euthanasia among institutionalized older adults in Peru

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I examine how institutionalized older adults in Peru articulate suffering through the idiom of la nada—“nothingness”—and how this shapes desires for euthanasia. Moving from close ethnography of bodies in space and time to structural and ethical discourses on euthanasia, I argue that calls for euthanasia arise not only from ...
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
wiley   +1 more source