Results 91 to 100 of about 5,417 (233)

Fine‐scale spatial variation in eastern grey squirrel melanism across a complex urban landscape

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
By sampling 197 parks, the study demonstrates how natural geography creates divergence within cities. The findings reveal that the St. Lawrence River and its tributaries act as barriers, disrupting urban melanism clines in grey squirrels. Ultimately, the research indicates that natural features still dictate evolutionary rules in anthropogenic ...
Francis Quang‐Hai Dinh, Isabella C. Richmond, Andrew P. Hendry, Allison M. Roth   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

El propranolol revoluciona el tratamiento de los hemangiomas en la infancia

Medisan, 2013
Se comunica brevemente acerca del uso del propranolol como opción terapéutica para curar o paliar los hemangiomas en niños. Aunque el mecanismo por el cual actúa el fármaco en estos tumores benignos no es bien conocido, se piensa que pueda estar ...
Enrique Berdión Sevilla, Valia Hernández Viel   +1 more
doaj  

La “Potencia de No” como resistencia al Estado de Bien-estar Común: la Performance como herramienta para propiciar encuentros en los espacios públicos

Revista de Estudios Globales y Arte Contemporáneo, 2015
Lo que está en potencia no está en acto. Mientras algo permanezca en este estado, tendrá tanto potencia de sí acontecer como potencia de no hacerlo. Lo que resolverá que se pase de la potencia al acto será precisamente el deseo. ¿Pero cuál relación se establece entre desear y poder accionar este deseo en una sociedad donde la potencia de no se ...
openaire   +1 more source

125 years of exploration and research at Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK) 125 ans d'exploration et de recherches à Gough's Cave (Somerset, Royaume‐Uni)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello, Mark D. Lewis, Simon A. Parfitt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Amidst (waste) abundance: world‐making and struggles in hosting a municipal landfill in the Bolivian lowlands Au milieu de l'abondance (de déchets) : fabrication du monde et luttes liées à la gestion d'une décharge municipale dans les basses terres de Bolivie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
wiley   +1 more source

El hoarding desde una mirada psicoanalítica. Hoard: El tesoro escondido

Affectio Societatis, 2016
En este artículo se presenta una reflexión psicoanalítica sobre el trastorno de acumulación compulsiva (hoarding), con el fin de trazar algunas coordenadas teórico-conceptuales para pensar la causa y lo que pudiera estar en juego a nivel
Idamari Santiago-Castro
doaj  

The choice to submit: freedom, gender, and the figure of God in Pentecostal Nigeria Le choix de se soumettre : liberté, genre et figure divine chez les Pentecôtistes du Nigeria

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualizing moral migration: how disillusionment and the transnational right motivate migration to Russia Conceptualiser la migration morale : comment les désillusions et la droite transnationale motivent l’émigration vers la Russie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
wiley   +1 more source

Bien estar y calidad de vida en la población jubildad residente en la ciudad de Lisboa

, 2013
Se realizó un estudio comparativo con el objetivo de analizar el impacto, respectivamente, del ejercicio de una actividad, de los diferentes estados civiles, de la presencia / ausencia de una enfermedad y del nivel de educación, en el Bienestar Subjetivo (BES) y en la Calidad de Vida (CdV) de los jubilados y prejubilados de la ciudad de Lisboa.
openaire   +1 more source

Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
wiley   +1 more source