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Moderate thinning enhances soil water and its temporal stability in Chinese pine plantations on the semi-arid Loess Plateau of China. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci
Zhang Q, Zhang Y, Cao J, Li Z, Chen S, Wei W, Li Z.   +6 more
europepmc   +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

Genome-Wide Identification of the R2R3-MYB Gene Family Members in Masson Pine and the Regulation of Secondary Cell Wall Formation and Lignin Biosynthesis by <i>PmMYB289</i>. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Li Q, Song Y, Yao S, Hu Y, Sun L, Ji K.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
wiley   +1 more source

Scots pine seedlings of lowland and upland ecotypes respond differently to drought detected by needle functional traits and spectral reflectance. [PDF]

BMC Plant Biol
Štěpánová K, Lhotáková Z, Neuwirthová E, Kupková L, Červená L, Raasch F, Potůčková M, Stejskal J, Čepl J, Campbell P, Lstibůrek M, Albrechtová J.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Pine Bark as a Lignocellulosic Resource for Polyurethane Production: An Evaluation. [PDF]

Polymers (Basel)
Arshanitsa A, Pals M, Vjalikova A, Vevere L, Bikovens O, Jashina L.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley   +1 more source