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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
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Help Protect Florida’s Natural Areas from Invasive Plants

EDIS, 2018
This document addresses the pressing issue of invasive plants in Florida's natural areas, threatening native habitats and biodiversity. With over half of Florida's land developed for agriculture or urban use, preserving remaining natural areas is ...
S.F. Enloe, K.A. Langeland
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Plantation of Brazilian pine to nuts production as a conservation tool

, 2012
The wood of Brazilian pine (Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.) O. Kuntze) had great economic importance in Brazil, mainly between 1930 to 1970. The deforestation caused a drastic reduction in population size of Brazilian pine and currently it integrates the list of Brazilian threatened species.
Danner, Moeses Andrigo, Zanette, Flávio, Ribeiro, Juliana Zanetti   +2 more
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Availability of a Keystone Plant Resource Reduces Niche Overlap and Drives Distinct Species‐Specific Changes in Niche Breadth Among Small Rodents

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We investigated how three rodent species respond to the seasonal availability of Araucaria angustifolia seeds. While Oligoryzomys spp. increased seed consumption and abundance during seed production, the more insectivorous Akodon paranaensis maintained a broader diet.
Adriana A. Perini, Emerson M. Vieira
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Controlled breathing and heart rate variability biofeedback for substance use‐related outcomes: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aim Substance use disorders (SUDs) contribute significantly to global social and economic burden. Breathing‐based interventions offer a low‐cost, scalable adjunct or alternative to traditional treatment, yet their effects on substance use‐related outcomes has not been systematically evaluated.
Ariel Dart Roxburgh, Bosco Rowland, Dan I. Lubman, Sukhjit Kaur Bains, May Anne Pek, Bernard Tso, Victoria Manning, Shalini Arunogiri   +7 more
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FROM BRAZILIAN-PINE FRUIT SHELL TO FUNCTIONAL BIOCHAR: SUSTAINABLE USE IN ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS [PDF]

Química Nova
Based on circular economy principles, sustainable biochar materials were produced from residues generated during the consumption of Brazilian-pine seeds (Araucaria angustifolia).
Carlos Alberto Ferreira dos Santos, Alessandra Bitobrovec, Adriano Gonçalves Viana, Vanessa Egéa dos Anjos   +3 more
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Frequency and Severity of Allergic Reactions to Non‐Mandatory Labelled Allergenic Foods—Data From Two Large European Cohorts

Allergy, EarlyView.
In two large European cohorts, 589 reactions to non‐mandatory labelled plant‐based foods were identified with sunflower seed, pine nut, pea and lentil as the most frequent triggers. Reaction severity was not different between mandatory and non‐mandatory labelled allergenic foods. Their frequency and rising trends (e.g., fenugreek, pumpkin seed) support
Sabine Dölle‐Bierke, Alejandro Gonzalo‐Fernández, Dominique Sabouraud‐Leclerc, Laura Barreales‐Tolosa, Barbara Ballmer‐Weber, Simona Belohlavkova, Maria B. Bilò, Ruta Dubakiene, Karin Hartmann, Monika Jedrzejczak‐Czechowicz, Thuy‐My Le, Lars Lange, Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos, Guillaume Pouessel, Isabel Reig, Athanasios Sinaniotis, E. N. Clare Mills, Margitta Worm, Montserrat Fernández‐Rivas   +18 more
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Monsters of finance

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract An anthropology of horror can serve as a vernacular critique of financial speculation. Drawing on fieldwork in San Pedro, Paraguay, I track horror across three registers: pombero tricksters; plata yvyguy (buried money) as a founding myth of postwar finance; and obligations binding sesame farmers to monsters, patrones, and creditors.
Caroline E. Schuster
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Review: Co‐occurring psychiatric disorders and symptomatology among children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders – an umbrella review with individual study meta‐analysis

Child and Adolescent Mental Health, EarlyView.
Background Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), intellectual disability (ID), and specific learning disorders (SLD), frequently co‐occur with psychiatric conditions (e.g. anxiety, depression).
Kathryn Fortnum, Noah Erskine, John Cairney, Matthew Y. W. Kwan, Matthew Bourke   +4 more
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