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The impacts of biological invasions

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock, Teun Everts, Neil Angelo S. Abreo, Jamie Bojko, Victor Deklerck, James W. E. Dickey, Ana Clara S. Franco, Emili García‐Berthou, Stelios Katsanevakis, Natalia I. Kirichenko, Stefano Mammola, Martin A. Nuñez, Ben Parker, Riccardo Scalera, Ismael Soto, Diederik Strubbe, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Lorenzo Vilizzi, Tim Adriaens, Paride Balzani, Dagmara Błońska, Elizabeta Briski, Rein Brys, Amy L. Burgess, James E. Byers, Carlos Cano‐Barbacil, Giuseppe Castaldelli, Jaimie T.A. Dick, Victoria Dominguez Almela, Romina D. Dimarco, Margarita Florencio, Antonín Kouba, Melina Kourantidou, Irmak Kurtul, Irene Martín‐Forés, Olivier Morissette, Julian D. Olden, Bruno E. Soares, Jakub Truszkowski, Hugo Verreycken, Marc Kenis, Ronaldo Sousa, J. Robert Britton   +42 more
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Can the Geo Speak? The Emergence of Southeast Asia Through Geological Assemblages

Engaging Science, Technology, and Society
The engagement delves into the relationship between the emergence of economic geology as a modern science, geological materials, and their entanglements with Southeast Asia as an area. It asks if the geo can speak by foregrounding the role of geological
Fathun Karib, Dana Listiana
doaj   +1 more source

All Bark and No Bite: India at Tate Britain’s ‘Artist and Empire’ Exhibition [PDF]

, 2016
This exhibition review focuses on how India has been represented in the Exhibition 'Artist and empire: Facing Britain's Past' at Tate Britain (25 November 2015 – 10 April 2016) and explores this question in relation to questions of British art and ...
Dohmen, Renate
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Early evolutionary history of the seed

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The seed is an essential stage in the life history of gymnospermous and angiospermous plants, facilitating both their survival and dispersal. We reappraise knowledge of the evolutionary history of the gymnospermous seed, from its origin in the late Devonian through to the well‐known end‐Permian extinctions – an interval encompassing the ...
Richard M. Bateman, Alan R. T. Spencer, Jason Hilton   +2 more
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Mapping Orientalism: Representations and Pedagogies [PDF]

, 2006
In order to understand Orientalism it is necessary to realize, as Vincent T. Harlow has noted, that there were “two British empires.” The first empire consisted of the colonies in America and the West Indies and was established in the seventeenth century,
Cass, Jeffrey, Hoeveler, Diane
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Framing Modern Slavery: Do Stakeholders Talk Past Each Other?

Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern slavery literature has thus far mostly adopted a downstream perspective, in the sense that researchers investigated corporate actors' responses after the enactment of transparency legislation. The common finding is that corporate disclosure is poor and ineffective, contributing to a failure to eradicate modern slavery.
Sylvain Durocher, Darlene Himick, Leigh Ellen Walsh   +2 more
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Memory and history of the Great(er) War and India: from a national-imperial to a more global perspective

E-REA, 2017
This essay explores memorial and historiographical aspects of British India in World War One. In India today there is little interest in either commemorating or researching the topic.
Thierry DI COSTANZO
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National Identity Meaning and Attitudes Toward War, Peace, and the Future of Ukraine

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The link between attitudes and social identity is complex, influencing perceptions, motivations, and actions. Social psychological research mainly focused on the role of attitude in identity formation, particularly in the contexts of social movements and collective action.
Karina V. Korostelina, Ksenia Bakhtiarova, A. Zakharchenko, O. Rohalov, V. Molotsiian, O. Zakharchenko, M. Fursenko   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nervous System Architecture: Staff College Graduates and the Formation of Regular, Territorial Force, New Army, and Dominion Divisions, 1914-1916 [PDF]

, 2019
The historiography of the First World War lacks an assessment of the role that trained staff officers had during the expansion of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) between 1914 and 1918.
Hogan, Brendan
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Exploring university student perspectives of a challenge‐based curriculum

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The world faces multiple global and local challenges, with some describing one challenge, climate breakdown, as an existential threat. Publications in this journal have highlighted the importance of curricula that help students better understand and address these challenges.
Miles Thompson, Alpesh Maisuria, Shona McCartney, Rhianna Hamilton   +3 more
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