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Colour reverse learning and animal personalities: the advantage of behavioural diversity assessed with agent-based simulations [PDF]
, 2012 Foraging bees use colour cues to help identify rewarding from unrewarding flowers, but as conditions change, bees may require behavioural flexibility to reverse their learnt preferences.
Marcello G. P. Rosa +3 more
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Foraging behaviour and pollination contribution of naturally occurring bumble bees in red clover
Basic and Applied EcologyPollinators optimise their foraging behaviours in response to changes in floral rewards, which may consequently affect pollen transfer and plant reproductive success, especially in plants that require cross-pollination.
Shuxuan Jing, Per Kryger, Birte Boelt
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The uncomfortable science in the womb: How biological experience disrupts surrogacy narratives
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The discourse surrounding surrogacy portrays pregnancy as a temporary process, depicting surrogates as neutral “carriers” whose involvement concludes at birth. This narrative minimizes gestation's biological significance despite evidence of its lasting effects on both women and children.
Orit Chorowicz Bar‐Am +2 more
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Floral Use Competition Between Honey Bees and Bumble Bees Within an Urban Community [PDF]
The global increase in the number of managed honey bees (Apis mellifera) has raised concerns about their impact on native pollinator species, including bumble bees (Bombus spp.).
Kerekes, Taylor +3 more
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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Washington bumble bees in home yards and gardens [PDF]
, 2017 Bumble bees, with their robust bodies, colorful bands of “fur” and audible “buzz” while in flight are the most well recognized of the native bees in Washington State.
Glass, Jenny R. +2 more
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The Analogia Entis for Reformed Theology: Retrieving Calvin's Implicit Metaphysics
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The famous controversy between Emil Brunner and Karl Barth which led to Barth's ‘No!’ was driven by disagreements over how to read John Calvin: Barth and Brunner never agreed on whether Calvin had a doctrine of the analogy of being. This article rekindles the debate.
Silvianne Aspray
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, 1994 The behaviour of honey bees and bumble bees while foraging on cultivated cranberry in southeastern Massachusetts was studied. Bumble bees were much more consistent foragers than are honey bees.
K.E. MacKenzie
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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
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