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With a Great Story Comes Great Responsibility: Role of Narrative in Leadership Development

New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 81-87, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT Comic books reside uniquely within American culture. Historians have contended comics are more than just sequential artwork mixed with engaging stories, but rather, a framework by which the generations make sense of who they are. These stories are a reflection of cultural conscience; a lens through which we can view the world and a mirror ...
Sean Connable
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Agricultural intensification shapes community composition and parasite prevalence of native but not introduced bumble bees

Basic and Applied Ecology
Bumble bees are important pollinators of crops and native plants, yet face widespread declines linked to agricultural intensification and parasite pressure.
Jenna B. Melanson, Tyler T. Kelly, Susan Waters, Claire Kremen, Lauren C. Ponisio   +4 more
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What currency do bumble bees maximize? [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2010
In modelling bumble bee foraging, net rate of energetic intake has been suggested as the appropriate currency. The foraging behaviour of honey bees is better predicted by using efficiency, the ratio of energetic gain to expenditure, as the currency.
Nicholas L Charlton, Alasdair I Houston
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Foraging energetics reveals late‐summer challenges for pollinators across two British cities

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Foraging bees often work within fine energetic margins, but recent work has shown that foraging conditions can vary markedly across the year. Despite the importance of seasonality for pollinator foraging, most work in this area has relied on indirect approaches. However,
Ciaran Harris, Francis L. W. Ratnieks, Nicholas J. Balfour   +2 more
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Colonies of Bumble Bees (Bombus impatiens) Produce Fewer Workers, Less Bee Biomass, and Have Smaller Mother Queens Following Fungicide Exposure

Insects, 2015
Bees provide vital pollination services to the majority of flowering plants in both natural and agricultural systems. Unfortunately, both native and managed bee populations are experiencing declines, threatening the persistence of these plants and crops.
Olivia M. Bernauer, Hannah R. Gaines-Day, Shawn A. Steffan   +2 more
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Linking bacterial diversity to floral identity in the bumble bee pollen basket

Environmental DNA, 2021
Multitrophic interactions are ubiquitous in nature and form the basis of biodiversity. For example, bumble bees visit flowers to collect pollen, on which a variety of bacteria exist.
Nicholas Sookhan, Antonio Lorenzo, Shinichi Tatsumi, Mandy Yuen, J. Scott MacIvor   +4 more
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The 2024 General Election and the Rise of Reform UK

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 91-101, January/March 2025.
Abstract This article examines the social base of support for Reform UK. Did Nigel Farage's new party depend on the same types of ‘left behind’ voters who had previously backed UKIP? Do the results of the 2024 election suggest a hardening of the social divides that underpinned the rise of UKIP? Or has Britain's Eurosceptic and anti‐immigration movement
Oliver Heath, Christopher Prosser, Humphrey Southall, Paula Aucott   +3 more
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Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea: An Eco-feast Plant for Bumble Bee Conservation in the Northwestern Himalayas

Sociobiology
Bumble bees (Bombus spp.) are key pollinators in Himalayan ecosystem, but habitat degradation and floral resource scarcity threaten their population. Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, an introduced plant with deep corolla, is an important source of pollen ...
Ankita Guleria, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Mudasir Gani, Neeraj Sharma, Kamlesh Bali   +4 more
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Values versus Tactics: The Liberal Democrat Predicament

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The Liberal Democrats emerged from the 2024 election with their largest parliamentary party since 1923. The 2026 elections saw further progress in English local government and Scottish parliamentary elections, with support consolidating in areas of strength.
David Howarth
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Analysis of Pollination Services Provided by Wild and Managed Bees (Apoidea) in Wild Blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium Aiton) Production in Maine, USA, with a Literature Review

Agronomy, 2020
Maine is the largest producer of wild blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium Aiton) in the United States. Pollination comes from combinations of honey bees (Apis mellifera (L.)), commercial bumble bees (Bombus impatiens Cresson), and wild bees.
Sara L. Bushmann, Francis A. Drummond
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