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High migratory potential of fall armyworm in West Africa despite stable temperatures and widely available year‐round habitats

open access: yesInsect Science, EarlyView.
Despite the minimal annual temperature variation and the widespread distribution of potential year‐round habitats in Ghana, the migratory potential of the local fall armyworm remains strong and is indistinguishable from that of the fall armyworm in China, which undergo seasonal migration.
Fan‐Qi Gao   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural Definitions of Health Care: A Case Study of Burmese Refugees in Indianapolis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
As a result of ongoing civil war and civil unrest in the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar, every year, the United States accepts increasing numbers of refugees from Burma, of which there is a population of significance within the greater Indianapolis ...
White, Marielena
core   +1 more source

Cretaceous lacewing larvae with binocular vision demonstrate the convergent evolution of sophisticated simple eyes

open access: yesInsect Science, EarlyView.
We report three ca. 100 million‐year‐old lacewing larvae with extraordinarily large stemmata. One of them additionally has a very wide head, which represents a previously unknown morphology. The arrangement of the stemmata indicates stereoscopic vision in these predatory larvae.
Carolin Haug   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contested Regimes, Aid Flows, and Refugee Flows: The Case of Burma Umkämpfte Regime, Hilfsgelder und Flüchtlingsströme: Der Fall Burma

open access: yesJournal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2009
There is a substantial literature that critiques the role that international aid plays in lending support to oppressive and contested regimes. But few investigators have asked the inverse question: what happens when aid is withdrawn? Following government
Susan Banki
doaj  

Corruption, economic globalisation, and resistance: Insights from the Philippine rice industry

open access: yesGeographical Research, EarlyView.
Key Insights: This article shows how competing perspectives on corruption were deployed ideologically in debates about deregulating the Philippine rice industry and resulted in a policy that benefits some groups, such as consumers, at the expense of others, particularly small‐scale farmers. Abstract Scholars have shown that narratives of corruption can
Grant W. Walton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Migration, Human Supply Chains, and the Multinational Enterprise: Confronting an Overlooked Global Mobility Challenge

open access: yesHuman Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past 2 decades, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have significantly increased their reliance on migrant workers in lower‐skilled jobs within global supply chains (GSCs)—a phenomenon largely overlooked in global mobility scholarship.
Milda Žilinskaitė   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Income Groups of Countries: An Approach of Management Information Systems via Networked Readiness Index [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The main aim of this study is to utilize discriminant analysis to explain the relationship between the income groups, which was determined by the World Bank for 148 countries, and the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) values calculated for the same 148 ...
Burma, Zehra Alakoç
core   +1 more source

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