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A True Bug with a True but Unique Chela in 100 Million-Year-Old Amber

Insects
Grasping appendages in representatives of the group Insecta are usually of the sub-chelate (jackknifing) type. Only rarely do chelate appendages occur: Carcinothrips (Thysanoptera), Dryinidae (Hymenoptera), and Carcinocorini (Heteroptera).
Carolin Haug, Fenja I. Haug, Marie K. Hörnig, Florian Braig, Joachim T. Haug   +4 more
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Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
wiley   +1 more source

Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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Description of fossil amber with ant syninclusions

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
IntroductionThe close relationships and interactions between multiple species can have important impacts on ecosystems. Fossil amber syninclusions (when multiple organisms are preserved together within the same fossil amber piece) sometimes preserves ...
José de la Fuente, José de la Fuente, Agustín Estrada-Peña   +2 more
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Doing Business in Zones of Legal Risk: Patterns of Corporate Involvement in Atrocity Crimes Since World War II

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Involvement of corporations in international crimes and conflict atrocities, such as crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, are neither isolated events nor uncommon. Importantly, corporate involvement in atrocity crimes is shaped by conditions in “zones of legal risk” (International Commission of Jurists), where gross human rights ...
Susanne Karstedt, Wim Huisman, Annika van Baar, Rebecca Endtricht, Lorena Rivas   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography, 2019 [PDF]

This is a supplement to Ross (2019) covering all taxa described or recorded in Burmese amber during 2019, plus a few earlier records that were missed previously.
Ross, Andrew J
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Sex differences in dynamic cerebral autoregulation responses to resistance and endurance training in humans

Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Exercise maintains brain health and reduces the risk of cerebrovascular diseases, such as stroke and dementia. The benefits of different ‘modalities’ of exercise on male and female cerebral autoregulation are unclear. In this study, we compared adaptations in dynamic cerebral autoregulation (dCA) during spontaneous and forced oscillations in ...
Hannah J. Thomas, Channa E. Marsh, Leanne Lester, Louise H. Naylor, Kurt J. Smith, Daniel J. Green   +5 more
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Two new genera and species of Elcaninae (Orthoptera, Elcanidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber [PDF]

Journal of Orthoptera Research
Two new genera of Elcanidae Handlirsch, 1906 are described from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Adelphellca simplicissima gen. et sp. nov. is based on a well-preserved forewing and metathoracic leg with leaf-like metatibial spurs.
Ole-Kristian Odin Schall, Ulrich Kotthoff, Martin Husemann   +2 more
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New genus and species oI Calisiinae Irom Cretaceous Burmese Amber (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Aradidae) [PDF]

, 2019
Heiss (2019): New genus and species oI Calisiinae Irom Cretaceous Burmese Amber (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Aradidae).
Heiss
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Spectral and chemical characterization of amber from Xixia, Henan Province, China via FTIR, three-dimensional fluorescence spectra and Py (HMDS)-GC-MS

Heliyon
Xixia amber from Henan Province in China has undergone a thorough examination utilizing microscopic observation, infrared spectroscopy, and three-dimensional (3D) fluorescence spectroscopy.
Yan Li, Yilei Feng, Jingfen Du, Yamei Wang, Guanghai Shi, Youzhi Liang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source