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Fostering refugees' entrepreneurial instincts: Lessons from the past, learning for the future

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The ongoing global crises have sparked academic discussions on immigration, recognizing it as a key factor in socio‐economic advancement. Immigration is viewed as an essential element of human capital, capable of addressing labor and skill shortages in developed nations.
Gagan Deep Sharma   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

New aphidoidea (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha) in burmese amber

open access: yes, 2005
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Poinar, George O., Jr., Brown, Alex E.
openaire   +1 more source

Mycophagous rove beetles highlight diverse mushrooms in the Cretaceous

open access: yesNature Communications, 2017
Agarics (gilled mushrooms) are rarely preserved as fossils, which has obscured their evolutionary history. Here, the authors describe new forms of agarics as well as new species of rove beetles with morphological specializations for mushroom feeding ...
Chenyang Cai   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma

open access: yesJournal 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

open access: yesOrbis 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
wiley   +1 more source

Doing Business in Zones of Legal Risk: Patterns of Corporate Involvement in Atrocity Crimes Since World War II

open access: yesRegulation &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   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discovery of the pincer wasp Thaumatodryininae (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae) in Burmese amber, with description of a new genus and the first phylogenetic analysis of the subfamily [PDF]

open access: yesArthropod Systematics & Phylogeny
Thaumatodryininae is a small subfamily of Dryinidae, known to attack nymphs of auchenorrhynchous Flatidae (Hemiptera). Only one genus is recognized, Thaumatodryinus Perkins, with 35 species including fossil and extant taxa.
André L. Martins, Gabriel A. R. Melo
doaj   +3 more sources

Introduction: Charting the Evolution of English and Anglophone Writing in Asia

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This introductory article explores the history of the English language and literatures in the Asian ‘Outer Circle’ countries, or English in its ‘second diaspora’, focusing primarily on literature from its beginnings to the present. Due to space limitations, the scope is further narrowed to poetry and the novel – the two genres that, arguably ...
Mohammad A. Quayum
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesInsects
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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sex differences in dynamic cerebral autoregulation responses to resistance and endurance training in humans

open access: yesExperimental 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   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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