Environmental Quality Management, Volume 35, Issue 3, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT Aloe vera (AV) gel has emerged as a multifunctional ingredient for edible films and coatings amid global efforts to improve food security, reduce plastic waste, and limit postharvest losses. This review summarizes current knowledge on the extraction, composition, and application of Aloe vera gel in biopolymer‐based systems for food ...
Cesar Vinicius Toniciolli Rigueto +8 more
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Meckel's Diverticulum as the Lead Point of Ileo-ileal Intussusception in a Young Adult: A Case Report. [PDF]
CureusVergara Torrente JA +3 more
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The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Abstract For decades, agro‐industrial capital has adopted cascading chemical and biotechnical interventions, or fixes, to secure accumulation through the cultivation of monocrops. We develop a framework that centres on how monocrop‐induced susceptibility to pests and pathogens—and the patchwork of fixes to address these—produces uneven chemical ...
Soledad Castro‐Vargas, Marion Werner
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Pests for Dinner: Dietary Composition of Insectivorous Bats in a Fragmented Tropical Dry Forest
Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Insectivorous bats are key predators of a wide array of arthropods, including species that act as disease vectors and pests, yet such ecological roles remain poorly studied in tropical regions. In this study, we aimed to describe the diet of five insectivorous bat species from the genera Balantiopteryx, Myotis, Mormoops, and Pteronotus inhabiting a ...
Mónica Izquierdo‐Suzán +4 more
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Fulminant Influenza B Myocarditis in an Adolescent Requiring Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (VA-ECMO): Complete Recovery at a Pediatric Cardiac Referral Center in Mexico. [PDF]
CureusGilles-Herrera C +8 more
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Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Tent‐roosting bats in the Lacandon Forest, Mexico, play a previously undocumented role in dispersing large seeds (> 5 mm) from mature forest species with important ecological and human uses. Sampling 21 feeding tents across two protected areas yielded 2137 seeds from 54 species, with seed deposition rates significantly higher under bat tents than in ...
Francisco Perera Rieder +2 more
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Hutchinson's Sign without Melanonychia: A Key for the Diagnosis of Invasive Melanoma of the Nail Matrix. [PDF]
Dermatol Pract ConceptJaramillo-Arboleda A +5 more
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Unraveling the Phenology of the Liana Marcgravia longifolia: Temporal Patterns and Climatic Cues
Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.We monitored the reproductive phenology of the Amazonian liana Marcgravia longifolia J. F. Macbr (Marcgraviaceae) for 84 consecutive months in the Peruvian Amazon to quantify the timing, synchrony, and seasonality of flowering and ripe fruiting. Flower presence peaked in August with intermediate synchrony, while ripe fruit presence peaked in November ...
Alessandro Mainardi +5 more
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Impact of an Interactive, Case-Based Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Curriculum on General Pediatric Resident Competency and Knowledge Retention. [PDF]
MedEdPORTALEslami K +6 more
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Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT Music and language are both hierarchically structured: syllables combine into words, and meters are groupings of musical beats. Statistical learning (SL) supports speech segmentation through computation of transitional probabilities between syllables, and individual differences in SL ability were found predictive of further language ...
Iris van der Wulp +2 more
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