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Toxicon: X, 2022 Modern venomics is increasing its focus on hymenopterans such as honeybees, bumblebees, parasitoid wasps, ants and true wasps. However solitary bees remain understudied in comparison and the few available venom studies focus on short melittin-like ...
Björn M. von Reumont +2 more
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Spatial Vision and Visually Guided Behavior in Apidae
Insects, 2019 The family Apidae, which is amongst the largest bee families, are important pollinators globally and have been well studied for their visual adaptations and visually guided behaviors.
Almut Kelber, Hema Somanathan
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The Tasty Side of Numbers: How Vowel Type Influences Taste Perceptions for Numerical Brand Names
Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Numerical brand names are commonly used in food marketing yet underexplored for their sensory impact. Relying on processing fluency theory, across four studies, including an IAT (n = 149), a quantitative and qualitative lexical analysis of professional wine tasting notes (n = 695), an online study (n = 306), and archival consumer wine ratings (
Nathalie Spielmann, Diego Vega
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Enhancing outreach collections with live insects [PDF]
Natural History Collections and MuseomicsOutreach insect drawers serve as valuable educational tools, showcasing insect diversity and fostering curiosity. However, these static displays often fail to bridge the emotional gap between people and insects.
Natalie Herbison
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SOME CARPENTER-BEES FROM AFRICA
The Canadian Entomologist, 1906 I am indebted to Dr. F. Creighton Wellman for specimens of two little-known species of Xylocopiæ, collected by himself in Angola. Although they are not new species, they suggest a few observations.
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Oikos, EarlyView.An invasional meltdown can occur when a non‐native species facilitates the spread of another non‐native species in the invaded area, increasing its likelihood of survival or its ecological impact. Plant–pollinator systems pose an exceptional study system to test this concept, which remains poorly known.
Daniel Echeandía +9 more
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Toward a Sustainability Standard for Cultural Organizations: Borrowing From Tourism
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cultural organizations are increasingly engaging with sustainability, yet they lack a sector‐specific standard to guide and institutionalize efforts as long‐term strategies. This study reviews research papers on sustainability standards in the tourism sector, a field with greater experience with such tools, and horizontally borrows insights ...
Małgorzata Ćwikła, Leticia Labaronne
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Pollinators on Cowpea Vigna unguiculata: Implications for Intercropping to Enhance Biodiversity
Insects, 2021 Pollinators are on the decline and loss of flower resources play a major role. This raises concerns regarding production of insect-pollinated crops and therefore food security.
Beatrice N. Dingha +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability represents a complex issue in which scientific knowledge inevitably coexists with the subjective perception of humans in its turn influenced by civilization, cultural but also unconscious aspects. These results emerge with evidence from a critical analysis of the main definitions of sustainability delivered by credited entities (
Francesco Di Maria, Hamid Safarzadeh
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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