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Engaging the public in plant science: Communication facilitators and barriers of scaling up a citizen science campaign

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Volunteers have been involved in nature observations for decades through citizen science initiatives, providing large data sets as well as problem identification that allow a more complete understanding of many natural phenomena. Although communication is a core component in citizen science, the key factors that determine its effectiveness in ...
Kristiina Gibson   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Caste Based Discrimination on Dalits Residing in India- A Critical Review

open access: yesShodh Sari
Caste is not confined with values and ideas alone in this present world. It showcases the behavioral attitudes of the people towards it. Caste system is conceived as a purposive rationality.
Rimli Rajan
doaj   +1 more source

Mortality in an invasive ant does not scale linearly with fipronil exposure

open access: yesPest Management Science, EarlyView.
Increasing fipronil concentration did not linearly increase yellow crazy ant mortality when introduced via horizontal transfer; high doses may limit food sharing. Queen mortality was low, and surviving workers were averse to feeding. Abstract Background Controlling eusocial invasive and other pestiferous insects is difficult.
Peter Yeeles, Angela Strain, Lori Lach
wiley   +1 more source

An Integrated Approach to Caste in Sri Lanka

open access: yesCaste
In this article I argue that Sri Lankan caste research has been inhibited by the widespread popular assumption that caste manifests in Sri Lanka in the form of parallel and incommensurate ethnoreligious caste systems.
Dominic Esler
doaj   +1 more source

We ought to discuss the social construction of cadavers: Here's why and how

open access: yes
Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Fatima Ehsan, Susan Lamb
wiley   +1 more source

The European honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus) as an ally for the control of the invasive yellow‐legged hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax)

open access: yesPest Management Science, Volume 81, Issue 4, Page 2237-2247, April 2025.
The predatory effect of the honey‐buzzard affects the reproductive performance of Asian‐hornet colonies, decreasing the density of workers over distance and time. The foraging distances of the honey‐buzzard concentrates within the first 2000 m from nest, which supports the results observed.
Jorge Ángel Martín‐Ávila   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Teachers have in-group Bias about Student Caste and Socioeconomic Status in India?

open access: yesCaste
This article studies the extent of teacher’s in-group bias in occupational expectations and grading on the basis of a student’s caste and socioeconomic status.
Shradha Parashari
doaj   +1 more source

Exclusion and Exposure: How Social Inequality and Marginalization Shape Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation in Rural Communities

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change affects all individuals, regardless of wealth, social class, or religious background, though its impacts and adaptation strategies vary. While existing literature examines climate change adaptation based on farming categories, geographic regions, and cropping systems, limited research explores how social class shapes adaptation ...
Nasir Abbas Khan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Caste discrimination, international human rights, and Hinduism

open access: yesLeiden Journal of International Law
Since 1996, international human rights law (IHRL) has attempted to address caste-based discrimination through the rubric of racial discrimination by reading caste into ‘descent’ under Article 1(1) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Rishabh Bajoria
doaj   +1 more source

Reproducing Elite Lives: Women in Aggarwal Family Businesses

open access: yesSouth Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2017
This article explores the social reproductive roles performed by elite “upper”-caste Aggarwal women in family businesses in Delhi. With the substantialization of caste, there is an increase in heterogeneities within caste groups.
Ujithra Ponniah
doaj   +1 more source

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