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Population Growth Characteristics of Incipient Colonies of the Eastern Subterranean Termite, Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar) (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Sociobiology, 2014
Growth of Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar) incipient colonies during their first year was documented via a monthly destructive sampling census of 15 unique colonies, each headed by an inbred primary pair, for a total of 180 colonies.
Mark A. Janowiecki, Susan C. Jones, Joshua L. Bryant   +2 more
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Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
wiley   +1 more source

Mohan Lal : Activism against Caste in India and Canada

, 2021
This interview is part of the “Caste in Canada” oral history project. “Caste in Canada” comprises interviews with nineteen Canadians of Dalit background, documenting their histories, experiences, and understanding of the implications of caste in Canada ...
Lal, Mohan, Yengde, Suraj, Murphy, Anne (Historian)   +2 more
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MicroRNAs associated with caste determination and differentiation in a primitively eusocial insect [PDF]

, 2017
In eusocial Hymenoptera (ants, bees and wasps), queen and worker adult castes typically arise via environmental influences. A fundamental challenge is to understand how a single genome can thereby produce alternative phenotypes. A powerful approach is to
Moulton, Vincent, Tamas Dalmay, Irina Mohorianu, Mohorianu, Irina, Matthew Beckers, Vincent Moulton, Bourke, Andrew F. G., Collins, David H., Andrew F. G. Bourke, David H. Collins, Dalmay, Tamas, Beckers, Matthew   +11 more
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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

The Unusual Neotenic System of the Asian Dry Wood Termite, Neotermes koshunensis (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae)

Sociobiology, 2013
In most lower termites, colonies are headed by neotenic reproductives of both sexes after the primary reproductives (i.e., the queen and king) are lost.
Yasushi Miyaguni, Koji Sugio, Kazuki Tsuji   +2 more
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“What Roles for Women?”: Gendering the New International Economic Order at the UN Regional Economic Commission for Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1974 declaration of the New International Economic Order (NIEO), which came just ahead of the UN's International Women's Year (IWY) in 1975, attempted a major renegotiation of global inequality without reference to gender. Through the rest of the 1970s, women at the African Training and Research Centre for Women (ATRCW) in Addis Ababa ...
Elizabeth Banks
wiley   +1 more source

"Caste and Wealth Inequality in India" [PDF]

In this paper, we conduct the novel exercise of analyzing the relationship between overall wealth inequality and caste divisions in India using nationally representative surveys on household wealth conducted during 1991–92 and 2002–03.
Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Ajit Zacharias
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in Alternative Splicing in Apis Mellifera Bees Fed Apis Cerana Royal Jelly

Journal of Apicultural Science, 2014
The Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a social insect characterized by caste differentiation in which the queen bee and worker bees display marked differences in morphology, behavior, reproduction, and longevity despite their identical genomes.
Shi Yuan Yuan, Huang Zachary Y., Wu Xiao Bo, Wang Zi Long, Yan Wei Yu, Zeng Zhi Jiang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source