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The Nature of Caste Prejudice: A New Look at Prejudice, Social Identity, and Casteism in India

Caste
Most research on caste prejudice is rooted in personality and individual difference approaches. As a result, there has been limited understanding of caste prejudice as an aspect of group psychology shaped by peoples’ sense of group positions. Drawing on
Suryodaya Sharma, Yashpal Jogdand
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Should multinationals care about development? Rethinking global strategy in an unequal world

Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary While multinational corporations (MNCs) can profoundly shape global development trajectories, global strategy research has largely treated development as peripheral to core strategic concerns. This Perspective paper examines the contested relationship between global strategy and development, arguing that MNCs are neither ...
Marcus M. Larsen, Rajneesh Narula, Thomas DeBerge   +2 more
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Dignity's Dilemma: Categorical Objections to Autonomous Weapons and Their Pacifist Entailments

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Dignity objections to autonomous weapon systems are prominent in contemporary military ethics, yet their theoretical foundations remain underexamined. This article reconstructs those foundations, showing what categorical dignity objections require to function as absolute prohibitions.
Timothy Dubber
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On Swami Vivekananda and Caste Prejudice: Ethical Implications of the Experience of Non-Duality

Religions
The well-known modern Hindu reformer and pioneer of Vedānta in the West, Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902), based his ethical vision on mysticism: specifically, on the direct experience of non-duality and the ultimate unity and organic interconnectedness of ...
Jeffery D. Long
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Noncanonical Nucleotides in the Genome Around the Maternal‐Zygotic Transition

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, EarlyView.
In this paper, Kazzazi et al. provide a comprehensive review of the dynamics of nonconventional nucleotides in the genome during early developmental stages, hypothesizing a potential role for these nucleotides in the activation of the zygotic genome. ABSTRACT From the very moment of fertilization and throughout development, the cells of animal embryos ...
Latifa Kazzazy, Dávid Mező, Kinga K. Nagy, Viktória Perey‐Simon, Judit Tóth, Angéla Békési, Beáta Vértessy, Máté Varga   +7 more
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Corpses at fate’s crossroads: a tapestry of family honor and caste in Faleiro’s The Good Girls

Cogent Arts & Humanities
Women’s autonomy, rights as well as mobility are being governed by deeply entrenched system of rigid ideologies, especially in rural India. The socio-literary intersection of caste, patriarchy and honor is positioned at the epicenter of this paper, which
Sonali Das, Prachishri Mishra, Sthitaprajna, Mousumi Dash, Chitrita Prusty   +4 more
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Mortality in an invasive ant does not scale linearly with fipronil exposure

Pest 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
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The Debate on Meaning of Life in the Tamil Minor Epic Neelakesi: Drawing Some Inspirations to Engage the Gen Z in Religious Matters

Religions
There is a widespread interest in Gen Z today. From a religious perspective, Gen Z tend to, firstly, disaffiliate themselves from institutionalized religion, secondly, find it incompatible with reason, and thirdly, find it exclusivist.
Santhosh-Kumar Appu
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The European honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus) as an ally for the control of the invasive yellow‐legged hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax)

Pest 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, Luisa María Díaz‐Aranda, José Manuel Fernández‐Pereira, Salvador Rebollo   +3 more
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Does Economic Growth Drive Equitable Water and Sanitation Access? Assessing Inequality Reduction Across 64 Nations

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether economic growth reduces inequalities in access to water and sanitation across 64 countries over an average period of 13.5 years. Drawing on disaggregated data by income quintiles and rural–urban location, and employing ordinary least squares (OLS), two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and Seemingly Unrelated Regression
Marcos García‐López, Samara López‐Ruiz, Gabriela Cuadrado‐Quesada   +2 more
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