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Ticking the box: Does a decision support framework for management planning improve protected area management effectiveness?

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, Volume 8, Issue 5, May 2026.
Protected area (PA) management effectiveness assessment tools like the METT help conservation agencies demonstrate accountability but often oversimplify complex management realities, leading to METT indicator compliance rather than positive conservation outcomes. Applying a decision support framework like the Conservation Standards to 38 Cape Floristic
Natalie A. Hayward   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic materials and state capacity in Renaissance Italy: The economic policies of ‘Roman saltpetre’ procurement

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 757-780, May 2026.
Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
wiley   +1 more source

Trickery, Mockery and the Scottish Way of War [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
MacDonald, Alastair John
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 299-322, May 2026.
In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
wiley   +1 more source

The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 323-352, May 2026.
This article considers how the term ‘thegn’ was used in tenth‐ and eleventh‐century England. Although commonly thought to indicate members of a face‐to‐face service aristocracy with specific attributes, it has resisted close definition. Examination of references to anonymous thegns in administrative and legal texts suggests that the people meant were ...
Richard Purkiss
wiley   +1 more source

Plastid and nuclear phylogenomics of Cyphostemma (Vitaceae) provide new insights into genome size evolution across sub‐Saharan Africa

open access: yesJournal of Integrative Plant Biology, Volume 68, Issue 5, Page 1399-1420, May 2026.
Some African Cyphostemma species evolved much larger genomes as they adapted to dry, rocky habitats. These expansions are linked to succulent traits and specialization on nutrient‐rich limestone outcrops. The findings show how climate‐driven aridification shaped plant evolution and highlight broader genome‐environment patterns across flowering plants ...
Rindra M. Ranaivoson   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

CHIVALRIC ROMANCE – THE EMBODIMENT OF THE MEDIEVAL ETIQUETTE AND IDEAL

open access: yesInternational Humanitarian University Herald. Philology, 2022
openaire   +1 more source

Administrative Burden in Higher Education: Race, Criminal Records, and Street‐Level Bureaucrats in College Admissions

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, Volume 86, Issue 3, Page 662-674, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how administrative burden in college admissions affects individuals with criminal records, with attention to racial disparities. Grounded in administrative burden theory and the role of street‐level bureaucrats, it examines how admissions representatives respond to applicants with disclosed criminal histories. Through a
Victor J. St. John   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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