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Artisans, Athletes, Entrepreneurs, and Other Skilled Exemplars of the Way [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
We introduce management and spirituality scholars to the “knack” passages from the c. 4th century B.C.E. text, the Zhuangzi. The knack passages are parables about low status figures, such as wheelwrights, furniture makers and cooks, whose actions offer ...
Konz, S.J., Gregory N.P.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Listening to the forest and its curators: lessons learnt from a bioacoustic smartphone application deployment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Our natural environment is complex and sensitive, and is home to a number of species on the verge of extinction. Surveying is one approach to their preservation, and can be supported by technology. This paper presents the deployment of a smartphone-based
Chamberlain, Alan   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Can we repudiate ontology altogether?

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
Abstract Ontological nihilists repudiate ontology altogether, maintaining that ontological structure is an unnecessary addition to our theorizing. Recent defenses of the view involve a sophisticated combination of highly expressive but ontologically innocent languages combined with a metaphysics of features—non‐objectual, complete but modifiable states
Christopher J. Masterman
wiley   +1 more source

Four new species of cicadas in the Yoyetta abdominalis (Distant) species group (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae) from southeastern Australia

open access: yesRecords of the Australian Museum, 2020
Four new species are added to the Yoyetta abdominalis (Distant) species group: Y. douglasi sp. nov., Y. enigmatica sp. nov., Y. loftyensis sp. nov. and Y. ngarabal sp. nov.
Lindsay W. Popple, David L. Emery
doaj   +1 more source

Amphibia, Anura, Leiuperidae, Physalaemus cicada Bokermann, 1966: first records for the state of Sergipe [PDF]

open access: yesCheck List, 2010
The genus Physalaemus is distributed from north to south in South America, east at Andes. Physalaemus cicada, belongs to the Physalaemus cuvieri group, is widely distributed and is usually found in the Caatinga calling in lentic and/or temporary water ...
Francis Caldas   +5 more
doaj   +3 more sources

The Periodical Cicada [PDF]

open access: yes, 1948
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Parks, T. H.
core  

Restoration tools and strategies for afforested Mediterranean coastal grasslands: is eucalypt removal alone enough to kickstart ecosystem recovery?

open access: yesRestoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Afforestation with non‐native trees has profoundly altered coastal dune grasslands worldwide, creating persistent ecological legacies that constrain ecosystem recovery. Objectives We evaluated the cost‐effectiveness of two restoration approaches, distinguished by their respective demands for resource investment: Moderately ...
Aviv Avisar, James Aronson, Tamar Dayan
wiley   +1 more source

‘Why Did You Go to Buda?’: The Humanist Sodality and Mantuan’s Rustic Idyll in Bohuslaus of Hassenstein’s Ecloga sive Idyllion Budae (1503)☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In the late fifteenth century, the Hungarian royal court at Buda was home to a cosmopolitan community of humanists. In early modern historiography, this cultural milieu has often been interpreted as one of the new, emergent ‘centres’ of the Renaissance in East Central Europe.
Eva Plesnik
wiley   +1 more source

Potential Trophic Competition Between the European Perch Perca fluviatilis and Pikeperch Sander lucioperca

open access: yesInternational Review of Hydrobiology, Volume 111, Issue 1, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The European perch Perca fluviatilis and pikeperch Sander lucioperca can co‐occur, potentially competing for food resources. However, few studies have addressed the potential feeding competition between these species. We used carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis to assess the potential trophic competition between these species in two ...
Mathieu Toutain   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tymbal Morphology and Co-ccurrence of \u3ci\u3eSpartina\u3c/i\u3e Sap-Feeding Insects (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The exoskeletal morphology of the structures associated with the production of substrate vibrations used for communication was examined for members of three guilds of sap-feeding insects on the cordgrasses Spartina alterniflora Loisel, S.
Wilson, Stephen W
core   +2 more sources

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