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Unveiling the Taxonomic Diversity and Unprecedented Biosynthetic Treasure of the Phylum Myxococcota

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Natural products remain vital sources of therapeutics, and the phylum Myxococcota constitutes an especially rich reservoir for them. Based on decades of microbiological efforts, we present 154 new Myxococcota genomes and revise taxonomy quadrupling the number of families and genera.
Amay Ajaykumar Agrawal, Ronald Garcia, Guangyi Chen, Chantal D. Bader, Peter Sullivan, Alexander Popoff, Daniel Krug, Maja Hunter, Sebastian Walesch, Emilia Oueis, Christine Frank, Haowen Zhao, Joachim J. Hug, Sebastian Keller, Pascal Hirsch, Azat Tagirdzhanov, Tatiana Malygina, Mary Victory E. Gutierrez, Alexey Gurevich, Judith Boldt, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann, Ulrich Nübel, Andreas Keller, Olga V. Kalinina, Rolf Müller   +25 more
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Civil society organizations and COVID-19 in Limpopo province, South Africa: assessment of impacts and coping strategies

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
The measures instituted by national governments to abate the proliferation of COVID-19 had immediate and dramatic ramifications on most sectors and socio-economic players of the society, including the civil society organizations (CSOs).
Lazarus Chapungu, Godwell Nhamo, Malebajoa Anicia Maoela   +2 more
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
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Farmers' Preferences for Gene Editing Crops and Influencing Factors

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gene editing (GE) is gaining momentum worldwide, but limited data on UK farmers' preferences hinders our understanding of its potential impact amid deregulation debates. Based on a survey of 200 English arable farmers, we employ a Latent Class Analysis and Multinomial Logit regressions to investigate current preferences for GE crops.
Bertolozzi‐Caredio Daniele, Vigani Mauro   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Challenging Climate Strikers' Youthfulness: The Evolution of the Generational Gap in Environmental Attitudes Since 1999

Frontiers in Political Science, 2021
In 2019, youth took to the street to express their fears and ambitions in relation to climate change. Alongside, many adult and senior citizens expressed their solidarity.
Jasmine Lorenzini, Gian-Andrea Monsch, Jan Rosset   +2 more
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Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone, Craig W. Carpenter, Courtney Bir, Andrew J. Van Leuven, Rebecca Wasserman‐Olin, Wendong Zhang   +5 more
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Climate and conservation challenges facing Marakele National Park and their implications for tourism

Cogent Social Sciences, 2023
Due to climate change’s effects, protected areas, particularly national parks, face conservation challenges, negatively impacting tourism. Sustainable tourism requires understanding the climate and conservation challenges in national parks and their ...
Kaitano Dube, David Chikodzi, Godwell Nhamo, Lazarus Chapungu   +3 more
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Environmental Change and Migration: Governmental Compensation Policies to Natural Disasters Victims and Urbanization Process: A Case Study of Wildfires in Russian Federation in 2010 [PDF]

, 2011
Bobylev N. Environmental Change and Migration: Governmental Compensation Policies to Natural Disasters Victims and Urbanization Process: A Case Study of Wildfires in Russian Federation in 2010. COMCAD Arbeitspapiere - Working Papers, 100.
Bobylev, Nikolai
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Constructing and Validating New County‐Level Cultural Capital Indices for Applied Policy Analysis: Evidence From SNAP Take‐Up

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Cultural capital influences a wide range of social and economic outcomes, yet quantitative measures suitable for policy analysis remain limited. We develop county‐level cultural capital indices for the US based on Bourdieu's framework of objectified, embodied, and institutionalized cultural capital.
Pratyoosh Kashyap, Becca B. R. Jablonski, John Bovay   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of English in Global Citizenship [PDF]

, 2020
Despite a number of scholars attempting to define and conceptualise global citizenship, the literature tends to ignore the role of English as the global lingua franca.
Cavanagh, Claire
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