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Foraging plasticity and physiological adaptations enable hummingbirds to subsist on dilute nectars

Functional Ecology, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 1475-1490, May 2026.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Hummingbirds frequently feed on small volumes (<30 μL) of sucrose‐rich nectars. Climate change is expected to affect both the abundance and the concentrations of accumulated nectar.
Rosalee L. Elting, Anusha Shankar, Catherine H. Graham, Holger Beck, Alejandro Rico‐Guevara, Donald R. Powers   +5 more
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Competência crítica em informação e mediação cultural

Revista Informação na Sociedade Contemporânea
Os centros culturais são aliados na preservação e disseminação da informação para a transformação da coletividade por meio da realização da mediação cultural ocorrida por intermédio de ações culturais.
Barbara Lipinski, Luciane de Fátima Beckman Cavalcante   +1 more
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Beyond Political Control and Bureaucratic Protection: Public Appointments for the Formation of Programmatic Groups and Representative Bureaucracy

Review of Policy Research, Volume 43, Issue 3, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Public appointments shape the top‐level bureaucracy by serving as a gateway for professionals with different profiles, chosen based on different criteria. In general, the literature has been more interested in analyzing appointments based on merit or sponsorship, based on verification of loyalty to the government or technical competence ...
André Vaz Lopes, Míriam Aparecida Mesquita Oliveira   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Competência Cultural: promovendo cuidados de qualidade e ambientes de prática de enfermagem favoráveis em unidades multiculturais

Pensar Enfermagem
Introdução A crescente diversidade cultural em Portugal desafia as organizações de saúde a promover ambientes de trabalho positivos, capazes de apoiar as equipas multiculturais e de responder às necessidades dos clientes de diferentes origens ...
Gisela Teixeira, Ricardo Picoito, Filomena Gaspar, Pedro Lucas   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Erosion of Competition Policy in the Age of Populism: Cases of Hungary, Mexico and Turkey

Governance, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how populist governments politicize competition policy and the agencies responsible for enforcing it, focusing on the cases of Hungary, Mexico, and Turkey. We argue that competition policy has critical importance for populist governments as its control helps them advance their policy objectives and facilitates their ...
Isik D. Özel, Umut Aydin
wiley   +1 more source

Forwarding forest restoration: Seven key socio‐ecological issues for advancing forest restoration in a world in flux

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 3, Page 569-581, March 2026.
Abstract Restoring forests can help conserve biodiversity, mitigate climate change and enhance human well‐being. Despite financial and political support for global forest restoration initiatives, projects continue to face persistent challenges and trade‐offs between environmental, climatic and socio‐economic goals.
Mariana Hernandez‐Montilla, Katie Devenish, Lucas Alencar, Rayna Benzeev, Pooja Choksi, Ida N. S. Djenontin, Matthew E. Fagan, Harry Fischer, Paola Isaacs Cubides, Thais Linhares Juvenal, Matilda Kabutey‐Ongor, Judith Kamoto, Andrew Kinzer, David Kroeker‐Maus, Stephanie Mansourian, Felipe Melo, Daniel C. Miller, Sandy Nofyanza, Adithya Pradeep, Florian Reiner, Warrangkana Rattanarat, Niken Sakuntaladewi, Conghe Song, Laura Vang Rasmussen, Johan A. Oldekop   +24 more
wiley   +1 more source

La convivencia intercultural y su aplicación a la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras [PDF]

Ogigia, 2009
This article aims at investigating some aspects of the emotional competence in the cultural coexistence and its application in the field of TSFL (Teaching Spanish as a foreign language).
Dimitrinka G. Níkleva
doaj  

Competence Development and Evaluation Dynamics in the Context of Learning

Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Organizations operating in high‐risk environments rely on learning from real incidents, yet how evaluation practices contribute to competence development and organizational learning remains insufficiently understood. This challenge is evident in police operations, where decisions made under uncertainty have immediate implications for safety ...
Ensieh Roud, Riana Steen, Marita Aune
wiley   +1 more source

Competencias profesionales y organizaciones multiculturales: identificación e instrumentos de medida de la competencia intercultural

Revista Internacional de Organizaciones, 2020
Este trabajo analiza el concepto de competencia intercultural entendida como una competencia profesional para trabajar de manera efectiva en entornos multiculturales, cada vez más comunes en el mundo globalizado. Se trata de una revisión de las distintas
Ana Carballal-Broome, María José Pinillos   +1 more
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Relación entre competencia cultural y compasión en profesionales de enfermería de Bogotá

Hacia la Promoción de la Salud
Introducción: los profesionales de enfermería representan a nivel mundial la fuerza de trabajo más amplia del cuidado para la salud. En Bogotá confluyen poblaciones culturalmente diversas, por lo que la competencia cultural y la compasión, se ...
Vilma Florisa Velásquez-Gutiérrez, Nathalia García-Ocampo, Liliana Marcela Reina-Leal, Blanca Nieves Piratoba-Hernández, Lucero López-Díaz   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source