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Tracing change in the public perception of plants: insights from archives and social media in China

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 5, Page 1853-1871, September 2026.
As urbanization accelerates, historic gardens serve as vital cultural treasures that offer spiritual and cultural support to the public. This study proposes an innovative approach that merges historical records from the Qing Dynasty with contemporary social media data to explore changes in public perceptions of these gardens.
Dong Xu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Epistemic diversity and the politics of knowledge in plant disease management: Insights from the Xylella fastidiosa epidemic in southern Italy

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 5, Page 1872-1889, September 2026.
Xylella fastidiosa is a major plant pathogen affecting crops such as grapes, citrus, almonds, and olives, with potentially severe consequences for agricultural production and rural livelihoods worldwide. This paper examines the conflict around the management of the X. fastidiosa outbreak affecting olive trees in southern Italy.
Fabio Gatti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 343-373, September 2026.
Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
wiley   +1 more source

The epidemiology of attacks on statues: New Zealand as a case study. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One, 2021
Wilson N, Jones AC, Teng A, Thomson G.
europepmc   +1 more source

Pulling the Lever Without Moving the Machine: English Teacher Education and the Limits of Sexuality Education Reform

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT In this paper we draw on complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory to explore how changing systems of teacher education constrain attempts to introduce expanded sexuality education curricula. We report findings from a mixed methods study of teacher educators' perceptions of their provision in relation to England's statutory Relationships, Sex and ...
Joshua Heyes, Pujitha Kanakam
wiley   +1 more source

SmartTur+ECO: A Multimodal Conversational Recommender System Integrating Virtual Reality and Gamification for Smart Tourism

open access: yesExpert Systems, Volume 43, Issue 9, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper presents SmartTur+ECO, a system for tourist attractions that integrates conversational recommendation systems (CRS), virtual reality (VR) and gamification. It efficiently gathers trip data and elicits user preferences through interactions with a chatbot, addressing the user‐cold start problem common in tourism.
Juan Carlos Carrillo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Widespread Association of Ciliates Colonizing Gills of Shrimps Inhabiting Vents and Seeps Across the Pacific Ocean

open access: yesJournal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, Volume 73, Issue 5, September/October 2026.
ABSTRACT Bacterial symbiosis is well‐documented in chemosynthesis‐based ecosystems, but associations with microeukaryotes remain overlooked. In this study, using scanning electron microscopy and 18S rDNA barcoding, we investigate the presence, diversity, and biogeographic patterns of ciliate epibionts associated with two deep‐sea caridean families ...
Lison Hey   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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