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Game Changers: Leadership Lessons From Popular Sport Icons

New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 25-31, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT This article explores leadership lessons that can be drawn from popular sport icons. These lessons reveal how athletes leverage their status to drive social change or how they inspire others through performance‐based practices that align with effective modern‐day leadership skills.
S. Lynn Shollen, Maylon Hanold
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From foraging to decomposition: Large vertebrates as biotic drivers of trace element cycling across landscapes

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
We highlight an overlooked pathway in ecosystem functioning: the role of animal carcass decomposition in trace element cycling. By linking animal life cycles to landscape‐scale processes, we explain how large animals redistribute scarce elements and influence spatial heterogeneity, with implications for ecosystem functioning and restoration.
Elke Wenting, Henk Siepel, Elisabeth S. Bakker, Michael S. Strickland, Laurel Lynch, Harry Olde Venterink, Philip S. Barton   +6 more
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Cricket

Notes and Queries
Cricket er et spil med bold og bat for to hold med hver 11 spillere. Spillet foregår på en oftest rund græsdækket bane med en diameter på ca. 120 m. På midten af banen er anlagt en 20 meter lang og ca. to meter bred pitch. I Danmark består denne af en kraftig kunststofmåtte lagt på et særligt bearbejdet underlag.
Helmersen, Ole, Ankerdal, Steen, Nissen, Søren   +2 more
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Influence of cricket powder content and placebo effect on consumers’ acceptance of sweet biscuits

Agronomía Mesoamericana
Introduction. Insect-based foods represent an emerging alternative to conventional food products. Insect powders are an important protein source with reduced ecological impact, though its incorporation into foods should consider effects on sensory ...
Solène Cabagnols, Óscar Acosta-Montoya, Pilar Fallas-Rodríguez   +2 more
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Use of Various Media on Hatchability, Hatching Time and The Vitality of Honey Cricket Tillers (Gryllus mitratus)

Indonesian Journal of Agricultural Research, 2020
Crickets are the most demanded commodity because there have the most interest in ornamental livestock such as birds, while the presence of crickets in nature has diminwashed because their natural habitat has been increasingly eroded by city development ...
Ersan Riaji Lumban Tobing, Nevy Diana Hanafi, Sayed Umar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rapid Identification of Edible Insect Species in Food Using MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry. [PDF]

Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom
ABSTRACT Rationale Edible insects are emerging as sustainable, nutritious ‘foods of the future’ and are gradually introduced to the European market as novel foods. Ensuring consumer safety and preventing fraud requires legal regulation, which in turn depends on reliable analytical methods.
Straka D, Meledina A, Smirnova TA, Hajslova J, Kourimska L, Kulma M, Sebelova K, Pospisil O, Kopecka A, Kuckova S.   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

What Are Select Committees For?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The modern select committee system in the UK House of Commons was introduced in 1979 to deepen opportunities for backbench MPs to hold government to account and strengthen Parliament vis‐à‐vis the executive. However, select committees play a much bigger role in parliamentary life.
Marc Geddes
wiley   +1 more source

‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source