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Perceptions of Risk within Pastoralist Households in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia [PDF]

Perceptions of risk may vary within households as well as across households and communities. In this paper, we take advantage of panel survey data collected quarterly over a period of 2 ½ years to see how perceptions of risk vary across individuals over ...
Barrett, Christopher B., Doss, Cheryl R., McPeak, John G.   +2 more
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Feathers and flu: identifying data gaps in avian influenza host dynamics to prioritize wildlife conservation Plumas y gripe: identificación de datos faltantes en la dinámica de hospedadores de la influenza aviar para priorizar la conservación de la vida silvestre

Wildlife Monographs, EarlyView.
We describe the host response continuum for highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAIV), including the continuum of host responses to HPAIV infection and exposure based on the primary axis of host competence, ability to infect other hosts, and host vulnerability.
Johanna A. Harvey, Matthew Gonnerman, Shenglai Yin, Cody M. Kent, Joshua Cullen, Jeffery D. Sullivan, Jonathan B. Dain, Nichola J. Hill, Diann J. Prosser, Jennifer M. Mullinax   +9 more
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The population status and maize crop-raiding activities of Papio anubis and Chlorocebus pygerythrus in the Abala Abaya forest, located in southern Ethiopia

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Species and subspecies of primates occur in different parts of Ethiopia, and some of them are successful crop raiders. We conducted a study on the population status and maize crop-raiding activities of Anubis baboons (Papio anubis) and Vervet monkeys ...
Senait Samuel, Wondimagegnehu Tekalign
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An Analysis of Primate Behavioral Responses to Environmental Change: An Anthropological and Neurobiological Approach [PDF]

, 2013
This thesis explores the relationship between stress, measured by glucocorticoid levels, and parasites in primate taxa to evaluate physiological and behavioral responses to humaninduced and environmental change.
Fardi, Sara
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Predator‐guild‐specific parental responses mitigate higher predation risk on ground nests close to forest patches in a mosaic landscape

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Predation increases close to habitat edges, but how animals cope with local predation variations remained poorly studied. In a mosaic landscape, lapwings were compensating for increased nest predation close to forests. They acted more aggressively towards an avian predator when nesting close to trees, but comparatively tamer against a mammal.
Guillaume Dillenseger, Justine Delautre, Ankitha Jayanth, Zora Marchal, Petr Veselý, Vojtěch Kubelka   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The contribution of the humanities to the theory and practice of public administration in the 21st century

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro, Wolfgang Drechsler, Fabienne Maron, Albert Meijer, Hiroko Shimada‐Logie, Michele Tantardini   +5 more
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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Elephants in the neighborhood: patterns of crop-raiding by Asian elephants within a fragmented landscape of Eastern India. [PDF]

PeerJ, 2020
Naha D, Dash SK, Chettri A, Roy A, Sathyakumar S.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Re-examining the 'More People Less Erosion' Hypothesis:\ud Special Case of Wider Trend? [PDF]

, 2000
Recent research into natural resource rehabilitation based on in-depth case studies has highlighted situations where population growth and agricultural intensification have been accompanied by improved rather than deteriorating soil and water resources(e.
Boyd, Charlotte, Slaymaker, Tom
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