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The Enemy\u27s Enemy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This project contains a pilot script for an original television sci-fi series The Enemy\u27s Enemy, which creates a vast and explorable world in which forces duel for power, honor, and the heart of the galaxy.
Creel, Joshua Benjamin
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Between soft power and suspicion: Chinese international students as diasporic actors in U.S.‐China geopolitical tensions

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
wiley   +1 more source

De «bandidos» e «infidentes»

open access: yesMélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2018
The article deals with the subject of banditry in Cuba during the first half of the 19th century, focusing first on the semantic and coercive treatment of the subject by the island’s executive and Permanent Military Commission (1825-1856) and thence ...
Alina Castellanos Rubio
doaj   +1 more source

Orchard netting impacts on biodiversity leading to cascading effects at the ecosystem level

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agriculture must ensure food production without further compromising the ecosystem functions upon which it depends. Agricultural practices should therefore avoid harming farmland biodiversity, especially of taxa that supply the key ecosystem services (e.g.
Corrado Alessandrini   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Appendix A. Calculating enemy effects and predictions of the enemy release hypothesis (ERH). [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Calculating enemy effects and predictions of the enemy release hypothesis (ERH)
Jessica J. Hellmann (327875)   +1 more
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Dynamics of biotic resistance to plant invasions

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biotic resistance, the reduction in invasion success caused by native communities, plays an important role in the long‐term dynamics of biological invasions. A large body of empirical research on biotic resistance has accumulated since the last comprehensive review on the subject 20 years ago, enabling us to achieve a refined understanding of ...
Christine S. Sheppard   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nets must be properly garnished to give concealment [PDF]

open access: yes, 1943
Lithograph.; Includes vignette of German soldier with white strip across his eyes, surrounded by the words 'Camouflage blinds the enemy'; "1943--O-554991."Poster shows a German plane dropping bombs, visible through netting, with the words "Poor ...

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How to coexist with fire ants: The roles of behaviour and cuticular compounds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
tBecause territoriality is energetically costly, territorial animals frequently respond less aggressively toneighbours than to strangers, a reaction known as the “dear enemy phenomenon” (DEP).
Céréghino, Régis   +5 more
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El botín y las culturas de la guerra en el espacio litoral rioplatense

open access: yesAmnis, 2011
The aim of this article is to explore the practices and concepts that legitimized the right to the booty during the revolutionary wars in the Rio de la Plata.
Raúl Osvaldo Fradkin, Silvia Ratto
doaj   +1 more source

Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Semelparity, the reproductive strategy of reproducing once, is widespread but uncommon in animals. Classes of models to explain the evolution of semelparity are based either on age structure and mortality schedules – demographic models in which high post‐reproductive mortality risk favours high reproductive effort and semelparity results from ...
Diana O. Fisher   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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