Behavioural Welfare Implications of Human Handling Practices in Zoo Snakes
Veterinary Medicine and Science, Volume 12, Issue 5, September 2026.This study examined behavioural responses to staff‐led handling in three zoo snakes. Handling increased inactive behaviour and reduced time out of sight after interactions, while abnormal behaviour was lower on handling days. Overall, short‐term handling produced few substantial behavioural changes, suggesting minimal welfare impacts in these regularly
Chelsea Kennedy +3 more
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A dataset for translating local Bangla (Sylheti) dialects into standard Bangla. [PDF]
Data BriefPrama TT, Oni MK.
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Weather, Volume 81, Issue 9, Page 306-311, September 2026.The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary among its peers in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the diverse origins of the words we use. In this two‐part paper, we will explore these origins, including the Pontic‐Caspian steppe, the British Empire, latinophone scientists and a TV show. We
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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Comparative Ethnomedicinal Knowledge and Medicinal Plant Use among Indigenous Communities in Southwestern China and Northern Pakistan. [PDF]
Pak J Med SciTong Z, Jiying D, Qiumei Q.
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Comparative description of folklore, post-folklore and Internet folklore
Доклады Башкирского университетаI. A. Solodilova, E. A. Volkova
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Integrating Cultural Evolution Into Ecological Dynamics
Ecological Research, Volume 41, Issue 5, September 2026.Cultural evolution in humans and non‐human animals enables rapid behavioral change through social learning, with culturally transmitted behaviors reshaping population dynamics, species interactions, and community structure. Integrating cultural processes into ecology reveals fast feedbacks among ecological, biological, and cultural evolutionary ...
Shota Shibasaki
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Dataset on multiregional variations of Bangla language (BD-Dialect). [PDF]
Data BriefRahman A, Muna NH, Prity MS.
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“TO SEUNAGAN SEEKING HAS SPREAD”: THE TRANSMISSION OF ESOTERIC TRADITION AND HISTORY AS PROPHECY
History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 411-423, September 2026.ABSTRACT In this essay, I explore accusations of heterodoxy, as well as rebuttals of these accusations, leveled at Sufi groups in late‐colonial and independent Aceh, the last region of what is today Indonesia to fall under Dutch colonial rule. What has been at stake in debates about the orthodoxy of such groups has not simply, or even primarily, been ...
DANIEL ANDREW BIRCHOK
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Smells like beam spirit - a radiotherapy multiverse of (super) humans in white coats: seven radiotherapy phenotypes that suggest we may be closer to superheroes than we think. [PDF]
Rep Pract Oncol RadiotherMontero A +3 more
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The Irony of Liberation in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Journal of American Culture, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 155-163, September 2026.ABSTRACT The 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest vividly portrays the tragic consequences of repressive psychiatric authority. The film was—and remains—one of the most memorable and well‐known products of anti‐psychiatry sentiment. Opponents of American psychiatry from the time period of Cuckoo's Nest objected to what they saw as social control ...
Laura Hirshbein
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