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Conservation of genetic resources in the Cucurbitaceae family in Bulgaria

open access: yesРастениевъдни науки, 2013
A rich collection of 2014 local and introduced accessions from Cucurbitaceae family is supported at the Institute of Plant Genetic Resources in Sadovo. Local forms are collected from different regions in North and South Bulgaria.
Stefan Neykov   +3 more
doaj  

“Anytime, Anywhere”: Online Language Tutoring Platforms and the Rise of the (Im)Mobile Language Teacher

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how online tutoring platforms (OTPs) have facilitated new forms of (im)mobility—and discourses of (im)mobility—among online English tutors. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with online tutors, the article critically interrogates OTPs' primary selling point: that online tutors can work “anytime, anywhere.” While OTPs ...
Nate Ming Curran
wiley   +1 more source

Research, conservation and utilisation of plant genetic resources and agro-biodiversity enhancement - Contribution of the Research Institute of Crop Production Prague-Ruzyně

open access: yesCzech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding, 2002
Activities on plant genetic resources in the Czech Republic are concentrated in the National Programme on Conservation and Utilisation of Plant Genetic Resources.
L. Dotlačil   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

immunoHuMiX: A personalizable gut‐on‐chip model for unraveling human microbiome–immune interactions

open access: yesVIEW, EarlyView.
The study introduces a personalized gut model that brings together human immune cells and intestinal cells to better mimic how the body interacts with microbes. This system successfully maintained both human cells and a 17‐strain probiotic community, showing consistent immune responses across different donors.
Charlotte De Rudder   +26 more
wiley   +1 more source

Technologies of identification under the Old Poor Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In this important article Steve Hindle, the leading historian of the local state and the pre-1834 Poor Law, considers the different ways in which parish and township authorities labelled and identified paupers. His paper is closely based upon the lecture
Hindle, Steve
core  

International Tourism in the Global South: Revealing an Extractive Development Process

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Hosting international tourism remains a key development strategy for many Global South countries to generate economic growth, government revenue and employment. However, this conventional wisdom can be contested: tourism may instead be seen as an extractive process that disrupts livelihoods, ecosystems and host economies.
Julia Jeyacheya, Mark P. Hampton
wiley   +1 more source

Cost of Conservation of Agrobiodiversity [PDF]

open access: yes
The cost of conservation of germplasm stored in gene banks i.e., ex-situ collections has been studied in other parts of the world to estimate direct and indirect contributions by various actors involved in conservation.
Chandak Vikas   +5 more
core  

Conceptualizing moral migration: how disillusionment and the transnational right motivate migration to Russia Conceptualiser la migration morale : comment les désillusions et la droite transnationale motivent l’émigration vers la Russie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI Introduction : vers une anthropologie linguistique de l'IA

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
wiley   +1 more source

Parameter Hierarchies and Language Contact: The Present Perfect in Ecuadorian Spanish1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the hypothesis that the ‘fine‐grained’ grammatical differences that adult grammars under contact are said to be sensitive to (e.g., Hicks et al. 2023) amount to micro/nanoparametric distinctions, in the sense of Roberts (2019).
Norma Schifano
wiley   +1 more source

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