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The study examined multiscale factors influencing walnut fruit infestations by the invasive pest fly Rhagoletis completa. Infestation rates increased with fruit size, host tree abundance, grasslands, hedgerows and temperatures, but decreased with anthropogenic habitats and heavy spring rainfall.
Méghan Boulembert +5 more
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Bioecology parameters of the endemic Psychidae Deborrea malgassa, the main pest of apple trees in Madagascar. Spatiotemporal dynamics of Deborrea malgassa, with a peak infestation between May and August. Proposed targeted prophylaxis techniques associated with other agroecological principles will be key to reducing the vulnerability of apple orchards ...
Miora Ranaivozandriny +6 more
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Palermo became the new capital of Sicily after the Aghlabid conquest in 831. The transformation of the city into a capital took many forms, including the production and consumption of pottery. The perspective from ceramic evidence shows that Palermo underwent faster and deeper processes of Islamization than other urban and rural contexts across the ...
Viva Sacco
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Abstract In Central Africa, human activities are severely impacting terrestrial and aquatic wildlife, threatening the food security of millions of people. Accordingly, sustainable use of wildlife is crucial for the nutrition and livelihoods of many rural communities in the region.
Zolo Admettons +9 more
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ABSTRACT As a periodization that is generally understood to refer to an era of Terrestrial relationships that developed with modernization and nuclearization, the Anthropocene cannot be applied simply to premodern histories and texts. However, it has introduced historians to geological periodization as a mode of describing periods of changed ...
Gwenffrewi J. Morgan
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Abstract Mountain social–ecological systems encompass steep ecological gradients and diverse cultural practices, yet the relative roles of these factors in shaping mountain landscapes remain underexplored. In particular, the knowledge and practices of women in coproducing biocultural landscapes are often invisible in the academic literature. In the Ait
Meryem Aakairi +6 more
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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac
Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
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Des traces d’artisanat dans les monastères comtois du haut Moyen Âge
Despite the substantial amount of archaeological research carried out on Early Medieval monasteries in Franche-Comté over recent years, the reality of artisanal production within these establishments remains difficult to clarify, given the lack of any ...
Sébastien Bully +2 more
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Penetration enhancement effects of topically applied crosslinked hyaluronic acid
Cross‐linked hyaluronic acid (HA) was demonstrated to enhance the topical delivery of a variety of hydrophilic actives into the skin. This phenomenon was observed for both small molecules and macromolecules, the latter of which was analysed with MALDI mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI‐MSI).
Aaron Cohen +7 more
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Abstract Background Fontan circulation carries high morbidity and mortality, driven in part by impaired exercise capacity, muscle deficits, and endothelial dysfunction. In a pediatric cohort with Fontan circulation, we examined associations between exercise capacity, endothelial function, and muscle parameters before enrollment in a randomized exercise
Mavis C. Lui +11 more
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