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Governing and Living Through Failure: Russian Speakers in Ethnocentric Nation‐Building Projects of Estonia and Latvia

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to nationalism studies by demonstrating how states use failure as a governance tool to regulate national belonging and by showing how people experience and reinterpret failure in ways that unsettle dominant national imaginaries.
Lena Hercberga, Alina Jašina‐Schäfer
wiley   +1 more source

Epilithic Algae from Seven Megaliths in the Vicinity of Topolovgrad (Haskovo District, Southeast Bulgaria). [PDF]

Life (Basel)
Stoyneva-Gärtner MP, Androv MI, Uzunov BA, Ivanov KR, Gärtner G.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Historic Floodplain Meadows in the Landscape: Investigating Anthropogenic Habitats Important for Nature Conservation, Carbon Sequestration and Flood Attenuation. [PDF]

Environ Manage
Firth A, Firth E, Rothero E, Gowing D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Documenting biodiversity with digital data: comparing and contrasting the efficacy of specimen‐based and observation‐based approaches

New Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary Digitized herbarium specimens and iNaturalist observations provide invaluable plant biodiversity data. Combining these two data sources could create a more holistic representation of local biodiversity; however, understanding biases inherent to each is critical to determine how to best combine and utilize these data.
Rebecca C. Wilcox, Anthony E. Baniaga, Avery P. Hill, Alison Young, Rebecca F. Johnson, Sarah J. Jacobs   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vascular Flora on Croatian Historic Structures: Drivers of Biodeterioration and Conservation Implications. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Cozzolino A, Motti R, Vitasović-Kosić I.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

What Can the State of Nature Justify?

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social contract theory is one of the most popular approaches to political justification. While the state of nature account in social contract theory is generally invoked to justify the state's authority, I argue in this paper that no extant account succeeds in doing so.
Arthur (Hongyang) Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Old cemeteries help to protect endangered and protected vascular plant species in the Right-Bank of Dnipro Grass Steppe District, southern Ukraine. [PDF]

Biodivers Data J
Skobel N, Moysiyenko I.
europepmc   +1 more source

Practice Without Theory? The Wonder of Bethpage Black

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bethpage State Park's Black Course offers a rare historical case of administrative capacity emerging under conditions of uncertainty, fiscal constraint, and urgent public purpose during the Great Depression. Built with relief labor and without the benefit of fully developed public administration or budgeting doctrines, the project required ...
Odd J. Stalebrink
wiley   +1 more source

Functional surface engineering for cultural heritage protection: the role of superhydrophobic and superoleophobic coatings - a comprehensive review. [PDF]

Beilstein J Nanotechnol
Lama GC, Lavorgna M, Verdolotti L, Recupido F, Buonocore GG, Bhushan B.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Powers and Practices in Labor Standards Enforcement

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wage theft remains a pervasive problem internationally and within the United States. In response, worker advocates have sought stronger laws to deter violations and promote compliance. Yet formal authority alone may be insufficient; labor departments often fail to use the full extent of their legal authority to conduct vigorous enforcement ...
Daniel J. Galvin, Hana Shepherd, Jenn Round, Jake Barnes, Janice Fine   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source