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The Collective Power of Bacteria as a Blueprint for Emergent Intelligence

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Small cells, powerful collectives. Bacteria demonstrate how sophisticated behaviors can emerge from many simple individuals working together. We explore the remarkable world of bacterial communities and the mechanisms that underpin their complex emergent behaviors, enabling impressive adaptability, robustness, and responsiveness to changing ...
Johanna A. Blee, Thomas E. Gorochowski, Sabine Hauert   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hypothèses sur l’origine et la diffusion du complexe rituel du tlacaxipehualiztli

Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2008
Hypothesis about origins and diffusion of the ritual process of tlacaxipehualiztli. This article tries to document similarities between rituals practised mostly by hunter-gatherers of the North of Middle America and one of the most famous Aztec ritual ...
Anne-Marie Vié-Wohrer
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Food insecurity and unemployment among immigrants in the United States

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Immigrants can be more vulnerable to economic downturns and, during periods of economic hardship, more likely to experience food insecurity compared to natives. This study examines the differential effect of the unemployment rate on the probability of being food insecure among diverse groups of immigrant households relative to natives in the ...
Siwen Zhou, Joshua Berning, Alessandro Bonanno, Jude Bayham   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Two Mesolithic burials from Khor Shambat, Sudan [PDF]

Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
The site of Khor Shambat 1 (KSH1) is located on the west bank of the Nile, in Omdurman, approximately 5 km north of Tuti Island. The first surveys there started in 2012, to be followed by an expedition of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology ...
Maciej Jórdeczka, Łukasz Maurycy Stanaszek   +1 more
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Success of coastal sage scrub restoration is influenced by local adaptations of shrub species

American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Restoring plant communities is increasingly challenging with climate change. While practitioners have traditionally used local seed sources, many are recommending assisted migration, possibly from more extreme environments such as inland rather than coastal environments, for restoration.
Moises R. Perea‐Vega, Megan E. Lulow, Julie E. Coffey, Amy K. Henry, Katharina T. Schmidt, Priscilla M. Ta, Kailen A. Mooney, Sarah Kimball   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using photovoice to understand community perceptions of firearm risks and protective factors among Asian Americans

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study used photovoice methodology to explore Asian Americans' perspectives on the root causes and protective factors of firearm violence in their communities. Photovoice provided a participatory platform for community members to document lived experiences and identify priorities for change.
Tsu‐Yin Wu, Szu‐Hsien Chen, Xining Yang, Ken Resnicow, Hsing‐Fang Hsieh   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hunter-gatherers and farmers: neighbours in north-eastern Kuiavia, Poland

Documenta Praehistorica, 2003
The aim of this paper is to discuss the new discoveries made in the Tążyna-Parchania valley, in north-eastern Kuiavia, Poland. These discoveries put into a new light the problem of contacts between hunter-gatherers and farmers from the Polish Lowland.
Lucyna Domanska
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Freedom dreaming of migrant justice: Critical reflections on counterspaces and institutional violence in the university

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham, Jesica Siham Fernández   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Magnetic Resonance Reveals Radical Stability in Native Biofilms and Its Role in Bacterial Resistance

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
The complex biofilm environment consists of planktonic bacterial cells and cells embedded in an extracellular matrix (ECM). Through an integrated magnetic resonance approach, we show that nitroxide radicals primarily interact with the polysaccharides and lipids in the ECM.
Alysia Mandato, Hannah Hunter, Sadhana Srinivasa, Chang‐Hyeock Byeon, Abdulkadir Tunc, Meghan K. Wells, Faith J. Scott, Frederic Mentink‐Vigier, Wook Kim, Sunil Saxena, Ümit Akbey   +10 more
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Admixture as a source for HLA variation in Neolithic European farming communities

Genome Biology
Background The northern European Neolithic is characterized by two major demographic events: immigration of early farmers from Anatolia at 7500 years before present, and their admixture with local western hunter-gatherers forming late farmers, from ...
Nicolas Antonio da Silva, Onur Özer, Magdalena Haller-Caskie, Yan-Rong Chen, Daniel Kolbe, Sabine Schade-Lindig, Joachim Wahl, Carola Berszin, Michael Francken, Irina Görner, Kerstin Schierhold, Joachim Pechtl, Gisela Grupe, Christoph Rinne, Johannes Müller, Tobias L. Lenz, Almut Nebel, Ben Krause-Kyora   +17 more
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