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Contrasting Responses of Rodents With Different Habitat Associations to Rapid Urbanization in a Chinese Megacity

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Rapid urbanization reshaped rodent populations, morphology, and gut microbiota along an urban–rural gradient. The synanthropic rat (Rattus norvegicus) increased in abundance toward the urban core and exhibited reduced ear and tail length, whereas the farmland mouse (Apodemus agrarius) and woodland rat (Niviventer confucianus) declined.
Chao Zhang, Yingqun Feng, Shaoya Wang, Tiantian Xia, Jing Chen, Zekai Ren, Dan Yang, Hongyu Niu, Hongmao Zhang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study on sound insulation performance of walls in traditional timber dwellings of the Miao ethnic group in Qiandongnan. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Huang X, Zhao W, Huang Z, Wang Y, Du Y, Du L, Chen Y.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
wiley   +1 more source

Design of Trabecular Bone-Inspired Mechano-Acoustic Coupling Porous Structures. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Lin Y, Zhang J, Zhang C, Liu R, Yu Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Liquid Assemblies: An Institutional Design for Liquid Democracy

Constellations, EarlyView.
Chiara Valsangiacomo Balmelli, Christina Isabel Zuber   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global Union Federations and Human Rights Due Diligence: Strategic Repertoires in a Shifting Legal Terrain

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the strategic engagement of global union federations (GUFs) with emerging human rights due diligence (HRDD) legislation as a mechanism of transnational labour governance. Drawing on a multimethod qualitative design—including legal and document analysis and interviews with union officials—the study identifies six ...
Ingrid Landau, Shelley Marshall, Hila Shamir   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Review and Research Proposal on Pioneering Sustainable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with Kenaf Fibre Biocomposites for Structural and Electronic Integration. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Balakrishnan TS, Abdan K, Nozdrzykowski K, Grzejda R, Ali MR, Nayak SY, Pai A.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Continuity and Rupture of the ‘New Washington Consensus’: From Biden to Trump 2.0

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ‘New Washington Consensus’ (NWC) represents a major intellectual shift in the US approach to global economic governance. However, the NWC has never been subject to systematic academic critique. With Trump's return to the White House ushering in a new era of US trade policy, the NWC is widely considered to be politically irrelevant in the ...
Ming Du
wiley   +1 more source

Broadband low-frequency sound absorption and high insulation in a clay-cement composite with hydrogel-foaming engineered gradient porosity. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Hou Z, Zhou Z, Chen X, Zhang K, Li H, Zheng Y, Wang L.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Perversity, futility, complicity: Should democrats participate in autocratic elections?

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Electoral authoritarianism is receiving increasing attention from political scientists, yet it has been mostly ignored by political philosophers. This paper aims to fill some of this gap by considering whether it is morally permissibly for democrats to participate in autocratic elections as candidates or voters.
Zoltan Miklosi
wiley   +1 more source