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Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of Several Green Manure Species on the Physicochemical Characteristics, Enzymatic Activities, and Microbial Community Composition of Soils Under Protected Cultivation. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Yu J, Xu K, Li Z, Wang X, Yan Q, Qi K, Chen T, Han M.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
wiley   +1 more source

Responses of Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling Gene Abundances to Winter Green Manure Incorporation in a Ratoon Rice System. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Shao P, Chen S, Jia S, Shi M, Hou Q, Yang Z, Zhong L, Yuan Z, Huang C, Fu Z, Long P, Xu Y.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Archiving the History of Environmentalism: Insights from Academia and Practice

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This Forum considers the current state of archiving for the environmental movement at local, national and international levels. It responds to a gap that researchers of environmentalism have long been aware of, but one that is poorly understood from the perspective of records management and collections development practice.
Henry Irving, Paul Beard, Georgina Brewis, Sara Kinsey, Heather Forbes, Tara‐Lee Platt, Maissan Hassan, Rebecca Marti   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study of Light Gas Generation Behavior during the Thermal Chemistry Conversion Process of Cattle Manure. [PDF]

ACS Omega
Zhao X, Xiong X, Zhang Y, Tan H, Ruan R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Uncovering Biogas Outcomes: Tales of Hubris, Hope, and Failure From Southern Malawi

Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to speak directly to biogas failure. Over the past two decades, immense amounts of money have been spent by African governments, private individuals, and most conspicuously, international aid agencies and donors, on countless biogas projects in every country on the continent.
Marc Kalina, Jonathan Kwangulero, Jonathan Òlal Ogwang, Natalie Boyd Williams, Elizabeth Tilley   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seasonal Patterns of Soil Bacterial and Fungal Communities Under Practical Organic Fertilizer Regimes in a Tea Plantation. [PDF]

Microorganisms
Huang Y, Hu M, Zhu H, Sha Q, Wang Q, He Q, Deng X, Yuan W, Guan Y, Shi N, Li Y, Zhang W, Wang B, Wang X.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Stable flies preferentially oviposit on sites offering conspecific eggs with egg‐derived bacterial semiochemicals

Insect Science, EarlyView.
Stable flies preferentially oviposit on sites offering conspecific eggs with egg‐derived airborne semiochemicals. Egg‐borne bacterial symbionts, and Serratia marcescens in particular, produce odorants which attract gravid female flies and elicit oviposition.
Emmanuel Hung, Anya Gould, Stephanie Zaborniak, Caelen Watson, Regine Gries, Sukhmani Kaur, Kyra Stephens, Augustus Negraeff, Ryan Lam, Alpha Hui, Pantea Zamani, Aryan Monfared, Gerhard Gries   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Co-application of leguminous and non-leguminous green manures enhances subsequent wheat yield stability in saline-alkali soils. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci
Zhang M, Yu R, Cao J, Li W, Tang S, Chen Z, Liu H, Wang X, Cai J, Zhang H.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source