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STRATIFIED ADAPTATION: Infrastructure, Elevation, and Cascading Floods in the Urban Mekong Delta
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Flood‐prone cities in the global South are increasingly the target of infrastructure projects aimed at building climate ‘resilience’. At the same time, residents of these cities take adaptation to flooding into their own hands. In this article we examine the interrelationship between household‐scale and urban‐scale flood mitigation projects in
Lizzie Yarina +3 more
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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The Politics of Hope: Strategies of Compromise in the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's intelligence chiefs explicitly link the role and purpose of their agencies today to two royal commissions led by Justice Robert Hope in the 1970s and 1980s. Such appeals to Hope's inquiries as the genesis of Australia's contemporary professional and apolitical intelligence community lean into the legitimising function of royal ...
Melanie Brand, Brian Cuddy
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Land, Gendered Labor, and Empire‐Making in Central Sudan
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article offers an analysis of Gulf‐Arab and more specifically Emirati empire‐making in central Sudan, by focusing ethnographic attention on an Emirati‐owned farm in the Gezira region as a key site of capitalist extraction and imperial ambition.
Nisrin Elamin
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Majallah-i ḥifāẓat-i giyāhān, 2016 Introduction: Tall morning-glory is an annual broadleaf weed and a problem in many crops globally. Tall morning-glory belongs to the family Convolvulaceae.
A. Kiani, A. Siahmarguee, E. Soltani
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Phylogenetic Patterns of Swainsonine Presence in Morning Glories
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Endosymbionts play important roles in the life cycles of many macro-organisms. The indolizidine alkaloid swainsonine is produced by heritable fungi that occurs in diverse plant families, such as locoweeds (Fabaceae) and morning glories (Convolvulaceae ...
Quynh N. Quach +3 more
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Death, Grief and Collective Care in the Materialist Spirituality of a Forest Preschool
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In a time when material reality appears disconnected from the spiritual world and meaning is sought through overconsumption of the Earth's material sphere, this study explores how death and grief are narrated as part of the ‘stories of the land’ that unite the material and spiritual worlds in a forest preschool in southeastern Finland ...
Emma Kurenlahti +3 more
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ARS Medica, 2020 Un paciente de 3 meses con sospecha de estrabismo presenta al examen una gran anisometropía con -9.50 esfera en su ojo izquierdo y al fondo de ojo destaca una papila alterada similar a la papila de Morning-Glory.
Matías José Bagolini Fuentes +1 more
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Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Masculinity is often portrayed as a barrier to shifting away from fossil fuels because jobs in extractive industries represent a nostalgic masculine breadwinner identity. Accordingly, proposals for a just energy transition have provoked backlash aimed at protecting against perceived threats to manhood.
Jen Kostuchuk, Anelyse M. Weiler
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Transcriptome Profiling of Beach Morning Glory (Ipomoea imperati) under Salinity and Its Comparative Analysis with Sweetpotato. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The response and adaption to salt remains poorly understood for beach morning glory [Ipomoea imperati (Vahl) Griseb], one of a few relatives of sweetpotato, known to thrive under salty and extreme drought conditions.
Julio Solis +4 more
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