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ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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En la oscuridad o la razón en el laberinto: de la búsqueda del sentido en nuestros días
En la comunicación que aquí propongo me gustaría conectar el proceso de racionalización iniciado en la modernidad y el problema del sentido que éste suscita con lo que Arendt llama «tiempos de oscuridad» y que Richard Sennett nombra como la «corrosión ...
Víctor Granado Almena
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ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has gained much interest in public administration and public policy fields in recent years. Research on and that uses AI has so far treated it as an object or context within the broader administrative and governance discourse.
Yanto Chandra, Jianxiang Tan
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El cuerpo propio es el núcleo de la existencia humana concreta. Es el centro de acción que me coloca "entre" y "en medio" de las cosas y aquello por medio de lo cual hay un mundo para mí.
María del Carmen Paredes Martín
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The Contention of Care: A Latin American Perspective
ABSTRACT In the current global political landscape, characterised by increasing polarisation and a rise in far‐right conservative governments, ‘care’ has become a contested field. In particular, the decline in birth rates has catalysed conservative discourse advocating a return to ‘traditional’ values around the world.
Belén Villegas Plá
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Risks of concealing environmental degradation
Abstract Current practice seeks to conceal the visual impact of land‐use change (i.e., development). Six percent of development impact assessments in Australia and 14% of the World Bank's assessments recommend visual impact mitigation. This mitigation results in, for example, vegetated buffer strips alongside cleared agricultural areas and earthen ...
Matt W. Hayward +8 more
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Scientists’ warning on the global destruction of rock outcrop ecosystems
Abstract Rock outcrops are geological formations that harbor a highly specialized biota adapted to harsh environmental conditions that differ from their surrounding landscapes. They are globally distributed, especially in old, highly weathered landscapes, and can function as habitat islands containing high levels of endemism and distinct evolutionary ...
Luiza F. A. de Paula +19 more
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The link between colorfulness and extinction risk across the world's passerine birds
Abstract Many of the functional traits that mediate extinction risk across the range of biodiversity relate indirectly to a species’ ability to persist in a changing world, yet certain traits such as coloration directly affect human interactions with wildlife.
Montague H. C. Neate‐Clegg +1 more
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He dedicado casi cuarenta años de mi vida a un área muy especial del periodismo. Siendo aún estudiante, empecé a trabajar en los Servicios Externos (de radio) de la BB C (British Broadcasting Corporation), y he permanecido en la misma organización ...
Andrew Mango
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