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InsectsThe abundance of insects in Burmese amber illustrates a highly diverse insect community from the mid-Cretaceous period; yet, records of crickets (Grylloidea) are notably scarce.
Jun-Jie Gu, Yi Zhou, Wei Yuan
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the 1956 Semenyih strip–search scandal in British colonial Malaya during the Malayan Emergency, a counterinsurgency campaign shaped by Cold War politics in Southeast Asia, to explore how non‐elite Chinese women navigated surveillance, humiliation, and limited opportunities to have their grievances recognized.
Alison Fong
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.This study reports two isolated feather fossils from the Lower Cretaceous Dabeigou Formation in northeastern China. Morphological analyses identified them as the earliest known feathered theropods (potentially including avian) in the Jehol Biota. This finding reveals a complex ecosystem at the dawn of the Jehol Biota, bridging the temporal and faunal ...
Qian Wu +2 more
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A new Myrmecarchaea (Araneae: Archaeidae) species from Oise amber (earliest Eocene, France)
BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin, 2020 Extant Archaeidae, also known as pelican or assassin spiders, have an Austral distribution (South Africa, Madagascar and Australia), but were present in Eurasia during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic, as attested by fossils from Cretaceous Burmese amber (Ross ...
Carbuccia Benjamin +4 more
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Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 131-159, March 2025.Abstract This study examines the adaptive market hypothesis in the prewar and wartime Japanese stock market using a new market capitalization‐weighted price index. First, we find that the degree of market efficiency varies over time and with major historical events. This implies that the hypothesis is supported in this market.
Kenichi Hirayama, Akihiko Noda
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the formation and operation of Myanmar's Interim Ethics Review Board (IERB), which was established in November 2023 by displaced academics involved in the Civil Disobedience Movement against the 2021 military coup. Operating within a highly repressive, conflict‐ridden environment, the IERB exemplifies a locally‐led and ...
Phyu Phyu Thin Zaw +3 more
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‘We need solidarity’: Reflections on Building and Troubling Solidarity in Research Ethics in Myanmar
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Calls for solidarity by civil society are taking place alongside changes in how researchers navigate shifting research landscapes. Yet what solidarity‐based research entails in practice and how this might guide, critique, or challenge institutionalised ethics can be elusive.
Vanessa Lamb +3 more
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Research Ethics in Conflict Zones: Reflections on ‘Do no Harm’ Ethics for the Research Network
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What does it mean to ‘do no harm’ in academic research? ‘Do no harm’ ethics emphasizes the responsibility of researchers to mitigate the emotional, physical, and political harms that may arise through participation in research. These concerns are heightened in conflict zones, where access constraints and intersecting vulnerabilities shape the ...
K. B. Roberts
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Fostering refugees' entrepreneurial instincts: Lessons from the past, learning for the future
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract The ongoing global crises have sparked academic discussions on immigration, recognizing it as a key factor in socio‐economic advancement. Immigration is viewed as an essential element of human capital, capable of addressing labor and skill shortages in developed nations.
Gagan Deep Sharma +4 more
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InsectsA new extant genus of Keroplatidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha), Davimacrocera gen. nov., is described in this paper, which includes two new species, Davimacrocera davidi sp. nov. (Brunei, type species of the genus) and D. taiwanensis sp. nov. (Taiwan, China)
Jan Ševčík
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