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“The Smell Makes Us Hungry”: When Food Is Not Medicine in Highland Madagascar

Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the wake of major disruptions to global supply chains during the Covid‐19 pandemic, the island nation of Madagascar pursued initiatives for auto‐suffisance, self‐sufficiency, in food supplies and medical treatments. Farming communities in the central highlands experienced an injunction to expand cultivation of both subsistence crops and ...
Gabrielle Robbins
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Which Decolonization? Theorizing Decolonization beyond Decoloniality and its Critics

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The debate on decolonial thought has reached an unhelpful stalemate. A core problem in assessing decolonial thought is that the term ‘decolonization’ has been stretched so widely that it now allows for many competing uses. For some critics of decolonial thought such as Nigerian philosopher Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, this overuse points to conceptual ...
David Myer Temin
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Role of plant functional traits in the invasion success: analysis of nine species of Asteraceae

BMC Plant Biology
Various attributes are hypothesized to facilitate the dominance of an invasive species in non-native geographical and ecological regimes. To explore the characteristic invasive attributes of the family Asteraceae, a comparative study was conducted among ...
Amarpreet Kaur, Aditi Sharma, Shalinder Kaur, Manzer H. Siddiqui, Saud Alamri, Mustaqeem Ahmad, Ravinder Kumar Kohli, Harminder Pal Singh, Daizy Rani Batish   +8 more
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Can Machines Perform Emotional Labor in Education? Tracing Debates in Early Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

Educational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract Can an artificial intelligence (AI) system perform the emotional labor of teaching, or can it only reproduce emotional labor's outward signs? In this article, I argue that the latter does not by itself justify the former. Emotional labor in education includes surface acting, but it still presupposes an agent capable of emotion, self‐regulation,
Noah Khan
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Biology of the Gall Midge Spanolepis selloanae (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae), a Candidate Biological Control Agent of the Invasive Grass Cortaderia selloana

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
Spanolepis selloanae (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) infests Cortaderia selloana (pampas grass). It lays eggs in the spikelets, where larvae feed on female parts. The high prevalence of the midge and its combined impact in seed production, condition and viability strongly reduces the reproductive output of C. selloana.
María J. Servia, Anxo Balado, Natalia Calvo‐Rendal, Carla García‐Bértoa, Sara García‐Méndez, Andrea Grau, Jaime Fagúndez   +6 more
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An Argument for Minimalism about Action

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Minimalism is the view that the mark of action is object‐causation, rather than intentionality, voluntariness or goal‐directedness. Actions, on this view, are instances of objects causing change. Despite a recent surge of interest in the view, it is still seldom regarded as a serious alternative to orthodox theories of action, according to ...
Robin T. Bianchi
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Emergence of potentially disinfection-resistant, naturalized Escherichia coli populations across food- and water-associated engineered environments

Scientific Reports
The Escherichia coli species is comprised of several ‘ecotypes’ inhabiting a wide range of host and natural environmental niches. Recent studies have suggested that novel naturalized ecotypes have emerged across wastewater treatment plants and meat ...
Daniel Yu, Paul Stothard, Norman F. Neumann   +2 more
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Grazing preference of Merino sheep for naturalized annual clover species relative to commonly sown clover species

, 2016
Selective grazing of white clover (Trifolium repens) over grass species in temperate pastures results in reduced clover abundance and availability over time. Within sheep- and cattle-grazed dryland (
Moir, James, Maxwell, Thomas, Edwards, GR   +2 more
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Is urbanisation a barrier to genetic diversity in the solitary specialist bee, Melissodes druriellus?

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Bees are integral pollinators commonly found in and supported by urban green spaces; however, their eco‐evolutionary response to urbanisation varies interspecifically. While several studies have explored the population and landscape genetics of bees in response to urbanisation, few have examined solitary or specialist species which may be more ...
Anthony C. Ayers, Sargon Yousefian Dezag Tekkie, S. Eryn McFarlane, Sandra M. Rehan   +3 more
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Alien Flora on Weizhou Island, Northern South China Sea: Inventory and Invasion Risk Assessment

Diversity
Islands subjected to anthropogenic disturbance are highly susceptible to alien plant invasions. However, the alien floral diversity of China’s islands has been insufficiently studied, hindering its control.
Hong Wei, Xuan Wu, Linyu Bai
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