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Commodity risk assessment of oak and walnut logs from the US
EFSA Journal, Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract The European Commission submitted to the EFSA Panel on Plant Health a Dossier from the United States proposing the use of a vacuum–steam–heat treatment as a stand‐alone phytosanitary measure to mitigate the risk of entry of Bretziella fagacearum, Geosmithia morbida and its vector Pityophthorus juglandis (thousand cankers disease complex) into ...
EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH) +30 more
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Another tempo distortion: analyzing controlled fertility by age-specific marital fertility rate [PDF]
The rise in marital fertility in East Asian societies with very low fertility has been reported through analyses using the age-specific marital fertility rate (AMFR).
Kiyosi Hirosima
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Social and family constructions of marital endogamy in 19th Century Eastern Belgium [PDF]
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NEVEN, M, ORIS, M, Van de Putte, Bart
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Modeling Control of Invasive Fire Ants by Gene Drive
Advanced Science, Volume 12, Issue 46, December 11, 2025.The fire ant Solenopsis invicta is characterized by exceptional invasive capabilities, rendering conventional control ineffective. Here, we explore the use of homing suppression gene drive in fire ants by developing a spatially explicit model. Overall, these results show that target population suppression requires an extended time scale, but that gene ...
Yiran Liu +3 more
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Nuptiality and fertility in Saudi Arabia: An appraisal of census data
Middle East Fertility Society Journal, 2013 Saudi Arabia constitutes bulk of the Arabian Peninsula. Higher birth and lower death rate with higher levels of expectation of life characterizes Saudi Arabian demography. This attempt at appraising nuptiality and fertility is based on censuses. Marriage
Asharaf Abdul Salam
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Marriage Patterns in the United States [PDF]
This paper analyzes cohort marriage patterns in the United States in order to determine whether declining rates of first marriage are due to changes in the timing of marriage, the incidence of marriage, or both.
David E. Bloom, Neil G. Bennett
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 12, December 2025.Camponotus lateralis (C, D) mimics regional color morphs of Crematogaster (A, B). Field trips brought insights into ecology, trail sharing, sexual reproduction, colony foundation, nest defense, and predation pressure of this mimetic ant. We found that the mimicry is Batesian and suggest several preadaptations for its evolution.
Herbert C. Wagner +3 more
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Demographic Shocks: The View from History [PDF]
The paper will basically deal with four issues. The first one puts current changes or shifts into a historical comparative perspective. The second deals with "traditional" shocks or violent disturbances of the system and their consequences.
Livi Bacci, Massimo
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The geographic context of male nuptiality in western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s [PDF]
This paper studies the relationship between characteristics of men’s place of residence and the probability of entering marriage in western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s.
Karsten Hank
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From Preventive to Permissive Checks: The changing nature of the Malthusian relationship between nuptiality and the price of provisions in the nineteenth century [PDF]
The Malthusian “preventive check” mechanism has been well documented for pre-industrial England through evidence for a negative correlation between the marriage rate and the price of wheat.
Jacob Weisdorf, Paul Sharp
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