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The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN
History, EarlyView.Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
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Insect Science, EarlyView.Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) signaling via its receptor has integral roles in mosquito physiology, mediating fluid excretion, stimulating hindgut contractions, and in modulating uric acid levels. Together, these results uncover previously unrecognized roles of prostaglandin signaling in osmotic balance and metabolic homeostasis in mosquitoes.
Hyeogsun Kwon +3 more
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Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The study examines whether and how Chief Executive Officer (CEO) tenure and gender diversity influence the quality of carbon reporting (QCR), an increasingly significant dimension of non‐financial reporting in the era of climate change risk.
Muhammad Nurul Houqe +2 more
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Land, Gendered Labor, and Empire‐Making in Central Sudan
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article offers an ethnographic analysis of Gulf Arab empire‐making in central Sudan, focusing on an Emirati‐owned farm in the Gezira region as a key site of capitalist extraction and imperial ambition. Through three overlapping vantage points—farm, port, and body—it explores how Emirati investments in Sudanese land, infrastructure, and ...
Nisrin Elamin
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Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante +3 more
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Clinical Endocrinology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate methods used to assess individual iodine status in infants under 2 years of age and to examine their clinical utility in relation to thyroid dysfunction across different clinical contexts. Design The protocol was registered on PROSPERO and followed PRISMA guidelines.
Sabrina Bilston‐John +3 more
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Taxonomic and functional diversity of urban bees of the world
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Bees play a pivotal role in terrestrial environments. Urbanization can affect these organisms and the ecosystem services they provide. However, knowledge of the global diversity of urban bees is limited. Thus, we summarized data on urban bee species identities and occurrences; compared distributions of all bees with those found in urban ...
João C. F. Cardoso +10 more
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Evolutionary consequences of flowering-pollinator asynchrony: the case of a floral oil-producing plant and its oil-collecting bees. [PDF]
Ann BotCarneiro LT, Machado IC.
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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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Animal Teachers: Nonhuman Pedagogy and the Question of Deceit
Educational Theory, EarlyView.Abstract Animals as “teachers” of human children and adults is a recurring theme in children's literature, in anthropological accounts of “feral children,” as well as in contemporary practices of animal‐assisted pedagogy, philosophical research, wildlife documentaries, and popular culture.
Helena Pedersen
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