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Nutritional properties, traditional uses and potential new applications for the sotol plant (Asparagaceae, Convallarioideae): A review

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Sotol (Dasylirion spp.) is a resilient desert plant that sustains ecosystems, cultures and livelihoods in Chihuahua Desert. Our review highlights its nutritional properties, traditional uses and potential new applications in food, pharmaceuticals, renewable energy and water remediation. By synthesizing evidence across disciplines, we show how sotol can
Dámaris Leopoldina Ojeda Barrios   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social‐ecological signatures in plant species composition across Swiss cities and urban green space types

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Cities can harbor greater plant diversity than other ecosystems, yet how city sociocultural factors may determine differences in plant composition across equivalent urban green space types remains understudied. Here, we compare plant communities in five main urban greenspace types across three Swiss cities representing the country's French (Geneva ...
Joan Casanelles‐Abella   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Turkey as a middle power in Central Asia: regional cooperation amid geopolitical competition with Russia, China, and the United States

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
IntroductionAmid the transformation of the global order and intensified Eurasian competition, Turkey has expanded its engagement with Central Asia through connectivity diplomacy, identity-based multilateralism, and selective security and economic ...
Adilbek Yermekbayev, Zhadyra Yekibassova
doaj   +1 more source

Operationalizing the Waste Hierarchy Though A Synthetic Performance Indicator: Evidence From Spain

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ensuring compliance with the European Union (EU) waste hierarchy is essential for advancing circular economy objectives and meeting legally binding municipal solid waste (MSW) targets. This study develops and applies the Waste Hierarchy Achievement Synthetic Indicator (WHASI), an innovative synthetic index designed to assess territorial ...
Victor Mocholí   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Manuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies Life and Collections of Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815-1905) in Context

open access: yes
Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎Figures -- ‎Notes on Contributors -- ‎Note on Transliteration and Dates -- ‎Chapter 1. Introduction (Liebrenz and Rauch) -- ‎Part 1. Berlin -- ‎Chapter 2. Johann Gottfried Wetzstein als Forscher (Preißler †) --
Rauch, Christoph., Liebrenz, Boris.
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Navigating Between the Scylla and Charybdis of Hype and Fear: Decolonizing ELT Materials Through Generative Artificial Intelligence

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite calls from critical applied linguists to decolonize ELT materials that reproduce colonial ideologies, teachers working under neoliberal constraints and attendant time pressures often have to deliver textbook content as is rather than revising it.
Steven Yeung, John Gray
wiley   +1 more source

Epidemiological distribution of MRI‐based presumptive imaging diagnoses in a large general population of cats with suspected epileptic seizures

open access: yesVeterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background The reported prevalence of feline idiopathic epilepsy (IE) and presumptive imaging diagnoses based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) varies depending on factors such as differences between primary care versus referral study populations.
Anna Knebel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of the Eastern Mediterranean in human evolution: recent results from Greece Le rôle du Bassin méditerranéen oriental dans l’évolution humaine : résultats récents en Grèce

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The Eastern Mediterranean lies directly on the principal migration route for human groups dispersing across Africa, Europe, and Asia. It also encompasses the Balkans, where fauna and flora, as well as hominin populations, are thought to have persisted through glacial periods.
Katerina Harvati
wiley   +1 more source

Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography*

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching the Others’ History in an Arab National Context Comparing Emirati to Syrian School Textbooks

open access: yesGenealogy
This study examines the way world history is taught in two Arab states of diverse backgrounds and international statuses, i.e., the Syrian Arab Republic before the fall of Bashar al-Assad and the United Arab Emirates.
Maria Darla, Panos Kourgiotis
doaj   +1 more source

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