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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

The Scholar Imprisoned: Young‐Bok Shin's Decolonial Thought Against (Sub) Imperialisms in East Asia

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads Young‐Bok Shin (1941–2016) as a decolonial thinker who theorized transformative worldmaking from the standpoint of the oppressed, rooted in the historical experiences of East Asia. Against the (sub)imperial “logic of sameness” that structures colonial modernity in his social world, Shin advances gongbu (studying) as a ...
Veda Hyunjin Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Molecular Evidence for the Placement of Microcerberidae (Crustacea: Isopoda) Within the Suborder Asellota and Invalidity of the Suborder Microcerberidea

open access: yesZoologica Scripta, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since their discovery, the question of the phylogenetic position of Microcerberidae within Isopoda has been widely debated. Initially perceived as close relatives of the Anthuridae, the debate has shifted towards considering them either as a sister group of Asellota or positioned within the Asellota in their own right.
Christophe J. Douady   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization of postnatal brain injury and behavioural deficits in a rat model of placental insufficiency‐induced fetal growth restriction

open access: yesThe Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract figure legend Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is a common pregnancy complication associated with long‐term neurodevelopmental impairments. Using the reduced uterine perfusion pressure (RUPP) rat model of placental insufficiency‐induced FGR, this study demonstrates that FGR leads to persistent anatomical, histological and behavioural ...
Judit Alhama‐Riba   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Subaltern Strategies and Agency: How South Asian American Youth Rework the Model Minority Stereotype

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how South Asian American youth, as epistemically marginalized or “subaltern” actors, navigate racialized school experiences. It focuses on how South Asian American boys employ the model minority stereotype through finessing, a strategy of agency that counters exclusionary labels like perpetual foreigner and nerd while ...
Joan J. Hong
wiley   +1 more source

Knocking Off the Street: The Subversive Writings of Hong Kong's Grassroots Kings

open access: yesCity &Society, Volume 38, Issue 2, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how two grassroots street artists in Hong Kong, the King of Kowloon (Tsang Tsou‐choi) and the Plumber King (Yim Chiu‐tong), intervene in the city's everyday visual order. Moving beyond celebratory collective memory narratives and easy analogies to graffiti, it frames their works as subversive urban practices that rework ...
Shizheng Liang, Zihong Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Associations of GA and GMI/GA Ratio With All‐Cause Mortality in Well‐Controlled Type 2 Diabetes Defined by Continuous Glucose Monitoring

open access: yesDiabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews, Volume 42, Issue 5, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Aims There is uncertainty whether traditional glycemic metrics remain associated with long‐term outcomes among patients with type 2 diabetes who achieve recommended continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) targets. This study was aimed to investigate the association of glycated albumin (GA) and ratio of glucose management indicator to GA (GMI/GA ...
Jiaying Ni   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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