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From shape to source: sedimentary charcoal morphology as a proxy for tropical burned biomass composition

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sedimentary charcoal elongation is increasingly being used in paleoecology to distinguish herbaceous from woody fuel in past fires. However, the relationship between charcoal morphotypes and plant types has never been formally tested in tropical environments, despite its potential to improve understanding of fire regimes and deforestation, and
Fiona Cornet   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

The African Union as a security actor: African solutions to African problems? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper focuses on the problem-solving capacity of the African Union (AU) and its predecessor, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). It forms a companion paper to WP56.2 which looks specifically at the ability of African sub-regional organisations ...
Møller, Bjørn
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Wild pig habitat use impacted by prescribed fire in the William B. Bankhead National Forest, USA

open access: yesThe Journal of Wildlife Management, EarlyView.
Natural resource management activities like integrated wild pig control programs and 3–5‐year interval prescribed burning can reduce wild pig activity and habitat but can have an unintended side effect of allowing them to thrive in sensitive and protected areas, where access and tools are restricted.
Patience E. Knight   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Green Intellectual Capital: A Green Shoot in the Vast Field of Green

open access: yesKnowledge and Process Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The need for environmental awareness and “green management” in business and management has led to green becoming a vast field that needs to be parceled out to identify the green shoots. Knowledge is emerging as the key factor in developing green awareness, which in business has come to be called green intellectual capital.
Pedro Seva‐Larrosa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Energy goal documentation and early initiation of enteral nutrition in critically ill children: A retrospective evaluation of a quality improvement project

open access: yesNutrition in Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Early documentation of energy goals has been associated with better nutrition outcomes. We performed a successful project improving the rate of early documentation of energy goals from 30% to 97%. We then conducted a retrospective study of children admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) the year before and after ...
Sonia Parikh   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pan-Africanism

open access: yes, 2019
Pan-Africanism has been studied as an ideology, an epistemology, a theory; and also, as a social movement. However, it has insufficiently been studied as an institutionalized phenomenon and as a producer of knowledge. Most work has been conducted on the emergence of Pan-Africanism in the African diaspora in the mid-to-late 19th century.
openaire   +1 more source

Urban wild meat and pangolin consumption across southern forested Cameroon: The limited influence of COVID‐19

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Overexploitation of wildlife is pervasive in many tropical regions, and in addition to being a significant conservation and sustainability concern, it has received global attention given discussions over the origins of zoonotic disease outbreaks.
Franklin T. Simo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Black Praxis: The Trace of Jamesian Pragmatism in DuBoisian Scholar Activism

open access: yes, 2016
Philosophy and activism formed a mutualist relationship in regards to 20th-century Black American politics. Emancipatory theories undergirded the civil disobedience and reformist action of the entire century. W.E.B.
Clarke, Jerome D.
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