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Religion and Black/White Residential Segregation: The Influence of Religious and Regional Context
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on religious tradition and residential segregation focuses on “open” versus “closed” civic orientations, but ignores the structural effects of religious fields as well as other relevant differences, such as Catholic immigrant parishes and the communal role of Black Protestantism in response to racial hostility in large northern cities
David Sikkink, Michael Emerson
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Journal of Zoology, EarlyView.In our recent study, we examined whether ants in the Brazilian Cerrado follow the “grain‐size hypothesis,” which proposes that larger ants should have proportionally longer legs to move efficiently across different environments. We used Ectatomma permagnum, a common predatory ant in the Cerrado, measuring hundreds of individuals collected from various ...
A. Sandim, R. Aranda
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Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 2, Page 911-925, April 2026.ABSTRACT Three categories of explanations exist for why we age: mechanistic theories, which omit reference to evolutionary forces; weakening force of selection theories, which posit that barriers exist that prevent evolutionary forces from optimising fitness in ageing; and optimisation theories, which posit that evolutionary forces actually select for ...
Michael S. Ringel
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The Impact of Climate on the Energetics of Overwintering Paper Wasp Gynes (Polistes dominula and Polistes gallicus). [PDF]
Insects, 2023 Kovac H +4 more
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Molecular bases of insect odorant receptor function: specificity and evolution
Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 2, Page 1036-1049, April 2026.ABSTRACT Insect odorant receptors (ORs) are a class of chemoreceptors that insects use to detect volatile cues in their environment. In recent years, major advances in the field of structural biology have made it possible to obtain the first structures of insect ORs.
Zibo Li +5 more
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First report of the paper wasp Polistes rothneyi Cameron (Hym.: Vespidae: Polistinae) from Iran [PDF]
نامه انجمن حشرهشناسی ایران, 2016 During the course of our study on the paper wasp fauna of the Iranian province of Kerman, between 2015 and 2016, we collected 11 vespid species of which Polistes rothneyi Cameron (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) found to be a new record for the ...
آرمین نعمتی +3 more
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“One Nation under God?”: Ethnicity and Identity in Modern America
Amnis, 2002 This paper examines the sources of “Anglo-Saxonism”, the invention of English ethnicity and the manner in which the latter came to fuse with Protestant Christianity from the 16th century onwards in creating the notion of the WASP.
Gary D. German
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The Dynamics of Reading Genre Fiction: Researching and Teaching Interpretive Practices
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.Conceptual model positioning genre fiction as a site for studying how narrative form organizes reader interpretation, identifying four dynamics—iterability, narrative interest, serialization, and spectacle—to guide empirical research on reading processes.
Robert Jean LeBlanc, Amy Stornaiuolo
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Color is necessary for face discrimination in the Northern paper wasp, Polistes fuscatus. [PDF]
Anim Cogn, 2023 Jernigan CM +4 more
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Molecular Ecology Resources, Volume 26, Issue 3, April 2026.ABSTRACT Genetic diversity is a critical but often overlooked component of biological diversity. The European H2020 FORGENIUS project is aimed at increasing the quality and quantity of genetic data to start monitoring the European network of forest Genetic Conservation Units (GCUs).
Sara Pinosio +78 more
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