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Trade Networks and Consumer Practices in Amedeka, Ghana: Negotiating “Nkudzedze” From the Late 19th to Mid‐20th Centuries

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 4, Page 757-776, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper examines local taste practices in the era of “legitimate trade” when the trade in botanical (e.g., palm oil, palm kernel oil, and cocoa) and nonbotanical (e.g., ivory, textiles) commodities replaced the trade in enslaved Africans. Following the 1807 British abolition of the Atlantic trade in enslaved people, the locus of the trade ...
Dela Kuma
wiley   +1 more source

Intake and digestion of non-traditional feedstuffs by farmed collared peccary (Mammalia, Tayassuidae)

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Zootecnia, 2018
To assess the ability of the collared peccary ( Pecari tajacu ) to digest dietary fiber, four adult male collared peccaries were randomly assigned to a 4 × 4 Latin square design to determine the effects of feeding non-traditional feed ingredients, taken ...
Sérgio Luiz Gama Nogueira-Filho   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Amazonia's Cassava and Manioc Through Historical Times

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This provocation calls readers to think more deeply about the role anthropology could play in radically disrupting plant blindness. Thanks to Environmental Humanities, the natural world is no longer apprehended as a mere backdrop to human activity.
Laura Rival
wiley   +1 more source

RESÍDUO AGROINDUSTRIAL E LODO DE ESGOTO COMO SUBSTRATO PARA A PRODUÇÃO DE MUDAS DE Eucalyptus urograndis

open access: yesCiência Florestal, 2018
The objectives of this study were to evaluate the use of substrates based on residues from the peach palm and composted sewage sludge in the production of Eucalyptus urograndis seedlings with different levels of fertilizer and to compare them to a ...
Francisca Alcivania de Melo Silva   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Notas sobre la historia natural de las oropéndolas Psarocolius yuracares y P. Angustifrons Alfredi en la provincia Chapare, Cochabamba, Bolivia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Se aportan datos de historia natural para dos oropéndolas o tojos (Psarocolius yuracares y P. angustifrons alfredi) poco estudiadas de la provincia Chapare, Departamento Cochabamba, Bolivia. P.
Fraga, Rosendo Manuel, Kreft, Stefan
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Strolling through Paradise [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
With each of the usual tree forcings I (e.g., I = Sacks forcing S, Laver forcing L, Miller forcing M, Mathias forcing R, etc.) we associate a sigma--ideal i^0 on the reals as follows: A \in i^0 iff for all T \in I there is S \leq T (i.e.
Brendle, Jörg
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Thinned and Welded Silver Nanowires for Intelligent Pressure and Humidity Sensing Enabled by Machine Learning

open access: yesAdvanced Science, Volume 12, Issue 43, November 20, 2025.
Thinned and welded silver nanowires are prepared by selectively engineering their morphology and structure. The resulting films show enhanced optical, electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties. By incorporating machine learning, the developed pressure and humidity sensors are able to accurately identify finger pressing behaviors, monitor human ...
Jiajun Fan   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

The worldwide status of phasmids (Insecta: Phasmida) as pests of agriculture and forestry, with a generalised theory of phasmid outbreaks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
© 2015 Baker. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium ...
Baker, E
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Corn cob pyrolysis: A systematic literature review of methods and applications

open access: yesThe Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Volume 103, Issue 11, Page 5520-5585, November 2025.
Mapping the research landscape of corn cob pyrolysis. Abstractas The agricultural sector is experiencing a surge in waste generation due to population growth, creating an urgent need to convert byproducts into value‐added products. Maize (Zea mays L.), a leading global crop, produces significant byproducts, such as corn cob, which are often undervalued.
Vilmar Steffen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Physicochemical and antioxidant composition of fresh peach palm (Bactris gasipaes Kunth) fruits in Costa Rica

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Food Technology
Summary The variability of the physicochemical composition, carotenoid and polyphenol contents and hydrophilic antioxidant capacity of fresh peach palm (Bactris gasipaes) fruit was studied with a view to its exploitation as a potential source of ...
Carolina Rojas-Garbanzo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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