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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 480-493, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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Influence of bio and chemical preservative on microbiological, sensory properties and antioxidant activity of ginger-flavored plantain wine for food waste prevention strategy

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research
Plantain (Musa paradisiaca), a staple crop in Africa especially Nigeria holds cultural and economic importance. However, due to rapid ripening and high perishability, a significant portion of harvested plantains spoils, contributing to substantial ...
Adekunbi Adetola Malomo, Oluwatobi Victoria Obayomi, Joy Modupe Akala, Abiola Folakemi Olaniran, Hezekiah Adekanmi Adeniran, Sumbo Henrietta Abiose   +5 more
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Reframing Mother–Child Closeness and Cooperative Caregiving: A Comparative Study of Two Hunter‐Gatherer Populations

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 190, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Objectives Caregiving during early childhood emerges from a dynamic interplay between maternal and allomaternal contributions. This study aimed to challenge polarized portrayals of hunter‐gatherer childcare as either “mother‐centered” or “cooperative” and provide empirical evidence for an integrative cross‐cultural approach.
Ayana Tanaka, Haneul Jang, Shun Hongo, Akira Takada   +3 more
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Improvement of Fibromyalgia by Immunoglobulin/Histamine Complex Therapy for Chronic Urticaria and Allergic Rhinitis: A Case Report

Clinical Case Reports, Volume 14, Issue 8, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic pain syndrome characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, often accompanied by fatigue, sleep disturbance, and cognitive symptoms. Although several treatment options are available, no curative therapy has been established.
Hyuk Soon Kim, Yunyoung Nam, Jeong Eun Sohn, Geunwoong Noh   +3 more
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Rubber and plantain intercropping: Effects of different planting densities on soil characteristics.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Two field experiments were conducted at Ellembelle and Jomoro districts in the Western region of Ghana where rubber cultivation is a predominant farming activity.
Erasmus Narteh Tetteh, Akwasi Adutwum Abunyewa, Henry Oppong Tuffour, Joseph Nketiah Berchie, Patricia Pinamang Acheampong, Kwame Twum-Ampofo, Evans Dawoe, Vincent Logah, Olivia Agbenyega, Stella Ama Ennin, Isaac Nunoo, Caleb Melenya, Eric Owusu Danquah, Victor Rex Barnes, Samuel Tetteh Partey   +14 more
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Dietary supplementation with soluble plantain non-starch polysaccharides inhibits intestinal invasion of Salmonella Typhimurium in the chicken.

PLoS ONE, 2014
Soluble fibres (non-starch polysaccharides, NSP) from edible plants but particularly plantain banana (Musa spp.), have been shown in vitro and ex vivo to prevent various enteric pathogens from adhering to, or translocating across, the human intestinal ...
Bryony N Parsons, Paul Wigley, Hannah L Simpson, Jonathan M Williams, Suzie Humphrey, Anne-Marie Salisbury, Alastair J M Watson, Stephen C Fry, David O'Brien, Carol L Roberts, Niamh O'Kennedy, Asa V Keita, Johan D Söderholm, Jonathan M Rhodes, Barry J Campbell   +14 more
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Quality Assurance Framework for the Design, Collection and Curation of Standard Data Products From a Distributed Ecology Network

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2026.
Ecological data are increasingly collected by networks of collaborators using replicated designs and methods, which can significantly improve the quality and quantity of data throughout the ecological niche and geographic range of species or communities.
Yvonne M. Buckley, Alain Finn, Aoife Molloy, Anna Mária Csergő, Elizabeth Crone, Annabel L. Smith, Bret D. Elderd, Caroline McKeon, Deborah Roach, Dylan Z. Childs, Glenda M. Wardle, María B. García, Maude Baudraz, Rachel M. Penczykowski, Roberto Salguero‐Gómez, Ruth Kelly, Satu Ramula, Anna Liisa Laine, Simone Blomberg, Johan Ehrlen, Jesús Villellas, Aveliina Helm, Christiane Roscher, Krista Raveala, Liv Norunn Hamre, Lotte Korell, Francis Q. Brearley, Siri Lie Olsen, Astrid Wingler, Joslin L. Moore, Ayco J. M. Tack, Anna Bucharova, Olav Skarpaas, Judit Bodis, Aldo Compagnoni, Sergi Munne‐Bosch, Zuzana Munzbergova, Joachim Töpper, Peter Vesk, Melanie Morales, Lizzie Wandrag, Marjo Saastamoinen, Martin Andrzejak, Pil Rasmussen, Christina Caruso, Richard Duncan, John Dwyer, Matthew Coghill, Ronny Groenteman, Meelis Pärtel, William K. Petry, Michele Lonati, Javier Puy, Jane Catford, Trevor H. Drees, Christoph Rosche, Katriona Shea, Simone Ravetto Enri, Jennifer R. Gremer, Balázs Deák, Lauchlan Fraser, Lauri Laanisto, Orsolya Valkó, Robert Drew Sieg, Benedicte Bachelot, Jennifer Firn   +65 more
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Spatial market integration analysis of plantain markets in mid Ghana

Cogent Business & Management
The paper estimates the degree of integration of plantain prices in three selected markets to assess the efficiency of the plantain marketing system in mid Ghana.
Christina Antwiago Amarchey, Paul Adjei Kwakwa   +1 more
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Managing the Environmental Impacts of Outdoor Winter Grazing by Livestock

New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, Volume 69, Issue 4, August 2026.
This review presents a synthesis of current knowledge about managing the potential impacts of outdoor animal wintering activities and their consequences for a range of environmental outcomes. The scope is confined to field‐based wintering approaches and thus, does not consider issues associated with the winter use of animal shelters or standoff systems.
Ross M. Monaghan, Brendon Malcolm, Chandra Ghimire, L. Chris Smith, Bob Longhurst   +4 more
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The influence of the plantain juice on the manifestations and outcome of acute cyclophosphamide intoxication in rats

Биопрепараты: Профилактика, диагностика, лечение, 2018
To estimate the influence of the plantain juice on neurological manifestations of the severe acute cyclophosphamide intoxication, rats have been gavaged with 4 ml/kg plantain juice 1 h before cyclophosphamide dosing (intraperitoneally, 600 mg/kg). Within
T. V. Schäfer, J. J. Ivnitsky, V. L. Rejniuk   +2 more
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