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Is Black Motherhood A Marker of Oppression or Empowerment? Hip-Hop and R&B Lessons about Mama [PDF]

, 2015
A qualitative content analysis was conducted on the lyrics of 59 songs (40 Hip Hop songs; 17 R&B songs; 2 songs that represented the Hip Hop and R&B genre) from 1961-2013 to identify the ways that Black male and Black female artists described motherhood.
Brown, Arielle, Chaney, Cassandra
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Bushmeat consumption frequency and preferences among rural households in a West African savanna landscape: Implications for food security and conservation

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The drivers of consumer demand for bushmeat are relatively well studied in tropical forest systems, but much less so in savanna areas. This is important because differing ecological and socio‐economic conditions lead to different factors affecting the relationship between local communities and their natural resources.
Hannah N. K. Sackey, James McNamara, E. J. Milner‐Gulland, Yaa Ntiamoa‐Baidu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Repositories of biocultural diversity: Toward best practices for empowering ethnobotany in digital herbaria

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Societal Impact Statement As herbaria digitize millions of plant specimens, ethnobotanical information associated with them is becoming increasingly accessible. These biocultural data include plant uses, names, and/or management practices of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs).
Robbie Hart, Viviane Fonseca‐Kruel, Eduardo Dalcin, Estevão da Silva Luís Alexandre, Matthew Pace, Michaela Schmull, Leonardo Beltran‐Rodríguez, Miguel Murguía‐Romero, Diana G. Flores‐Camargo, Cristina Mapes‐Sánchez, Mark Nesbitt, Carolina Romero, Andrew Townesmith, Jan Salick, Alex McAlvay, Kenneth R. Otero‐Walker, Michael J. Balick, Jacob Golan, Bruce Hoffman, Kelsey Leonard, Giulia Mattalia, Guillaume Odonne, Aurora Prehn, Ina Vandebroek   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Children's first names and immigration background in France [PDF]

We present evidence indicating that immigrants and especially those from the Maghreb/Middle-East give first names to their children that are different from those given by the French majority population.
Ali Skalli, Damien Besancenot, Kim Huynh, Mahmood Arai   +3 more
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Ethnobotanical insights into the medicinal and food uses of Lamiaceae in the Mediterranean region: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
For generations, Mediterranean communities have used Lamiaceae or Labiatae plants like rosemary, thyme or mint to care for their health and to enrich their food. By bringing together dispersed knowledge from across the Mediterranean region, our review revealed the continuing relevance of Lamiaceae while also compiling past uses that may hold future ...
Fuencisla Cáceres, Joan Vallès, Teresa Garnatje, Airy Gras   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Institutional Decline and Resilient Belief: Understanding Secularization in Latin America

Socius
A large body of literature analyzes trends of religious decline across Western Europe and North America. Often rooted in secularization theory—the idea that modernization reduces religious beliefs and practice—this research lacks attention to global ...
Matthew Blanton
doaj   +1 more source

Nutritional properties, traditional uses and potential new applications for the sotol plant (Asparagaceae, Convallarioideae): A review

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Sotol (Dasylirion spp.) is a resilient desert plant that sustains ecosystems, cultures and livelihoods in Chihuahua Desert. Our review highlights its nutritional properties, traditional uses and potential new applications in food, pharmaceuticals, renewable energy and water remediation. By synthesizing evidence across disciplines, we show how sotol can
Dámaris Leopoldina Ojeda Barrios, Antonio Martínez Ruiz, Marisela Calderón Jurado, Ramón Saúl Luján Aguirre, Juan Luis Jacobo Cuellar, Oscar Sariñana‐Aldaco, María Teresa Martínez Damián, Oscar Cruz Alvarez   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Present Condition and Role of the Catholic Church in Poland

, 2018
My remarks about the present condition and role of the Catholic Church in Poland are not based on formal sociological research, for I am not a sociologist.
Wierzbicki, Alfred Marek
core  

Do Single‐Sex STEM Programs Have Merit? If So, for Whom, on What Measures?

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Single‐sex STEM programs—defined here as voluntary, gender‐segregated extracurricular or supplemental activities (e.g., summer camps, workshops, robotics clubs, internships, or citizen science initiatives)—have experienced heightened popularity and scrutiny amid efforts to increase diversity in STEM fields.
Chen Chen, Tomihiro Ono, Gerhard Sonnert, Susan Sunbury, Philip Sadler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Operationalizing the Metaverse for Urban Sustainability: Evidence From an Expert Panel and the Seoul Metaverse City Case Study

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smart cities and urban digital twins have fostered the emergence of immersive environments, such as the metaverse. While contemporary scholarlship has increasingly examined the integration of the metaverse within smart city infrastructures, the critical nexus between urban sustainability and the metaverse remains largely under‐researched. This
Jose Manuel Diaz‐Sarachaga, Ayyoob Sharifi   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source