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Ancient Great Wall building materials reveal environmental changes associated with oases in northwestern China. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2022
Patalano R, Hu J, Leng Q, Liu W, Wang H, Roberts P, Storozum M, Yang L, Yang H.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

An Economic and Environmental Analysis of Virtual Fencing for Precision Grazing

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The UK grazing livestock sector is challenged by declining farm profitability and stringent environmental policy. Innovative technologies such as virtual fencing could enable a balanced economic and environmental performance of beef production. Virtual fencing is a livestock management tool relying on invisible boundaries perceived as auditory,
Elias Maritan, Karl Behrendt, Sarah Morgan, Steven Mark Rutter, James Lowenberg‐DeBoer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Alien versus predator”: predatory effect of coccinellid Exochomus quadripustulatus on the scale insect Toumeyella parvicornis. An open‐field experimentation on the Pinus pinea of Rome

Insect Science, EarlyView.
The release of gravid Exochomus quadripustulatus females proved to be effective in containing Toumeyella parvicornis infestations on stone pine trees, under open‐field condition. The ladybugs caused a lower infestation level compared to the trees that did not receive any ladybugs during the observation season.
Nicolò Di Sora, Luca Rossini, Giulia Luziatelli, Mario Contarini, Stefano Speranza   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

On-site plant-wax biomarker analysis for assessing soil-organic-microbial degradation in archaeological contexts: A case study from Southern India. [PDF]

iScience
Jha G, Vyas V, Jha DK, Patalano R, Paladugu R, Ilgner J, Boivin N, Raj R, Krishnan K, Roberts P, Petraglia M.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

New Results From the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic Site of Al Uyaynah, Tabuk, in Northwestern Saudi Arabia

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Al Uyaynah is a low sandstone mound on an alluvial plain, long known for its extensive surface remains of stone‐built circular and rectangular structures. Following test excavations in 2012, more detailed excavation was undertaken in 2016 within one of the largest rectangular stone structures.
Khalid Alasmari, Stephanie F. Piper, Kirsten Grothe, W. Derek Hamilton, Delphine Joly, Penny Bickle, Geoff Bailey   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal distribution of the North American Indigenous population prior to European contact. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Kelly RL, Mackie ME, Pelton SR, Robinson E.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Early Pleistocene faunivorous hominins were not kleptoparasitic, and this impacted the evolution of human anatomy and socio-ecology. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2021
Domínguez-Rodrigo M, Baquedano E, Organista E, Cobo-Sánchez L, Mabulla A, Maskara V, Gidna A, Pizarro-Monzo M, Aramendi J, Galán AB, Cifuentes-Alcobendas G, Vegara-Riquelme M, Jiménez-García B, Abellán N, Barba R, Uribelarrea D, Martín-Perea D, Diez-Martin F, Maíllo-Fernández JM, Rodríguez-Hidalgo A, Courtenay L, Mora R, Maté-González MA, González-Aguilera D.   +23 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
wiley   +1 more source

For your eyes too: a new set of images of biological materials from the scientific commissioning of the MOGNO beamline at Sirius. [PDF]

J Synchrotron Radiat
Colaço MV, Alvarenga T, Archilha NL, Barroso E, Colaço G, Cupello C, da Silva HR, Fidalgo G, Garcia AM, Oliveira S, Paiva K, Sena G, Tanure T, Barroso RC.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
wiley   +1 more source