The Joy of Pests: Camaraderie, Wonder and Dialectical Autonomy in UK Professional Pest Management
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract Using interviews and participant observation, this research explores the everyday practices and experiences of UK‐based pest management professionals. It reveals an unexpected and unalienated ‘joy of pests’ anchored in problem‐solving variety, camaraderie and zoological curiosity.
Hannah Fair
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Towards the automatic detection and identification of English puns
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2016 Lexical polysemy, a fundamental characteristic of all human languages, has long been regarded as a major challenge to machine translation, human–computer interaction, and other applications of computational natural language processing (NLP). Traditional
Tristan Miller, Mladen Turković
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Dementia Care for Europeans in Thailand: A Geography of Futures. [PDF]
Am Behav Sci, 2022 Pratt G, Johnston C.
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The evidence for old age motor neuron death: A scoping review
Physiological Reports, Volume 14, Issue 11, June 2026.We systematically evaluated the extant literature on age‐related motor neuron (MN) death in aging, focusing on studies directly assessing MNs. We show that in the spinal cord and brainstem, there is robust evidence for MN loss, particularly in the human spinal cord. In rats, MN loss was readily observed across a variety of labelling methods and regions,
Sang Won Cheung, Matthew J. Fogarty
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What's in a pun? Assessing the relationship between phonological distance and perceived funniness of punning jokes. [PDF]
Humor (Berl)Palmann A, Miller T.
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The Graphic Descriptor Ontology: An ontology for semantic annotation of graphics and its application to graphic libraries of anatomical standards. [PDF]
PLoS OneClarkson MD, Perry NC, Detwiler LT.
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LOCALLY ADAPTIVE HALF-MAX METHODS FOR AIRWAY LUMEN-AREA AND WALL-THICKNESS AND THEIR REPEAT CT SCAN REPRODUCIBILITY. [PDF]
Proc IEEE Int Symp Biomed Imaging, 2020 Nadeem SA +3 more
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Optimal combination of canopy management and planting density for yield enhancement in late-sown cotton. [PDF]
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The African wildlife ontology tutorial ontologies. [PDF]
J Biomed Semantics, 2020 Keet CM.
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