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, 2018 As an architecture student I am constantly looking at nature for design inspirations, and my search often leads me to the structure and design of bees. These tiny creatures are some of the best builder, but their habitat is being destroyed day after day ...
Marshall, Jeremy, Maue, Ellie
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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Direct and indirect effects of land use on microbiomes of trap-nesting solitary bee larvae and nests
Frontiers in MicrobiologyIntroductionThe global decline in biodiversity and insect populations highlights the urgent need to conserve ecosystem functions, such as plant pollination by solitary bees.
Birte Peters +5 more
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The diversity and floral hosts of bees at the Archbold Biological Station, Florida (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) [PDF]
, 2002 A list is provided of 113 species of bees and their 157 known floral hosts at the Archbold Biological Station(ABS), a 2105 ha site on the Lake Wales Ridge in Highlands County in south-central Florida.
Deyrup, Mark +2 more
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Austere Moral Ecologies and Artificial Agents
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract There are underappreciated moral costs for deploying artificially intelligent agents in our present bureaucratically and market‐structured world. Currently, AI systems lack the interiority and mutual vulnerability required for genuine moral relationality.
Manuel Vargas
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SociobiologySolitary bees are diverse and very important for plant and crop pollination. They are extensively studied taxonomically, but little is known about their anatomy and physiology compared to honey bees.
Kariman M. Mahmoud, Mohamed Shebl
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COOPERATIVE NESTING AND OVARIAN DEVELOPMENT IN FEMALES OF THE PREDOMINANTLY SOCIAL BEE EXONEURA BICOLOR SMITH (HYMENOPTERA: ANTHOPHORIDAE) AFTER FORCED SOLITARY ECLOSION [PDF]
, 1991 Michael P. Schwarz, Kara J. O’Keefe
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Ecology of native bees in North Taranaki, New Zealand : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Zoology at Massey University, Manawatū, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2018 Studies are increasingly finding that native bees are important pollinators in many systems, in both natural and agricultural settings. With the possible loss of honey bees due to various reasons, it has become clear that relying on major pollinator for ...
Hartley, Nikki Maria
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Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract There are better and worse ways to acquire epistemic virtues and more generally to be disposed to change or maintain one's epistemic dispositions over time. This is a dimension along which one might be better or worse as an epistemic agent that, we argue, cannot be explained with reference to current normative categories in epistemology but ...
Laura Frances Callahan, Michael C. Rea
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