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

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Volunteering While Researching Conflict and Violence: Reflections on Listening, Solidarity, and Decoloniality in Myanmar's Borderlands

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars working on conflict and violence often engage with local organisations, yet the methodological and ethical implications of volunteering‐while‐researching are rarely discussed in writing. This article contributes to debates on decolonizing research by conceptualising volunteering‐while‐researching as a practice that—while imbued with ...
Shona Loong
wiley   +1 more source

Spread of quarantine plant pests in Ukraine

open access: yesКарантин і захист рослин
Goal. Of article is analyse of spreading dynamics of insect species with the quarantine status for Ukraine territory based on data of the State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection. Methods.
Yu. Holiachuk, H. Kosylovych
doaj   +1 more source

Mate choice confers direct benefits to females of Anastrepha fraterculus (Diptera: Tephritidae).

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
Exposure to plant compounds and analogues of juvenile hormone (JH) increase male mating success in several species of tephritid fruit flies. Most of these species exhibit a lek mating system, characterized by active female choice. Although the pattern of
Guillermo E Bachmann   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Magical Realist Hauntings in Children's Everyday Encounters With Death, or, How to Believe in Impossible Things

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern deaths have become reiterations. That is, despite exhibiting a seemingly high‐level of diversity in death's representations in everyday lives, death suffers from a particular onto‐epistemological poverty that prevents it from being imagined otherwise.
Zhaoxi Zheng   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can stable isotope markers be used to distinguish wild and mass-reared Anastrepha fraterculus flies?

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
The availability of accurate techniques to discriminate between marked laboratory-reared flies and unmarked wild flies captured in monitoring traps is essential for programs that integrate the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) to manage fruit flies. In this
Victor Botteon   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Laboratory Biology, Immature and Adult Morphology of Trichopria drosophilae (Perkins) (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae), Parasitoids of Drosophila Flies

open access: yesEntomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
This study investigates the laboratory biology and morphology of the parasitoid Trichopria drosophilae, which targets Drosophila flies, including the invasive Drosophila suzukii. Key findings include a detailed description of the parasitoid's egg, three larval instars, and pupal stage, as well as unique behaviors such as siblicide and encapsulation in ...
Alex Gumovsky   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resistance of apple genotypes to the south american fruit fly Anastrepha fraterculus (Wied., 1830) (Diptera: Tephritidae)

open access: yes
MAÇÃThe adult population dynamics, attack, damage level, number of larvae and biological aspects of Anastrepha fraterculus (Wied., 1830) were evaluated on apple genotypes, at the Experimental Station of Caçador, EPAGRI, SC.
Branco, Elisabete da Silva
core   +1 more source

Performance of Leptopilina japonica Novković and Kimura (Hymenoptera: Figitidae) Under Fluctuating Temperature and Humidity

open access: yesEntomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
Temperature is an important factor to determine the activity of insects. We tested the performance of the non‐native larval parasitoid Leptopilina japonica (Hymenoptera: Figitidae) under realistic climatic conditions to improve understanding about its ongoing spread and seasonal abundance.
Jakob Martin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

MIGRATION OF EXOTIC PESTS: PHYTOSANITARY REGULATIONS AND COOPERATIVE POLICIES TO PROTECT U.S. ECOSYSTEMS AND AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS

open access: yes
Exotic pests, Phytosanitary regulations, Technical Barriers, Trading issues, Environmental Economics and Policy, Institutional and Behavioral Economics,
Lynch, Lori
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