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Robotics for Crop Pollination: Recent Advances and Future Direction

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is great interest in alternative pollination strategies for crop production in the face of climate change and perennial threats to the traditional pollination mechanisms. This review explores the potential of robotic pollination as a promising solution to these challenges affecting crop fertilization, agricultural sustainability, and ...
Ranjan Sapkota, Matthew D. Whiting, Dawood Ahmed, Manoj Karkee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Floral Biology of Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Spreng

Horticulturae
Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Spreng is a known medicinal plant producing agarwood. To date, studies on the floral biology of A. sinensis have been limited.
Bin Wang, Guangyao Ma, Suxian Lin, Xin He, Bo Chen, Haoling Li, Liangming Huang, Yun Yang, Jianhe Wei   +8 more
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Glocal Regenerative Viticulture: Exploring Sustainable Winemaking Strategies in Europe

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global wine industry is transforming due to climate change challenges. Glocalization is increasingly relevant in winemaking, where geographical and cultural diversity requires context‐specific solutions in the existing sustainability spectrum in viticulture.
Aleksandra N. Volkova, Ekaterina A. Ivanova, Aleksandr K. Vorobev, Flavio P. Martins, Michael E. Akim   +4 more
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Dynamic Pollen–Stigma Coordination in Dendrobium Hybridization: A Strategy to Maximize Fruit Set and Hybrid Seed Viability

Horticulturae
This study investigated dynamic pollen–stigma coordination to optimize interspecific hybridization in Dendrobium using D. ‘Burana Jade’ as the maternal parent and eight wild species as pollen donors. Stigma receptivity was comprehensively evaluated using
Qian Wu, Yanbing Qian, Ao Guan, Yan Yue, Zongyan Li, Bruce Dunn, Jianwei Yang, Shuangshuang Yi, Yi Liao, Junmei Yin   +9 more
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Accomplishing Ethics‐Work as a Generic Social Process

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Existing systems of university research ethics are often criticized by those in the qualitative research tradition. A common thread is that ethics cannot be fully anticipated before the research begins, as is expected by most institutional review boards.
Deana Simonetto, Antony Puddephatt
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of pistil age on pollen tube growth, fruit development and seed set in Cucurbita pepo L.

Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2014
The effects of pistil age on pollen tube growth, fruit development and seed set were studied in Cucurbita pepo L., the flower of which opens for only six hours. Stigma receptivity lasts four days, from one day before until two days after anthesis.
Ettore Pacini, Massimo Nepi
doaj   +1 more source

“Who Is Watching me?”: Recovering the Grammar of Stigma in Interaction

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article offers a praxeological respecification of stigma. I argue that the term “stigma” is a category term and glossing device, used to gather together and stand in for a diverse range of interactional experiences, including, but not limited to, degradation, discrediting, discrimination, marginalization, and being demeaned.
Phil Hutchinson
wiley   +1 more source

Temporal Structuration: Negotiating Reproductive Timing in Urban China

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of temporal structuration to explain how actors engage temporal norms as social structures. Based on 64 life story interviews in Shenzhen and analysed through constructivist grounded theory, it examines reproductive timing in urban China, where marriage and childbearing are organised by a dense timetable ...
Xijia You
wiley   +1 more source

HIV, Stigma, and Rates of Infection: A Rumour without Evidence [PDF]

, 2006
The modern concept of a social stigma comes from the work of American sociologist Erving Goffman, who described it as a response to a deeply discrediting attribute that devalues the person [1].
Daniel D Reidpath, Reidpath, Daniel, Reidpath, DD, Chan, KY, Kit Yee Chan, Chan, Kit Yee   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

The wider network of social relationships and desistance from crime

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Prior research has focused on marriage as a key relationship associated with crime cessation. Yet particularly within the contemporary context, relationships with parents, peers, and other family members may also foster or inhibit progress toward desistance.
Peggy C. Giordano, Jennifer E. Copp, Megan Swinehart, Wendy D. Manning, Monica A. Longmore   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source