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Belonging's Belongings: Sunni Waqfs and the Limits of Community in Beirut

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 48, Issue 1, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Lebanon is often described as being plagued by interreligious conflict among the country's eighteen religious communities. Since the mid‐2000s, with the political dominance of Shiʿi Hezbollah, Sunni‐Shiʿi tensions have been particularly acrimonious in multireligious Beirut.
Nada Moumtaz
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Areawide management of fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), using selected cover crop plants

CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, 2022
Background Fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) is a migratory moth that annually migrates northward each spring from sites in southern Florida and southern Texas.
Robert L. Meagher, Rodney N. Nagoshi, Shelby J. Fleischer, John K. Westbrook, David L. Wright, J. Bradley Morris, James T. Brown, Amy J. Rowley   +7 more
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Nitrogen losses mitigated with maize–legume intercropping in the Yucatan Peninsula

Agrosystems, Geosciences &Environment, Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2025.
Abstract In recent years, nitrate leaching and environmental impacts from agriculture have become global issues, due in part to the increased use of nitrogen (N) fertilizers in agriculture. In the Yucatan Peninsula, intercropping is a traditional farming practice known as the “Milpa” system (i.e., a traditional farming practice characterized by the ...
Jacques Fils Pierre, Carrie A. M. Laboski, Luis Latournerie‐Moreno, René Garruña, Krista L. Jacobsen, Esaú Ruiz‐Sánchez   +5 more
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Evaluation of Resistance of Wheat Promising Lines to Eurygaster integriceps in Neyshabur Climatic Conditions [PDF]

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IntroductionThe Sunn pest (Eurygaster integriceps Put) is a significant pest of wheat in Turkey, west and central Asia, and Iran. Damage caused by this pest to leaves, stems, spikes, and grains can reduce the baking quality of flour made from affected ...
shahab Jahandari, GhorbanAli Asadi, Soroor Khorramdel, Davood Roodi   +3 more
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PCR-based characterisation of entomopathogenic fungi for ecological studies [PDF]

, 2008
The implementation of PCR-based tools for characterisation of organisms has greatly advanced our understanding of the phylogenies and species boundaries in entomopathogenic fungi, especially the widespread taxa Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium ...
Meyling, Nicolai V.
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Yield and Economic Performance of Organic and Conventional Cotton-Based Farming Systems – Results from a Field Trial in India [PDF]

, 2013
The debate on the relative benefits of conventional and organic farming systems has in recent time gained significant interest. So far, global agricultural development has focused on increased productivity rather than on a holistic natural resource ...
A Aris, A Fliessbach, A Gattinger, A Trewavas, AE Lyngbaek, AJ Trewavas, B Crost, C Badgley, CA Watson, Christian Andres, Christine Zundel, D Blaise, D Glover, D Pimentel, Dionys Forster, F Bachmann, F Eyhorn, G Brookes, G Gruere, G Rasul, G Vanloqueren, GD Stone, H Azadi, J Kathage, J Valkila, JE Carpenter, Jean-Marc Lacape, JP Reganold, JP Reganold, JR Teasdale, K Birkhofer, KS Qaim M, L Carpenter-Boggs, L Nelson, M Marvier, MA Altieri, Monika M. Messmer, MV Venugopalan, NE Borlaug, P Mäder, P Panneerselvam, P Panneerselvam, P Ramesh, Paul Mäder, R Bennett, R Finger, R Makita, Rajeev Verma, RB Singh, RJ Herring, RJ Herring, RJ Singh, S Konduru, SL Swezey, T de Ponti, TM Loughin, V Seufert, VE Mendez, VV Krishna   +58 more
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Mechanical properties of hemp fiber‐reinforced thermoset and thermoplastic polymer composites: A comprehensive review

SPE Polymers, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2025.
Overview of the stages in hemp fiber development and applications: from extraction and chemical treatment to composite fabrication, moisture absorption effects, and applications. Abstract Hemp fibers have mechanical characteristics similar to those of synthetic fibers, which makes them an attractive material for producing environmentally friendly ...
Shahidul Islam, Md. Byzed Hasan, Marija Kodrić, K. Z. M. Abdul Motaleb, Fahmida‐E‐ Karim, Md. Redwanul Islam   +5 more
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Wolbachia infection in Trissolcus species (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae)

European Journal of Entomology, 2012
Wolbachia is a maternally transmitted intracellular symbiont which causes reproductive distortions in the arthropods it infects. In recent years there has been an increasing interest in using Wolbachia as a potential tool for biological control by ...
Nurper GUZ, Erhan KOCAK, A. AKPINAR, M. Oktay GURKAN, A. Neset KILINCER   +4 more
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Rolled‐crimped cover crops for organic no‐till planted winter wheat (Triticum aestivum) in the Northeast region of the United States

Agrosystems, Geosciences &Environment, Volume 7, Issue 4, December 2024.
Abstract Mulch from cover crops can suppress weeds and facilitate organic no‐till corn and soybean production. However, research is lacking on the no‐till planting small grain crops into rolled‐crimped cover crops. An experiment was conducted to test the effects of no‐till planting winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) into five cover crops planted in ...
Matthew R. Ryan, Terry J. Rose, Sandra Wayman, Christopher J. Pelzer, Uriel D. Menalled   +4 more
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Why is there no impact of the host species on the cold tolerance of a generalist parasitoid? [PDF]

, 2017
For generalist parasitoids such as those belonging to the Genus Aphidius, the choice of host species can have profound implications for the emerging parasitoid. Host species is known to affect a variety of life history traits.
Alford, Lucy, Burel, Françoise, Kishani Farahani, Hossein, Pierre, Jean-Sébastien, van Baaren, Joan   +4 more
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