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Exploiting the drought tolerance of wild Elymus species for bread wheat improvement

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2022
Crop wild resources are excellent sources of new genetic variation for resilience against climate extremes. However, detailed characterization of the desirable phenotypes is essential before using these crop wild resources in breeding programs.
Ajab Khan   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of Metal Contamination and Human Health Risk in the Buffalo River Estuary, Eastern Cape, South Africa

open access: yesEnvironmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Metal contamination in estuarine environments poses environmental and public health concerns, particularly where surface waters support domestic and subsistence uses. This study assessed the seasonal distribution, controlling mechanisms, and non‐carcinogenic health risks of selected metals (Mg, Al, Ba, Fe, Mn, and Zn) in the Buffalo River ...
Motebang D. V. Nakin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
wiley   +1 more source

Lupus Panniculitis Immunoprofiling Reveals a Cytotoxic, Type 1‐Skewed T‐Cell Response With Signs of Metabolic Alteration

open access: yesAllergy, EarlyView.
Imaging mass cytometry shows lupus panniculitis lesions are dominated by cytotoxic and skin‐homing T cells with abundant macrophages and B‐cell aggregates. Spatial neighborhood analysis reveals organized leukocyte architecture, including B‐cell proximity to naïve T cells and M1 macrophages to cytotoxic T cells.
Milad Ameri   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic organisational improvising: Designing flexibility through planned incompleteness

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Traditional perspectives on strategic planning are often grounded in relatively static, overly detailed assumptions and frameworks about futures. Strategic organisational improvising is a critical process for organisations charting a way through complex, rapidly changing environments.
António Cunha Meneses Abrantes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge Work as a Condition of Accumulation in the Pesticide Industry: Syngenta's Defence of Paraquat

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What do pesticide companies do to keep their products on the market despite strong societal and scientific critiques of their environmental and health risks? This paper examines the herbicide paraquat, one of the most controversial pesticides, from the early 1960s to the present.
Kees Jansen
wiley   +1 more source

Re‐Evaluating the Comparison of Four Different Ultrasound Elastography Techniques for Diagnosing Advanced Fibrosis

open access: yes
Portal Hypertension &Cirrhosis, EarlyView.
Zain Ul Abedeen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Immobilization of Silver Nanoparticles with Defensive Gum of Moringa oleifera for Antibacterial Efficacy Against Resistant Bacterial Species from Human Infections

open access: yesPharmaceuticals
Background: The worldwide misuse of antibiotics is one of the main factors in microbial resistance that is a serious threat worldwide. Alternative strategies are needed to overcome this issue.
Liaqat Ali   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Study on Communal Life of Pakhtūn Women in Sīrah Perspective

open access: yesJournal of Islamic and Religious Studies, 2019
Women play a role of paramount importance in the establishment of a distinctive nature of society. Women in Pakhtūn society are regarded with respect and piety. Pakistanis in general and Pakhtūn nation in particular can tolerate monetary losses, owing to
Javed Khan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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