It is cool to be clear: Transparency induces a thermal cost in clearwing butterflies
Functional Ecology, Volume 39, Issue 9, Page 2452-2464, September 2025.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract In butterflies, wing transparency raises the question of potential costs for vital functions, such as thermoregulation. The thermal melanism hypothesis posits that darker colorations enable higher absorption of solar radiation, leading to the prediction that such ...
Violaine Ossola +8 more
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Los tipos de corrupción y la satisfacción con los servicios públicos. Evidencia del caso mexicano
Región y Sociedad, 2017 This article analyzes the effects of how corruption concerning satisfaction with the public services offered by local Mexican governments, such as police protection, public lighting, drinking water, care of parks and gardens and garbage collection, is ...
Jassel Córdova Guzmán, Aldo F. Ponce
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Philanthropy and the Third Sector in Mexico: The Enabling Environment and Its Limitations [PDF]
, 2009 Why is Mexico's third sector underdeveloped? Despite the importance of this question, there is no persuasive answer. The usual mono-causal explanations –such as historical trajectory or lack of civic culture– are inadequate.
Michael D. Layton
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Escribir en comunidad: Construcción de relaciones y responsabilidad en la producción de conocimiento
American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 447-465, September 2025.ABSTRACT As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subdiscipline, is a social endeavor. Yet research often remains an isolating (though not necessarily solitary) process, even within research teams and
Jordi Armani Rivera Prince +16 more
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¿Fomentan las democracias conductas de procura de rentas? [PDF]
(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) Empleando datos históricos institucionales objetivos, ponemos a prueba el vínculo existente entre el alcance, la duración y la transparencia en las democracias y las conductas de procura de rentas, empleando ...
Alberto Chong, César Calderón
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Reporte: Ranking de Portales Estatales de Transparencia 2017 [PDF]
, 2017 El Ranking de Portales Estatales de Transparencia (RPET) se lleva a cabo desde el 2006. Este documento reporta los resultados obtenidos en el 2017. En esta ocasión presenta dos novedades.
Sandoval Almazan, Rodrigo
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African voices and their role in improving north–south collaborations for biodiversity conservation
Conservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 4, August 2025.Abstract While the dominance of policies from the Global North has shaped conservation practices, holistic decision‐making is urgently needed to incorporate more local voices, especially in Africa. Effective conservation strategies may be enhanced by incorporating the expertise and resources of the Global North alongside the knowledge, lived ...
Kudzai Shaun Mpakairi +10 more
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Transparencia y rendición de cuentas en la filantropía y la inversión social privada [PDF]
, 2015 Esta Caja de herramientas intenta informar a las organizaciones de apoyo que sirven a la filantropía respecto de los elementos esenciales de la transparencia y la rendición de cuentas para la filantropía y la inversión social privada.
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Spatial capture‐recapture can improve environmental impact assessments for large carnivores
Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 6, Issue 3, July–September 2025.Most Environmental Impact Assessments for large carnivores rely on summary statistics or relative abundance indices, all of which ignore imperfect detection and may lead to biased and unreliable conclusions about population status and infrastructure impacts. By applying spatial capture‐recapture (SCR) models to georeferenced genetic data from wolves in
Gonçalo Ferrão da Costa +3 more
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La transparencia y el acceso a la información a nivel local: el caso del municipio de Metepec, Estado de México [PDF]
, 2012 El objetivo del presente artículo es conocer el alcance que ha tenido la política de transparencia a nivel local en México, tomando como estudio de caso el municipio de Metepec y apoyándonos en las aproximaciones teóricas actuales sobre la rendición de ...
HERAS GOMEZ, LAURA LETICIA +3 more
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