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Voices of Elementary Teachers: Why Science Instruction Is Nearing Extinction
School Science and Mathematics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT National survey data dating to the 1980 has pointed to a lack of science instruction provided to United States elementary students. With changing social, technical, and political landscapes, more research is warranted. This study utilized qualitative methods to drill deeper into the decision making of late first‐quarter 21st century elementary
Molly Weinburgh
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Re‐evaluating the Rise of Anglophone Malaysian Historical Fiction in the Twenty‐First Century
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since the turn of the century, anglophone Malaysian historical fiction has gained significant global recognition, so much so that it has become the dominant genre. However, notwithstanding this enviable evolution in the country's English‐language literature, it is not without issues, due to the genre's somewhat orientalist representation of ...
Andrew Hock Soon Ng
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Can Repeated Reductive Genome Evolution Across Archaeplastida Explain Volatility in Traits?
Advanced Genetics, Volume 7, Issue 4, December 2026.Genome evolution in Archaeplastida is often framed around gene gains and increasing complexity. Yet ancestral reconstructions reveal recurrent genome contraction, with ancestors frequently harboring larger gene repertoires than descendants. Across red algae, land‐plant ancestry, and embryophyte diversification, repeated expansion and reduction cycles ...
Cäcilia F. Kunz +3 more
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 4, December 2026.Short Abstract This paper contributes to conceptual debates on ruins by generating novel insights into how encounters with the haunted materialities of ruins in the field inform (post)colonial trajectories of exploration. Empirically, it examines how material and spectral traces of past lives in the field, alongside play with categories of absence and ...
Johanne M. Bruun
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First Report of Cherry Leafroll Virus Infecting Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima)
Diseases Caused by VirusesSupport for this research was provided by USDA-ARS project 8062-22410-007-00D to Michelle Heck.This note is published as Olmedo-Velarde, Alejandro, Melanie Tannieres, Javid Kashefi, Hayk Shakhzadyan, Damien Breugnot, and ...
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Real and Apparent Deviations From Rational Choice
Kyklos, Volume 79, Issue 4, Page 1153-1178, November 2026.ABSTRACT This paper offers a taxonomy of real and apparent deviations from rationality. The taxonomy is based on three axes of divides—whereas the axes are successive refinements. The outermost‐axis divide delineates “anxiety‐based choices” from “anxiety‐free choices.” Anxiety‐based choices are real deviations such as the Allais and Ellsberg paradoxes ...
Elias L. Khalil
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 838-852, November 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Revised Computer Programs for Tree-Ring Research
, 1979 Three computer programs that are basic to the processing and development of tree -ring chronologies are now available. They were designed to refine and replace older programs that were previously furnished by the laboratory.
Graybill, Donald A.
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 865-883, November 2026.ABSTRACT This article contributes to the history of material culture and intellectual biography by definitively identifying the Paduan scholar Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582) as the author of the annotations found in a 1535 copy of Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum geometricarum currently preserved in Vicenza.
Laura Moretti
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