Shaped by context: Evolutionary trajectories of desiccation tolerance in land plants
American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.Abstract Desiccation tolerance (DT), the ability to survive near‐complete cellular dehydration, is widespread in diaspores but rare in the vegetative tissues of land plants. The patchy and punctuated phylogenetic distribution of vegetative desiccation tolerance (VDT) suggests that the trait is both ancient and recurrent, yet the evolutionary ...
Rose A. Marks +2 more
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Does Evolution Explain Human Nature? [PDF]
, 2009 Compiles short essays by twelve scientists and scholars on how well the theory of evolution explains human nature.
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Economic development and Indigenous Australia: contestations over property, institutions and ideology [PDF]
Economic development for remote Indigenous communities cannot be understood unless the relative importance of customary activity, potentially enhanced by native title legal rights in resources, is recognised.
Altman, Jon C.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks +1 more
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Politics and loss in Philip Jeyaretnam's Singaporean fiction [PDF]
, 1998 [Introduction]: Singapore’s Philip Jeyaretnam has now published two well-reviewed novels, a linked collection of short stories, as well as individual stories and reflective essays.
Wicks, Peter
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Perceptions of Factors Leading to Teenage Pregnancy in Lindi Region, Tanzania: A Grounded Theory Study. [PDF]
Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2021 Te Lindert L +5 more
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Dialectical modes of nature in Terrence Malick's 'The Thin Red Line' [PDF]
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Wils, T
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"Plantations in the political economy of colonial sugar production: Natal and Queensland, 1860-1914" [PDF]
, 1979 African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented 27 August, 1979Since 1650 the production of cane sugar for sale in international markets for domestic and industrial consumption has been dominated by the plantation as the unit of production. This form of
Graves, Adrian, Richardson, Peter
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'You're only there on the phone'? A qualitative exploration of community, affect and agential capacity in HIV self-testing using a smartphone app. [PDF]
Sociol Health Illn, 2021 Janssen R +6 more
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