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Conceptualizing the Street‐Level Bureaucrat Construct

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Differences among street‐level bureaucrats—across professions, institutional settings, regions, and countries—are largely overlooked in research. We propose conceptualizing the street‐level bureaucrat construct as a general variable that varies across institutional settings, professions, cultures, times, and locations. We analyze variations in
Faisal S. Cheema, Euipyo Lee, Rajneesh Gupta, James L. Perry   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Empowering rural revitalization in China with GAI: the application value, challenges, and optimization paths

Cogent Food & Agriculture
In the context of China’s path to modernization, rural revitalization is facing a new landscape of “technology empowerment.” Generative artificial intelligence (GAI), with its powerful text generation capabilities, continuous human-machine interaction ...
Xuwen Liu
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Stabilising Routines in Complex Emergencies: How Basic Service Continuity Shapes Perceived Security

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how locally embedded actors describe the relationship between basic service continuity and perceived security in complex emergencies, with particular attention to the stabilisation of everyday routines. Using Proximity‐Predictability‐Attributability (PPA) as an analytic lens, we trace how interviewees relate access to water,
Abdullah Gökhan Yaşa, Orçun İmga
wiley   +1 more source

Remaking place relations for social‐ecological restoration: Reflections on placemaking in South Africa

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecological restoration is an ongoing relational process involving interconnected reciprocal social and biophysical interactions that shift and change over time and space. Conceptual literature proposes that placemaking can deepen and enhance the understanding and implementation of social‐ecological restoration processes as part of broader ...
Ancois de Villiers, Karen J. Esler, Jessica Cockburn, Marja Spierenburg   +3 more
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People are good at stewardship

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Environmental sciences and policy have long been framed on the premise that environmental harm is an expression of human nature rather than a product of specific historical and political arrangements. This framing has shaped a generation of interventions designed to constrain human behaviour rather than enable human capacity.
Philip A. Loring, Miguel Sioui
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Enhance food plant diversity conservation and use through greater coordination between genebanks and botanic gardens

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Food plants are vital to human and planetary health, but their diversity is threatened, making food security, nutrition, and environmental goals more difficult to achieve. Food plant diversity conservation, research, and education can be enhanced through collaboration between sectors, including genebanks and botanic gardens, which possess complementary
Colin K. Khoury, Sarah Gora, Hannes Dempewolf, Mauricio Diazgranados, Alex C. McAlvay, Vania Azevedo, Sam Brockington, Ángela Cano, Daniel Carver, Carly Cowell, Peter Crane, Cary Fowler, Peter Giovannini, Luigi Guarino, Robbie Hart, Geoff Hawtin, Sarada Krishnan, Charlotte Lusty, Patricia Malcolm, Nan McCarry, Abby Meyer, Allison Miller, Ray Mims, Tara Moreau, Arshiya Noorani, Susan K. Pell, Juan Lucas Restrepo, Erin C. Riordan, Stefan Schmitz, Paul Smith, Charles Spillane, Alvaro Toledo, Raakel Toppila, Maarten van Zonneveld, Emily Warschefsky, Peter Wenzl   +35 more
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Two centuries of Begonia exploration in the Philippines: Progress and challenges associated with a megadiverse genus in the Global South

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Megadiverse genera represent the highest concentration of plant diversity, but these plants are also located primarily in countries in the Global South where huge gaps in botanical knowledge remain. This study summarized two centuries of Begonia collection records in the Philippines to show how historical events coincide with collection and taxonomic ...
Mark Angelo C. Bucay, EB Perez‐Bellen, Marjorie D. Delos Angeles, Danilo N. Tandang, Rosario R. Rubite, Kuo‐Fang Chung   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of insecticide use practices in licensed pest control operators in North Carolina

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
A statewide survey of 105 licensed North Carolina pesticide operators found ants, mosquitoes, and aphids as top target pests, pyrethroids as the dominant insecticide class (68%), and limited resistance monitoring, establishing a baseline for future insecticide resistance management and outreach.
Kaylin Russell, Stephanie Richards, Sinan Sousan, Jo Anne Balanay   +3 more
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Importance of Blue–Green Infrastructure in the Spatial Development of Post-Industrial and Post-Mining Areas: The Case of Piekary Śląskie, Poland

Land
Post-industrial and post-mining areas are an important element of cities historically associated with industrial activity. The transformation of degraded areas is a challenge for spatial policy, which is characterized by a substantial impact on the ...
Iwona Kantor-Pietraga, Aleksandra Zdyrko-Bednarczyk, Jakub Bednarczyk   +2 more
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Integrating Image Segmentation and Deep Learning to Improve Radio Frequency Propagation Models

International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper proposes a multi‐sensor approach to improve radio frequency (RF) propagation models, which play a key role in the rapidly expanding field of connected vehicle technology. Focusing on the 1‐ to 20‐GHz frequency range, which is critical for both satellite‐to‐vehicle and base station‐to‐vehicle communications, our study introduces a ...
Jonathan Israel, Xavier Boulanger, Vegard Arneson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source