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Beach Buffet: First Observations of White‐Backed Vultures Gyps africanus Feeding on a Cape Fur Seal Arctocephalus pusillus on the Skeleton Coast

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 3, March 2026.
Vultures are specialized scavengers that provide critical ecosystem services by clearing carcasses, though their activity in African coastal environments has previously been limited to only two documented species (i.e., the Lappet‐faced and the Hooded Vultures).
Ruben Portas   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tactics of Evasion

open access: yesSjuttonhundratal, 2020
Legal restrictions on vagrancy and day labour in Iceland became increasingly strict in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, culminating with a decree in 1783 which prohibited any form of masterless labour and proscribed compulsory service on a ...
Vilhelm Vilhelmsson
doaj   +1 more source

Phenological shifts and increases in voltinism within a moth community over a century of anthropogenic change

open access: yesEcology, Volume 107, Issue 3, March 2026.
Abstract In temperate ecosystems, warming temperatures can advance spring phenology, extend autumn phenology, disrupt dormancy regulation, result in phenological mismatch across taxa, and even lead to increases in the number of generations per year (i.e., increases in voltinism).
Emma M. Foster   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cormac McCarthy’s Aesthet(h)ics of the “Canal-Rhizome” in Suttree

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2017
This essay interprets Suttree’s (1979) obsessional themes of vagrancy and in-betweenness, and their aesthetic inscription in the text by resorting to Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s motif of the “canal-rhizome” as developed in Mille plateaux (1980 ...
Marie-Agnès Gay
doaj   +1 more source

Somerset Maugham's Failings

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Allan Hepburn
wiley   +1 more source

Habitat imprinting in breeding territory selection of a long‐lived bird of prey

open access: yesJournal of Animal Ecology, Volume 95, Issue 3, Page 470-481, March 2026.
A unique long‐term dataset has allowed this study of an important habitat selection mechanism, habitat imprinting, in a species which is typically extremely challenging to study. It gives us better understanding of the role of early experience in selection of breeding sites in long‐lived species with high breeding site fidelity.
Ida Penttinen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mujeres Públicas and women in public: Scrutinising the history of prostitution in eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century Mexico

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 86-101, March 2026.
Abstract Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico ...
Nora E. Jaffary, Luis Londoño
wiley   +1 more source

Policing as Un‐Breathing and Geographies of Black Breathing in Europe

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract The nexus of racism and policing has gained much political attention in Europe since the 2020 mass protests that followed the uprisings after the murder of George Floyd in the US. While many protestors signalled solidarity with policed subjects in the US, they also emphasised the role of state violence “at home”.
Vanessa E. Thompson
wiley   +1 more source

Gender and Space: Homeworking at the Dining Room Table

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 669-680, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the construction of professional workspaces within the private sphere of the home and the effect of gender on the spatial construction of such spaces. It focuses on how teleworking from home affects men's and women's ability to make use of spatial resources, including layout, dedicated space, and location, in the ...
Makiko Fuwa
wiley   +1 more source

Anti-democratic and racist legacy of policing misdemeanors: A critical literature review of the broken windows theory

open access: yesEnnen ja Nyt: Historian Tietosanomat
James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling’s broken windows theory has been claimed to change policing in the United States by shifting focus from serious crimes to misdemeanors.
Heini Litmanen
doaj   +1 more source

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