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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
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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
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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
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Cormac McCarthy’s Aesthet(h)ics of the “Canal-Rhizome” in Suttree
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
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Habitat imprinting in breeding territory selection of a long‐lived bird of prey
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
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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
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Policing as Un‐Breathing and Geographies of Black Breathing in Europe
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
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Gender and Space: Homeworking at the Dining Room Table
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
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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
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