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

European 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
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The Rhythmic and the Metronomic: On Charlie Chaplin's Gait

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Matthew Beaumont
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Phantom citations: An empirical study of non‐existent and unverifiable references in scholarly literature

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 77, Issue 10, Page 1287-1316, October 2026.
Abstract The integrity of scholarly communication depends critically on the accuracy and verifiability of cited references. Citations enable readers to trace prior work, assess evidence, and situate new contributions within the existing literature. However, concerns have emerged regarding the presence of references in published papers that cannot be ...
Chengcheng Han, Sathiamoorthy Manoharan, Xinfeng Ye, Ulrich Speidel   +3 more
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The influence of population growth and wind on vagrancy in a North American passerine [PDF]

, 2019
Understanding the causes of vagrancy among migratory bird species is of increasing importance as climate change threatens species' survival. Vagrancy may serve to safeguard populations from environmental change through expansion of their geographic ...
Veit, RR, Zawadzki, Lucinda, Manne, LL, Zawadzki, LC   +3 more
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Flight of the dragons: a global review of migration in Odonata

Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 5, Page 2134-2157, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Insects are the most abundant and ecologically important animal migrants. Yet, we know relatively little about the patterns and processes underlying insect migration. Dragonflies (Anisoptera) and damselflies (Zygoptera) comprise the ancient insect order Odonata, whose ancestors were the first organisms to fly on Earth.
Johanna S.U. Hedlund, Myles Menz, Jason W. Chapman, Alexander Hayward   +3 more
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Continental‐wide prioritization of protected areas to address global and habitat‐specific goals for avian biodiversity conservation

Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 5, October 2026.
Abstract The United Nations and European Union have set ambitious conservation goals to halt and reverse declines in biodiversity by protecting 30% of land and sea areas by 2030. Effective conservation planning requires evidence‐based spatial prioritization to maximize the coverage of species within designated protected areas.
Yanjie Xu, Diego Pavón‐Jordán, Tyler Hallman, Tristan R. M. Bakx, Lluís Brotons, Sergi Herrando, Alison Johnston, Brett K. Sandercock, Thomas Sattler, Alaaeldin Soultan, Vitalie Ajder, Dawn E. Balmer, Brian Burke, Thiago Cavalcante, Tomasz Chodkiewicz, Ruud P. B. Foppen, Anthony D. Fox, Verena Keller, Tatiana Kornienko, Peter Knaus, Heini Kujala, Åke Lindström, Qenan Maxhuni, Károly Nagy, Ingar Jostein Øien, Tomas Pärt, Dimitrije Radišić, Draženko Z. Rajković, Iván Ramirez, Paul Shimmings, Karel Šťastný, Thomas Vikstrøm, Tomasz Wilk, Aleksi Lehikoinen   +33 more
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Underestimation of avian diversity in the Tumbesian hotspot: Sampling gaps and conservation challenges

Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 8, Issue 10, October 2026.
This study provides the first comprehensive reassessment of avian diversity in the Tumbesian region in over 30 years, documenting 931 species and identifying significant sampling gaps driven by geographic accessibility. We reveal a critical misalignment between biodiversity value and current protection coverage, particularly in humid forests which ...
Anabel Cueva‐Agila, Leonardo Ordóñez‐Delgado, María Fernanda Tapia‐Armijos, Carlos Iván Espinosa   +3 more
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Anti-democratic and racist legacy of policing misdemeanors: A critical literature review of the broken windows theory

Ennen 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
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Darwin's Naturalization Conundrum in the Azores: Scale‐Dependent Patterns of Arthropod Invasion

Diversity and Distributions, Volume 32, Issue 10, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Aim To test the mechanisms governing the assembly of exotic arthropods within endemic‐rich island communities by evaluating Darwin's naturalization conundrum, which predicts that invasion success occurs through either functional dissimilarity from native species (Naturalization Hypothesis) or functional similarity with them (Pre‐adaptation ...
Guilherme Oyarzabal, Pedro Cardoso, François Rigal, Mário Boieiro, Ana M. C. Santos, Isabel R. Amorim, Jagoba Malumbres‐Olarte, Ricardo Costa, Sébastien Lhoumeau, Gábor Pozsgai, Rosalina Gabriel, Paulo A. V. Borges   +11 more
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emale displacement phenomenon between dispersion and incorporation A field study in Female Training House - Baghdad Wasan mohsin hasan

مجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2019
Vagrancy is global problem, but its geographical distribution differs from one society to another and from one place to another inside the same society.
وسن محسن حسن
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