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Syrinx anatomy and vocalizations in New World vultures (Aves: Cathartidae): Implications for avian vocal evolution

open access: yesJournal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
New World vultures are the only avian clade proposed to lack a syrinx and have been described as non‐vocal. Using dissection, diceCT, and histology, we demonstrate that cathartid vultures have novel syringeal features that form a syrinx and vocal characterization reveals that they produce more complex vocalizations than previously reported.
Bradley A. Ibarra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
wiley   +1 more source

An Examination of Cultural Transformation in Türkiye After 1980 in the Context of “Neoliberal Governmentality”

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The January 24 Decisions of 1980 and the subsequent Özal era marked a profound rupture, carrying Türkiye from an import substitution economy to an outward‐oriented, “free‐market” order. Drawing on Michel Foucault's concept of neoliberal governmentality, this study conducts a qualitative, interpretivist discourse analysis of Turgut Özal's ...
Muhammed Salim Danış
wiley   +1 more source

Exploitation or Exploration? Innovation Strategy in Response to Rivals' M&A

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates the impact of rivals' Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) activities on the innovation orientation of firms that are not directly involved in these transactions, hereafter referred to as focal firms. Drawing on the Awareness‐Motivation‐Capability (AMC) framework, we find that rivals' M&A activities positively affect a focal ...
Xin Deng, Huma Javaid, Amon Chizema
wiley   +1 more source

Speaker Perceptions of Americanisms in Nigerian English

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the perceptions of Americanisms among three generations of Nigerians. While prior research has provided quantitative evidence for American influence in contemporary Nigerian English, the role of language beliefs and ideologies in mediating such changes remains underexplored.
Temitayo Olatoye
wiley   +1 more source

Distributed hierarchical filters partition the Danionella vocal repertoire

open access: yes
Henninger J   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Shadow Presence of U.S. Models of Parental Involvement in Postcolonial Multilingual Language and Literacy Reforms in Western Highland Mayan Rural School Districts in Guatemala

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study offers a critique of imperialist relations implicit in U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) pedagogical texts and capacity‐building resources designed to support decolonial Indigenous Mayan language and literacy instruction.
Jennifer F. Reynolds
wiley   +1 more source

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