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Natural Resources, Democracy and Corruption [PDF]

We study how natural resources can feed corruption and how this effect depends on the quality of the democratic institutions. Our game-theoretic model predicts that natural resources lead to an increase in corruption if the quality of the democratic ...
Sambit Bhattacharyya, Roland Hodler
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Evaluating Sawdust as a Bulking Agent to Enhance Black Soldier Fly Larvae (Hermetia illucens) Performance and Survival in Potato Peels

Journal of Applied Entomology, Volume 150, Issue 5, Page 682-689, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The rearing of black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) offers a sustainable approach for producing high‐protein larvae for animal feed, contributing to waste reduction and nutrient recovery. While BSFL‐rearing is well studied, the role of non‐nutritive bulking agents such as sawdust remains unclear. Sawdust was added on top of the base substrate at 0%
Consol Kubayi, Xavier Brits, Stefan Hendrik Foord, Lourens Hendrik Swanepoel   +3 more
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Catherine de' Medici and the Forest of Orleans: Queenly Participation in Early Modern French Forest Management

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 507-531, June 2026.
Abstract This essay demonstrates how a gender‐informed, more‐than‐human lens can provide new ways to analyse how the role of a queen in forestry management was conceptualised by sixteenth‐century professional men. It explores these ideas as they are presented in a work published by Guillaume Martin, Lieutenant General of the forests and waterways of ...
Susan Broomhall
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Asylum as Artifice: Race, Law and Capital as Regimes of Abstraction in the United Kingdom's Asylum Accommodation System

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Taking as its case study the category of the ‘asylum seeker’ in UK law, this paper develops on latent concerns in legal geographies with processes of abstraction. Following Bhandar and Toscano, race, law and capital are here understood as different, co‐articulating modalities of abstraction, through which the ‘asylum seeker’ is constituted and
Anna Pearce
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal Dutch Disease [PDF]

Growth models of the Dutch disease, such as those of Krugman (1987), Matsuyama (1992), Sachs and Warner (1995) and Gylfason et al. (1999), explain why resource abundance may reduce growth. However, the literature also raises a new question: if the use of
Ragnar Torvik, Egil Matsen
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Beyond spider personality: The relationships between behavioral, physiological, and environmental factors. [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2021
Hernández Duran L, Wilson DT, Briffa M, Rymer TL.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Optimizing Artificial Diet Composition for Enhanced Development and Fertility of <i>Amblyseius swirskii</i>. [PDF]

Insects
Alpysbayeva K, Adilkhankyzy A, Seitzhan A, Anuarbekov K, Naimanova B, Turbekova S.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Real Income Stagnation of Countries, 1960-2001 [PDF]

This paper examines the phenomenon of real-income stagnation (in which real-income growth is negligible or negative for a sizable uninterrupted sequence of years). It analyzes data for four decades from a large cross-section of countries.
Camelia Minoiu, Sanjay G. Reddy
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Unveiling the Hidden Feast: A Model to Translate Molecular Detection Into Predation Rate-Application Example on Biological Control by Generalist Predators in Agricultural Fields. [PDF]

Mol Ecol Resour
Masson A, Rastello K, Sacco-Martret de Préville A, Tricault Y, Poggi S, Canard E, Etienne MP, Plantegenest M.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source