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From the predator to the prey: a case study of the vulnerability of Harmonia axyridis to aggressive competitors

Insect Science, EarlyView.
The level of aggressiveness of an individual is a factor that shapes intraguild predation (IGP) interactions. In Nabis americoferus, high aggressiveness leads to an increase in attack rate and IGP against Harmonia axyridis. Moreover, the absence of extraguild prey seems to exacerbate IGP. In docile N.
Pierre Royer, Kent Marcial Catubis, François Dumont, Eric Lucas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Voracity, growth and welfare Voracity, growth and welfare

, 2020
This paper explores some implications of the comparison between feedback Nash and Stackelberg equilibria for growth and welfare in a 'voracity' model.

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Public virtue, private ambition—Women owners of private hospitals in early twentieth‐century New Zealand

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract New Zealand's early‐twentieth‐century health service was a two‐tier system of state hospitals supported by an expanding network of over 300 private hospitals, almost exclusively owned by nurses and midwives. This article will show that this environment was created by a legislative framework introduced between 1901 and 1906, requiring nurses ...
Ann‐Marie Quinn
wiley   +1 more source

Tax voracity: a current phenomenon in Venezuela

, 2022
El sistema tributario de un país lleva implícita la interrelación de diversos elementos que al interactuar, dan lugar a distintos acaecimientos. Entre ellos, pueden suceder hechos tanto positivos como negativos y uno de estos últimos es la génesis de la ...
Gómez Torrealba, Xioely Alejandra, Prince Torres, Ángel Carmelo   +1 more
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Spectral response of guava leaves under infestation by Costalimaita ferruginea (coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Miridae (Hemiptera), Hemerobiidae (Neuroptera), Pentatomidae (Hemiptera), Anystidae (Acari), Erythraeidae (Acari) and spiders (Araneidae, Oxyopidae and Salticidae) fed on the invasive paropsine leaf beetles in Marlborough, New Zealand.
Souradji I. Bachirou, Pedro G. Peixoto, David L. Rosalen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The education and the time of the Other. On conquests and (dis) appropriations.

IXTLI, 2019
Centuries after the Conquest of our America, we continue to be questioned ethically and geopolitically by its scope and meaning; and the voracity of its logic can be extended to the most sensitive dimensions of education.
Daniel Carlos Berisso, María Virginia Bruno   +1 more
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On the voracity of a species of Heterostoma

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales., 1883
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
openaire   +2 more sources

Voracity and growth econsidered [PDF]

, 2008
This article investigates economic performance when enforceable property rights are missing and subsistence needs matter. It shows that if per capita income is sufficiently high, a windfall gain in productivity triggers behavior that leads to higher ...
Strulik, Holger
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
wiley   +1 more source

A Listed Public Heritage or Shopping Mall?

Docomomo Journal
The recognition of 20th-century architecture in Brazil is still a field restricted to specialists, which makes the remaining assets of this collection susceptible to defacement or even destruction.
Renato Alves e Silva
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