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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might. [PDF]

Ann N Y Acad Sci
Atran S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Development and Assessment of Fluorescent‐Dyed, Preserved Invasive Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) Eggs as Surrogates for Live Eggs in Transport and Dispersal Control Experiments

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Invasive species such as grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) pose substantial ecological threats to North American freshwater ecosystems. Understanding their early life stage behavior is critical for management efforts. From spawning to hatching, invasive carp eggs must remain suspended in the water column while drifting downstream for the ...
Henry F. Doyle, Benjamin H. Stahlschmidt, Anne M. Herndon, Vindhyawasini Prasad, Amy E. George, Jesse R. Fischer, P. Ryan Jackson, Cory D. Suski, Rafael O. Tinoco   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lacking data? No worries! How synthetic images can alleviate image scarcity in wildlife surveys: A case study with muskox (Ovibos moschatus)

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
This study investigates the integration of synthetic imagery, created with diffusion‐based models, to supplement limited training data and improve muskox (Ovibos moschatus) detection in zero‐shot (ZS) and few‐shot (FS) settings. ZS models detected more than 80% of muskoxen in real images, confirming the potential of synthetic data as a substitute for ...
Simon Durand, Samuel Foucher, Alexandre Delplanque, Joëlle Taillon, Jérôme Théau   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Epistemic Objects and Tools on the School Grounds: Addressing Plant Blindness and Knowledge Construction

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Plants mediate the supply of energy and matter for all animals, including human beings yet we are faced with “plant blindness” whereby we pay limited attention to and accord little value to plants. Plant blindness is evident in school curricula whereby students have limited opportunities to learn about plants.
Maurice M. W. Cheng, Bronwen Cowie
wiley   +1 more source

Forced to Live: Controlled Forced Feeding of Political Prisoners and the Challenge to Nation-States' Civilising Processes. [PDF]

Br J Sociol
Vertigans S, Connolly J, Dolan P.
europepmc   +1 more source

Prisoners' Perceptions and Their Agency on Sustainability Transformation in Finland

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability transformation is essential for our time, requiring the involvement of all citizens. Several prisons worldwide have developed various sustainable development (SD) programs for prisoners. However, it remains unclear how prisoners perceive SD, which can be a significant obstacle to their agency. This study explores the perceptions
Sirpa M. Manninen, Teija Makkonen
wiley   +1 more source

Self-Harm and Suicidal Behavior Among Prisoners in South Asia: A Narrative Review. [PDF]

Health Sci Rep
Arafat SMY, Kar SK.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sectoral Evolution and Structural Transformation in Djibouti: A Multivariate and Regularized Regression Analysis Toward Achieving SDG 9

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Djibouti's economic evolution over the past two decades reveals a distinct dual structure: a steadily expanding service sector that anchors the economy and a volatile industrial sector driven by episodic, foreign‐financed infrastructure projects.
Sadik Aden Dirir
wiley   +1 more source

Insects as disease vectors: Historical and contemporary analysis of entomological warfare. [PDF]

Ambio
Khalil A, Abdelgawad S, El-Hareef AA, Maatouk AA, Genaidy LM, Yassin NYS, Salem AM.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source