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Trapped in the web: network architectures spread coevolution and shape adaptation
Oikos, EarlyView.Adaptation is critical for biodiversity to persist under global change. Within ecological communities, species often face tradeoffs between adapting to shifting abiotic conditions and navigating the complex selective pressures imposed by interaction networks.
Alexandre Fuster‐ Calvo +5 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) offers strong potential for sustainable development in low‐income regions, yet its enterprises often operate with scarce resources, weak monitoring systems, and limited visibility. These constraints hinder both their capacity to demonstrate contributions to sustainable development (SD) and their own ...
Maria‐del‐Mar Magallón +1 more
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Contract Farming and Children's Education: Evidence From Maize Producers in Ghana
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming (CF) has continued to proliferate in the small farm sector of developing countries. While its effects on smallholders across welfare outcomes such as income and food security have been well documented, there are growing concerns about its broader social implications especially on children.
Francis E. Ndip +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers remain structurally excluded from the current agricultural finance system. Existing research in this area examines financial inclusion through fragmented environmental, social, and economic lenses, limiting system‐level understanding.
Vaibhav Aggarwal +2 more
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Repositioning within indigenous discourses of transformation and self-determination
, 2008 This thesis reflectively and critically examines a series of research case studies initiated by a research-whānau. It explores the thinking, experiences and reflections of this research-whānau, as they worked to enhance the educational achievement of ...
Berryman, Mere
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System as a Unifying Process: An Onto‐Epistemic Notion of System
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article proposes an onto‐epistemic notion of system as a relational process of unifying a multiplicity of actuals and abstractions into an actual unity, thereby encompassing concreteness and abstraction onto the same plane. This notion rejects the opposition between constructivism and realism within systems studies, the excessive focus on
Felipe Rodrigues Oliveira e Silva +1 more
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Contrastive Self‐Categorization as a Resource for Defending Cultural Stereotypes
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This study explores how speakers defend morally sanctionable cultural stereotypes from challenges in adult second language classrooms. Within the conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis frameworks, I examine two extended video‐recorded class discussions in which students maintain face‐threatening, stereotypical portrayals of ...
Nadja Tadic
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I analyze the co‐constitution of race and neoliberalism within the discourse of an English language classroom. Appealing to modernist/colonial histories of race and capital, I first examine how racial neoliberalism produces a normalized, unmarked subject‐position through the conflation of moral responsibility with human ...
Justin Lance Pannell
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Knowledge-intensive firms : configuration or community? [PDF]
This thesis is a study into the nature of knowledge-intensive firm defined here as professional service firms providing tailored services to corporate clients and relying heavily on the problem solving capacity of their employees.
McGrath, Paul G.
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Social organization and habitat use shape the gut microbiome of a marine fish
Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.This study provides the first evidence linking habitat use—and to a lesser extent social organization—to gut microbiome composition in a wild marine fish. The results indicate that local habitat conditions are the primary driver of microbial variation, while social effects are detectable but weak.
Aina Pons +7 more
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