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The Blue Cultural Fix: Water-Spirits and World-Ecology in Jorge Amado’s Mar Morto and Pepetela’s O Desejo de Kianda

Humanities, 2020
Putting Blue Humanities scholarship in critical dialogue with recent research on the ‘cultural fix’ and ‘fixed-labour-power’, this article offers a comparative reading of two Portuguese-language novels in which the figure of the female water-spirit ...
Thomas Waller
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Evaluating the efficacy, impact, and feasibility of community-based house screening as a complementary malaria control intervention in southern Africa: a study protocol for a household randomized trial

Trials, 2021
Background Concerted effort to control malaria has had a substantial impact on the transmission of the disease in the past two decades. In areas where reduced malaria transmission is being sustained through insecticide-based vector control interventions,
Onyango P. Sangoro, Ulrike Fillinger, Kochelani Saili, Theresia Estomih Nkya, Rose Marubu, Freddie Masaninga, Sonia Casimiro Trigo, Casper Tarumbwa, Busiku Hamainza, Candrinho Baltazar, Joseph Mberikunashe, Brian Chisanga, Kassie Menale, Emmanuel Chanda, Clifford Maina Mutero   +14 more
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HOW INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SCHOLARS EXPLAIN THE WORLD: A WORLD-ECOLOGICAL CRITIQUE

Torun International Studies, 2019
The article is an operationalization of a new theoretical-methodological approach to analyzing International Relations discourse. The approach is based on the Critical Theory of International Relations and the concept of world-ecology.
Piotr Walewicz
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Dry Country, Wet City: A World-Ecological Reading of Drought in Thea Astley’s Drylands

Humanities, 2020
Using a postcolonial and world-ecological framework, this article analyses the representation of water as an energy source in Thea Astley’s last and most critically acclaimed novel Drylands (1999).
Ashley Cahillane
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Regulating Desire: The Nature of Exhaustion in Ali Smith’s Hotel World and Ewan Morrison’s Tales from the Mall

Humanities, 2019
This article offers an ecocritical analysis of Ali Smith’s Hotel World (2001) and Ewan Morrison’s Tales from the Mall (2012). Through a combination of the world-ecology paradigm, feminist approaches, and queer theory, I argue that these texts
Michael Paye
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Impact of a livelihood promotion program on income generation and food consumption among ultra-poor households in rural Bangladesh

Global Health Action, 2022
Background Bangladesh has achieved notable economic progress in recent decades while economic inequality increased. Special attention is warranted on the ultra-poor population of the country.
Paige Volpenhein, Hee Sun Kim, Yunjeong Kim, MD. Iqbal Hussein, Jaganmay Biswas, Sunwoo Byun, Yunhee Kang   +6 more
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“The earth seemed unearthly”: capital, world-ecology, and enchanted nature in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness [PDF]

, 2018
This essay reads Heart of Darkness as a world-ecological text, examining themes of socioecological violence, waste, and exhaustion as theorized by the world-ecology paradigm.
Vandertop, Caitlin
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Gut microbiome composition associated with Plasmodium infection in the Eurasian tree sparrow

Journal of Avian Biology, 2023
Recent expansion of microbiome research has uncovered connections between resident microbial communities and blood parasite risk, establishing the potential for microbial disease treatments such as probiotics in the future.
Sage D. Rohrer, Briana Q. Robertson, Lon M. Chubiz, Patricia G. Parker   +3 more
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Pastoral practices, pressures, and human-wildlife relations in high altitude rangelands of eastern Himalaya: A case study of the Dokpa pastoralists of North Sikkim

Pastoralism, 2022
The pastoral practices of the Dokpa herders of North Sikkim have been transforming in response to the geo-political and socio-economic changes in the region.
Nisam Mang Luxom, Rashmi Singh, Laktsheden Theengh, Priyadarshinee Shrestha, Rishi Kumar Sharma   +4 more
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Composition and function of the Galapagos penguin gut microbiome vary with age, location, and a putative bacterial pathogen

Scientific Reports, 2023
Microbial colonization plays a direct role in host health. Understanding the ecology of the resident microbial community for a given host species is thus an important step for detecting population vulnerabilities like disease.
Sage D. Rohrer, Gustavo Jiménez-Uzcátegui, Patricia G. Parker, Lon M. Chubiz   +3 more
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