Images of India in the Lithuanian press of Catholic missions, 1927–1940 by Laurynas Kudijanovas

“…Based on the articles published in the Jesuit magazine “Misijos” and the Salesian magazine “Saleziečių žinios” in 3rd and 4th decades of the 20th century, three main images that represented India in Lithuania are examined: Indian spirituality and religiosity, social problems of society, primarily the caste system and women’s rights, and finally the ferocious nature of the land. …”
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Impact of ethnicity on the relevance of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) in Nepal by Susmita Pandey

“…Nepal has a distinct alcohol culture, where alcohol use is socially and religiously acceptable in some caste/ethnic groups and is prohibited in others, thereby influencing the scores of AUDIT questions related to all three conceptual domains. …”
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WE INTER-ARE: THE PANDEMIC CHALLENGE REDEFINING HUMANS AND COMMUNITIES by K. Abraham

“…Given that social hierarchies attribute higher and lower status to human beings based on their race, class, caste and gender identity, and legitimise the exploitation of other human beings and the earth, re-thinking our hierarchical positioning as “masters” of this universe becomes imperative. …”
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SEXY CHINKIES IN INDIAN CITIES: CAN WE EMBRACE A SLANT-EYED MARY? by I. Aye

“…It particularly investigates the intersectionalities of caste and race, gender, LGBT, and the older form of anti-Chinese sentiment called the yellowperil myth. …”
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Freedom from Discrimination in Health: Evidence & Pathways by Deepak B Sharma

“…In health sector, discrimination is to be considered as secondary and primarily it occurs because of the universal factors like colour, gender, caste, culture, creed, race, ethnicity, being poverty stricken and in certain occupations. …”
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The Ant Genus Dorymyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) in Colombia by Fabiana Cuezzo, Roberto J. Guerrero

“…We provide a detailed description of these new species based on the worker caste and, where possible, other castes. All localities where Dorymyrmex was collected or cited in the literature were mapped to provide a graphical view of its range.…”
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The Social Organization of Honey Bees by Ashley N. Mortensen, Bryan Smith, James D. Ellis

“…In three pages this fact sheet explains the intricate caste system and age-based division of labor that allows colonies of humankind’s best-loved pollinators to function and thrive. …”
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Smart Phone Based Monitoring of Agricultural Activities by Jiahua Fang

“…Compared to the being IoT grounded husbandry and husbandry results, the propose result reduces network quiescence up to a certain extent. In this, a cross sub caste grounded channel access and routing answer for looking and actuating is proposed. …”
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Strategie pomocy dzieciom ulicy w Jaipurze. Studium przypadku organizacji I-India by Beata Pietkiewicz-Pareek

“…Harmful traditional practices like child labour, child marriage, the caste system, discrimination against girl children impact negatively on children and increase their vulnerability to abuse and neglect. …”
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The Social Organization of Honey Bees by Ashley N. Mortensen, Bryan Smith, James D. Ellis

“…In three pages this fact sheet explains the intricate caste system and age-based division of labor that allows colonies of humankind’s best-loved pollinators to function and thrive. …”
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Gandhi: A Man for our Times? by Judith Brown

“…It also focuses on Gandhi’s critique of Hindu tradition as a powerful buttress of profound social inequality particularly relating to caste and gender; his response to violence in the name of religion and community; and finally his underlying belief that true religion was the individual’s search for the divine and that all religious traditions by contrast have very partial visions of truth. …”
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'Jami Chadiba Nahin' (We Will Not Leave this Land): Materiality and Imagination in Indigenous Land Ethics by Ananya Mishra

“…This is in the hope that the questions might enlighten and reify contemporary concerns in these respective geographical and intellectual locations, complicating the site and probing the intellectual divide between the Global North and the Global South in area studies, to see how Indigenous concerns globally are aligned in the face of a global climate crisis, as they are disproportionately affected due to historical injustices of empire, settler colonial enterprise, caste orders and religious nationalisms. While I draw from American Environmental Studies to situate the materiality of Indigenous philosophies, the essay affirms the enabling mindfulness of metaphors and how they can inform and strengthen material claims in the negotiation for Indigenous political rights in India, and elsewhere, by resisting co-options of Indigeneity that accompany pitfalls of literality. …”
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Historical background and basic elements of the ideal of Chinese traditional management education by M. Yu. Zakharov, A. V. Shishkova

“…Three main elements of the traditional education system are emphasised: concentration of knowledge under control of the national caste of managers; cognitive duality teacher-pupil as the basis of the learning process; stimulation of public education in contrast to home schooling. …”
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The Impact of Religion on Moral Development in Kabale Diocese; A Case Study of Southern Division Kabale Municipality. by Musiimenta, Asia

“…One of the reasons why many people regard religion as an obstacle to moral development is that religious attitudes are commonly thought to be socially conservative, for example, the views of the catholic church about contraception, Islamic views about the role of women and their access to education, or the centrality of caste to Hinduism. The purpose of the study will be to examine the impact of religion on moral development in Kabale Diocese; A case study of southern division Kabale Municipality.…”
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Behavioral Differentiation and Ovarian Development of Unmated Gynes, Queens, and Workers of Ectatomma vizottoi Almeida 1987 (Formicidae, Ectatomminae) by Alexsandro Santana Vieira, Wedson Desidério Fernandes, William Fernando Antonialli-Junior

“…Ovipositing reproductive eggs was an exclusive task of the queen, whereas workers showed 15 caste-specific behaviors. The most important (frequent) behaviors for the queens were brood care, immobility, and reproduction, and for workers were immobility, grooming/interaction, brood care, and foraging. …”
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Centrality of Hygienic Honey Bee Workers in Colony Social Networks by Adrian Perez, Brian R. Johnson

“…Along with important attributes such as age and caste, immunity-related factors such as the performance of sanitary tasks or exposure to a pathogen can also influence an individual’s social interactions and their place in the resulting social network. …”
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SDG-enabled decarbonisation transport pathways for mid-sized Indian cities by Darshini Mahadevia, Saumya Lathia, Chandrima Mukhopadhyay

“…This paper argues that (1) climate mitigation measures in countries like India – with rising income inequality and high social diversity in caste, religion and region – need a tailored assessment approach, (2) carefully mediating climate mitigation measures – like deep decarbonisation – at the local level is crucial to enable transformative change required to meet the Paris Agreement and the UN Agenda 2030, (3) enabling ‘just’ deep decarbonisation or SDG-enabled decarbonisation at the local level requires addressing unmet needs of the vulnerable population even at the cost of increased emissions, and (4) sector-specific decarbonisation strategies at the national level must be translated into the local area’s social, economic, environmental and institutional realities. …”
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Sociodemographic Determinants of Knowledge towards Tuberculosis Transmission among Women of 15–49 Years of Age in India by Baikunth Kumar Yadav, Pranveer Singh, Bijaya Kumar Padhi

“…However, the level of information varies with the various sociodemographic factors such as age group, place of residence, education, wealth index, religion, and caste/tribe bearing a positive causal relationship between the knowledge and TB transmission and hence the resulting attitude.…”
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The multifaceted role of brood communication in wasp societies by Rafael Carvalho da Silva, Fabio Santos do Nascimento, Cintia Akemi Oi

“…Chemical communication provides information about colony identity and an individual's identity, sex and caste, and can help resolve intracolonial conflicts. …”
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The First Workers of the Ant Camponotus obscuripes Are a Different Allometric Morph with Relatively Long Antennae to Communicate with Other Larger Colony Members by Saori Watanabe, Mamoru Terayama, Ryota Kawauchiya, Natsuki Ogusu, Yusuke Fujita, Syunta Mikami, Yuuka Murakami, Eisuke Hasegawa

“…We report here that, in the ant Camponotus obscuripes Mayr, the allometric rules of the nanitics are different from those of other workers in mature colonies, suggesting that the nanitics constitute an independent caste as with soldiers or queens in other species. …”
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