Anatomy of the endemic palms of the Near and Middle East: archaeobotanical perspectives by Romain Thomas

“…Since the Bronze Age, these palms are an essential plant resource for the populations of the hot deserts of these regions. Stems of Phoenix and Hyphaene are used as building materials in architectural work (beams and pillars) and in rare cases as fuel. …”
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"Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum": An Emerging Pathogen Infecting Potato and Tomato by Binoy Babu, Mathews L. Paret, Nicholas Dufault, Carrie L. Harmon

“…L. solanacearum” has been reported in several states, though it has not been detected in Florida, which is the second largest producer of tomatoes and seventh largest producer of potatoes in the US. …”
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Theologische hermeneutiek en de postmoderne uitdaging by Willem J. Ouweneel

“…Foucault and Lyotard have pointed out the social circumstances, power games, mental self-deception and prejudices that play a role in our views. …”
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Role of serotonin in physiology and diseases of gastro-intestinal tract by E. F. Barinov, O. N. Sulayeva

“…Authors discuss receptor-specific effects of serotonin on blood-tissue barriers of GIT, synaptic transmission, regulation of local and systemic afferentation, motility of the stomach and intestine, and mechanisms of defense. Immunomodulating role of serotonin realized by modulation of cytokine secretion of dendritic cells and lymphocytes is demonstrated.…”
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Granulate Ambrosia Beetle, Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Motschulsky) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) by Thomas H. Atkinson, John L. Foltz, Robert C. Wilkinson, Russell F. Mizell

“…The granulate ambrosia beetle is a minute ambrosia beetle of Asian origin that was first detected near Charleston, South Carolina. It can become abundant in urban, agricultural, and forested areas and has been reported as a pest of nursery stock and young trees in the Old World tropics and of peach trees in South Carolina. …”
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Imaginaires de nature sauvage dans la théorie et la pratique de Gilles Clément by Camilla Barbero

“…A nature the traits of which are untamed and shapeless takes over brownfields, urban wastelands and urban interstices, and contradicts such images as those of the deserts and ruins produced by our technological power. …”
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Le Flaubert de Charles Du Bos by Jacques Neefs

“…The connection between his essay “Sur le milieu intérieur chez Flaubert”, written in 1921, and extracts from his Journal, from 1923 to 1937, the comparisons with Gogol, Thomas Hardy, Tolstoy, Baudelaire, and Henry James that run through the writings of Du Bos, allow us to follow what he terms “the spiritual experience” of a materiality encompassed in the conquest of the triple demand of the Beautiful, the Living, the Truth. Du Bos detects the power of Flaubert’s work in the “disproportion” of his style, and the power of absorption that forms the density of his prose, showing an extraordinary process of conversion. …”
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A Bombardier Beetle Pheropsophus aequinoctialis (L.) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae) by Gregory Parrow, Adam Dale

“…Ground beetles of this tribe are commonly referred to as bombardier beetles due to their ability to produce a powerful and hot defensive chemical spray directed at would-be predators. …”
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Le LiDAR : vers une meilleure connaissance des paysages du karst by Kamila Bensaadi, Anne Hecker

“…The advent of new tools, such as Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) equipment, has changed the situation. …”
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Dichroic mirror pulses for optimized higher-order atomic Bragg diffraction by D. Pfeiffer, M. Dietrich, P. Schach, G. Birkl, E. Giese

“…Our approach selectively reflects resonant atom paths into the detected interferometer output, ensuring that these contribute to the signal with intent. …”
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Field Corn Production Problems: A Diagnostic Guide by David Wright, Jim Rich

“…For any corrective action to be successful, early detection is essential. This document is SS-AGR-200, a publication of the Department of Agronomy, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Pillbug, Roly-Poly, Woodlouse Armadillidium vulgare (Latreille) (Malacostraca: Isopoda: Armadillidiidae) by Julie A. Franklin, Morgan A. Byron, Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman

“…It is called a roly-poly because it rolls into ball when disturbed. This defensive behavior also makes it look like a pill, which is why it is sometimes called a pillbug. …”
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Horn Fly Management by Phillip E. Kaufman, Emma N. I. Weeks

“…Pain and irritation due to the constant presence of the flies and their bites causes defensive behavior in the cattle that prevents adequate food consumption and rest. …”
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The role of violence in the classics of Brazilian Social Thought by Bruno de Souza Lessa, Jaqueline Silinske

“…By analyzing how the issue was treated in Casa-Grande & Senzala, Raízes do Brasil, and Formação do Brasil Contemporâneo, we aimed at defending the argument that, although the emergence of violence appears to be, to certain common sense, a new phenomenon, its widespread employment has been an integrative element of social interactions in Brazil, but is mainly used against more vulnerable segments of society. …”
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Crapemyrtle Bark Scale Acanthococcus (=Eriococcus) lagerstroemiae (Kuwana) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Eriococcidae) by Matthew Borden, Xavier Martini, Adam G. Dale

“…At that time, early detection and treatment will be critical to minimize further spread within the state. …”
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Dimenzioniranje cevi artiljerijskog oruđa pomoću računara by Ljubiša Tančić

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Em busca de um tema esquecido: o lugar da educação nas recentes interpretações do Brasil by Marcos Cezar de Freitas, Luciano Mendes de Faria Filho

“…To do so, we chose a group of works published from the end of the twentieth century, time when commemorations / discussions about the 500 anniversary of the “Discovery” have been built up until the year 2015 when an Economic Crisis has been installed and resulted in the ousting of the Dilma Roussef from the Republic Presidency. The article defends that, if, throughout the twentieth century, access to education was “Panacea” for all the evils in the country, in the twenty-first century, interpreting Brazil became an exercise that allows us to approach the permanence of those who have got to school, increasing the focus of access for inclusion, aiming to understand more than just overpassing the limits, the approximation, the “doing together” that the almost universalization of the basic school provides. …”
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The critique of Gikuyu religion and culture in S.N. Ngubiah's A Curse from God by F. Hale

“…In contrast to the nostalgic defensiveness of many Kenyan and other post-colonial African writers, perhaps most notably Ngugi wa Thiong’o, the Gikuyu novelist S.N. …”
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Męczeństwo formą samobójstwa? by Marcin Cholewa

“…The article focuses on key elements of martyrdom (conscious and voluntary acceptance of death, dying for the faith, virtues pertaining to God, bearing witness to truth and love, patient endurance until death, externalised defending the truth of faith, a persecutor as opposed to the martyr, no pursuit of martyrdom, the pursuit of martyrdom not for its glory) and altruistic suicide (conscious and voluntary acceptance of death, death for the sake of others, society, bearing witness to the values, God, honour, friendship, freedom, desire for death without reward, death as a personal act, not harming innocent people, exceptions are acts of terrorism and suicide acts during wars). …”
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Cuteness and aggression in military picturebooks by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Jörg Meibauer

“…On the one hand, it is not possible to represent war as a good thing across the board; on the other hand, war is depicted with respect to certain scenarios of self-defence. The narrative solution seems to be that “cute” characters (that is, anthropomorphic animals and vehicles) are introduced who serve as positive military protagonists that have to fight against aggressive characters representing the enemy. …”
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