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Open AccessUmwelt Theory, Biosemiotics and Damage Limitation
Phenomenology, particularly as developed by Merleau-Ponty, primarily concerns how human beings perceive and act towards the world they encounter, their lifeworld. Umwelt theory, by contrast, primarily concerns...
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Open AccessA globally synthesised and flagged bee occurrence dataset and cleaning workflow
Species occurrence data are foundational for research, conservation, and science communication, but the limited availability and accessibility of reliable data represents a major obstacle, particularly for ins...
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Open AccessSocial isolation and loneliness among older adults living in rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic: a sco** review
The causes and consequences of social isolation and loneliness of older people living in rural contexts during the COVID-19 pandemic were systematically reviewed to describe patterns, causes and consequences.
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Eastern Traditions, Western Science and Whitehead
John Pickering makes the case as to why it is timely to engage with Eastern traditions, particularly in light of our ecological precarity. While many scholars have pointed to similarities between Whitehead’s p...
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Open Access“If you have a pain, get on a plane”: qualitatively exploring how short-term Canadian international retirement migrants prepare to manage their health while abroad
Every year, tens of thousands of older Canadians travel abroad during the winter months to enjoy warmer destinations that offer social and recreational opportunities. How do these Canadians prepare to manage t...
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Open AccessOpportunities and challenges in providing health care for International Retirement Migrants: a qualitative case study of Canadians travelling to Yuma, Arizona
Increasing numbers of older individuals opt to spend extended time abroad each year for lifestyle, health, and financial reasons. This practice is known as international retirement migration, and it is particu...
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Design behaviour for sustainability
An international expert panel probes how engineers, architects and behavioural scientists can work together to learn about design behaviour for sustainability — and what all interested scholars and practitione...
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What Is Known about the Factors Motivating Short-Term International Retirement Migration? A Sco** Review
It is known that older persons from many countries often enjoy living abroad for weeks or months of the year, often to avoid periods of harsh weather at home. However, there has been little attempt to synthesi...
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Open AccessNatural, Un-Natural and Detached Mimicry
Natural mimicry is ubiquitous. Plants mimic animals, animals mimic plants, animals mimic each other and animals may even mimic counterfactual states that deceive or distract other animals. Almost all natural m...
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Is Nature Habit-Forming?
The term “habit” in ordinary speech means a wide range of things. However, as used by C. S. Peirce, “habit” is generalized to such an extent that it seems to require a radical change in our worldview. Such a...
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Is Well-Being Local or Global? A Perspective from Ecopsychology
Well-being has both noun and verb senses. The noun sense will here mean the feeling of having a place, of being at home in the world. The verb sense will here mean living in balance with the trials of life. It...
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The phenology of a Neotropical ant assemblage: evidence for continuous and overlap** reproduction
Reproductive phenologies reflect the interaction between the mating system of a taxon and the local environment. Ant colonies reproduce and disperse via the flights of winged alates. Few data exist on the rep...
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Human Identity in the Age of Software Agents
The human psychological condition arises in a strange loop. The mind is created within a cultural envelope which is itself created by the mind. Human identity is aquired as the cultural envelop is assimilated,...
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Pseudoreplication: a sine qua non for regional ecology
We question whether classical experimentation is adequate for real progress in landscape or regional ecology. One cannot do classical experimentation unless one can replicate the treatment. There is conflict b...
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Larval competition and brood sex ratios in the gregarious parasitoid Pachysomoides stupidus
The haplodiploid genetics of the Hymenoptera, by which males and females develop from unfertilised and fertilised eggs, respectively, give rise to certain asymmetrical coefficients of relatedness among family ...
