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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Vermin"”.
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On ‘dirty’ rats, ‘dirty’ spaces and slow violence in Site C, Khayelitsha: an interdisciplinary ethnography of the everyday, living in a rat-infested area
… predominantly viewed and understood as pests, vermin and a risk to human health. Yet little is known about rats in the urban space and the entangled relationships they have with humans and the environment. This dissertation elaborates on the multiple identities that are connotated to rats as …
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Pests, Knowledge and Boundaries in the Early Union of South Africa: categorising, controlling, conserving
… how beings were constructed as ‘pest’ or ‘vermin’, how these organisms changed human/animal relations, and how settler and pest world-making was negotiated. Secondly, mobilising the category “settler science”, I explore how the agency of pests stimulated humans to produce, debate, and …
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Die Rolle des medialen Septums für die synaptogene Östrogenwirkung am Hippocampus
… Die Vermehrung von Spinesynapsen geht mit der Vermin-derung umgebender Astrogliafasern einher, eine Reaktion astrozytärer Fortsätze, die nicht die Astrozytenzahl betrifft. Zudem wurde in CA3 eine Faserzunahme nachgewiesen, die für eine Spinesynapsenreaktion auch in dieser Region spricht.
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CROW - CultuRal co-evOlution of corvids: Winged omens of the times
… in the 16th century, establishing them as vermin and encouraging widespread persecution; intentional corvid killing heightened further following popularisation of gamekeeping in the 18th century. Many of the historical allegations against corvids persist within modern persecution narratives …
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CROW - CultuRal co-evOlution of corvids: Winged omens of the times
… in the 16th century, establishing them as vermin and encouraging widespread persecution; intentional corvid killing heightened further following popularisation of gamekeeping in the 18th century. Many of the historical allegations against corvids persist within modern persecution narratives …
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Of Mice and Maidens: Ideologies of Interspecies Romance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan
… mice. Mice were simultaneously reviled as vermin and celebrated as good omens, compelling the Gon no Kami stories and other "mouse tales" to negotiate between these contradictory identities.
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Prison Imagry in Little Dorrit
… it: dirt, grime, gloom, bars, cramped cells, vermin, musty odors, rusty iron, slimy rocks, to name a few) is a basis for the figurative images Dickens uses to depict the main characters and to interweave the plots which involve various strata of society.</p> <p>As far as is consonant with the …
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Soap based thermal insulation as an environmental alternative to petroleum based thermal insulation
… product can be strengthened, made waterproof, vermin proof and fire retardant, whilst the results from the thermal testing laboratory confirm that aerated soap insulation functions as a moderate performer. The step-by-step experimental methodology applied, alongside the thermal conductivity and …
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End-of-life in South African product life cycle assessment
… waste scavenging, and the presence of vermin and other animal vectors for disease. Analysis of the LCIA results for different landfill scenarios showed that regardless of either the deposited material or the specific landfill conditions modelled, the time frame considered had the most …
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Expanding grasslands? Structural biome shifts in the dryland rangelands of the eastern Karoo revealed through long-term observation of climate, vegetation and land use change
… for example, livestock losses to theft, vermin, or fire, emerged as having significantly influenced management decisions. Therefore, the persistent structural shift in growth forms across the rainfall gradient since the 1960s has largely coincided with significant climatic shifts in …
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Changes in the status and distribution of mammals of the order Carnivora in Yorkshire from 1600. County history of the fox, badger, otter, pine marten, stoat, weasel, polecat, American mink, wildcat and domestic cat.
Data derived largely from ecclesiastical (mostly churchwardens¿) accounts, foxhunting statistics, local scientific society records and 19th and 20th century literature sources from a wide range of published material, have provided detailed evidence of the status and changes in distribution over the …
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Spatial urban environmental change and Malaria/Diarrhoea mortality in Accra, Ghana
… constitute breeding media for insect vector, vermin and other microorganisms. Limited municipal budgets are insufficient to provide city-wide public facilities and for this reason, sanitation services are not distributed evenly across the city providing for high heterogeneity in levels of …
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"Die Landplage des Raupenfraßes" : Wahrnehmung, Schaden und Bekämpfung von Insekten in der Forst- und Agrarwirtschaft des preußischen Brandenburgs (1700-1850)
Menschliche Gesellschaften konkurrieren seit den Anfängen von Ackerbau und Viehzucht mit anderen Organismen um die dort produzierten Ressourcen. Ertragseinbußen in der Land- und Forstwirtschaft sowie Verluste an Nutztieren und Jagdwild durch regelmäßig auftretende Schädlingskalamitäten und …