Ghost Ant, Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius) (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by J. C. Nickerson, C. L. Bloomcamp, Thomas R. Fasulo

“…Field populations were confined to South Florida although active colonies had been reported as far north as Gainesville, in Alachua County (Bloomcamp and Bieman, personal communication) and Duval County, (Mattis et al. 2004). …”
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Competing frames over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the Egyptian and Ethiopian media by Desalegn Aynalem, Desalegn Aynalem, Abdissa Zerai

“…‘Regional integration,’ ‘Necessity of binding agreement’ Vs. ‘Obsession with colonial treaties,’ ‘Unyieldingness’ (for both) and ‘Unilateral act’ Vs. …”
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La paradoja del desarrollo: consultas comunitarias en la posguerra guatemalteca by Vaclav Masek

“…Connecting three layers of meaning-making through the collective memory of colonialism, genocide, and extractivism, Maya Q’eqchi community leaders articulate «future-coordination» through collective memory. …”
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Revealing the status of Orbicella: Main reef-builder of Morrocoy National Park and Cuare Wildlife Refuge, Venezuela, Southern Caribbean. by Anaurora Yranzo-Duque, Ana Teresa Herrera-Reveles, Estrella Villamizar, Francoise Cabada-Blanco, Jeannette Pérez-Benítez, Hazael Boadas, José G Rodríguez Quintal, Carlos Pereira, Samuel Narciso, Freddy A Bustillos

“…The central sector of Morrocoy and reefs from Cuare are the most relevant for Orbicella populations, due to the higher live cover and abundance of reproductive colonies. Diseases were the primary threat recorded for both species. …”
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HEGEL EN AMÉRICA by Bruno Bosteels

“…El escrito sitúa las Lecciones de Filosofía de la Historia de Hegel en el contexto de la expansión colonial europea a las Américas en 1492 y el surgimiento del imperio estadounidense desde 1898 hasta hoy. …”
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Pueblos sin religión: la falacia de la controversia de Valladolid by Daniel Montañez Pico

“…Sin embargo, se ha convertido con el paso del tiempo en un referente historiográfico fundamental para comprender el dominio hispano sobre América durante el periodo colonial. En este trabajo tratamos de abonar al debate una sencilla idea: no existió tal controversia sobre la humanidad de los indios en Valladolid, lo que existió fue una disputa sobre los modos de colonizar a los pueblos indígenas del continente americano. …”
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Bio-poéticas y bio-políticas coloniales. Una Arqueología del saber etnológico/etnográfico by Leticia Katzer

“…Sin embargo, nuestra idea central es que la teoría antropológica/etnográfica clásica reinscribe la lógica colonial a través de la propia maquinaria biopolítica/inmunitaria El objetivo del artículo es explorar las categorías, soportes filosóficos y formas de construcción de las relaciones etnográficas que se inscriben en la subjetivación étnica en el marco de las etnografías de primera mitad de siglo XX. …”
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Os tupinambá e uma nova interpretação da conquista na antropologia de Florestan Fernandes by Maria de Fátima Souza Silveira, Sedi Hirano

“…Assim, situamos a antropologia de Florestan Fernandes como uma crítica a essa perspectiva colonial, e um convite ao exercício da "descolonização permanente" do pensamento na América Latina. …”
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Hospitalité publique et altérité tsigane : du modèle d’intégration au paradigme assimilationniste by Caroline Trouillet

“…Since the « insertion village » as it is conceived implies a colonial relationship between strangers and indigenous people, this article shows how the project draws its rules from essentialist thoughts that inspired 19th century paternalist structures aimed at controlling workers' practices.…”
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EXPLORING THE STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF THE NOVOSIBIRSK BIOMEDICAL CO-AUTHORSHIP NETWORK by I. I. Titov, A. A. Blinov

“…The interaction diversity within the communities of living matter, from bacterial colonies to human societies, makes them inherently more complex than ensembles of particles in inanimate nature. …”
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Design and Prototype of an Automatic Dam Monitoring and Control System. by Kiconco, Dalison

“…Dams have played a vital role since the time of colonialism. The lack of a proper dam management system has been causing several losses including the recent floods. …”
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Fracture Toughness Assessment of Pipeline Steels Under Hydrogen Exposure for Blended Gas Applications by Hesamedin Ghadiani, Zoheir Farhat, Tahrim Alam, Md. Aminul Islam

“…A vintage API X52 steel with a ferritic–pearlitic microstructure and a modern API X65 steel with polygonal ferrite and elongated pearlite colonies were selected to represent old and new pipeline materials. …”
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Wujud Nasionalisme Tokoh Modernis Islam: Kontribusi K.H. Mas Mansur dalam Mengantarkan Indonesia Merdeka by Miftahuddin Miftahuddin, Danar Widiyanta, Adnan Rafsanjani

“…Mas Mansur in the context of Indonesia's struggle for independence from colonial rule. The research employs historical research procedures, including heuristics (source gathering), verification (criticism of the collected sources), interpretation (analysis of historical facts), and historiography (writing of history). …”
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La élite local ante la crisis de la monarquía hispánica: lealtad, tradición y ruptura en el Cabildo de Popayán, Virreinato de Nueva Granada, 1808-1811 by Adolfo León Guerrero García

“…A partir de la revisión de documentos gubernamentales y correspondencia privada se identifican las primeras impresiones que el fenómeno internacional genera en la élite payanesa; la recepción de las noticias sobre la crisis del régimen español; la escenificación de las muestras de lealtad al rey; los giros de lealtad e impugnación del poder a las autoridades monárquicas y las tensiones de oposición al establecimiento de un gobierno local autónomo en la ciudad colonial. Estos comportamientos políticos de las élites locales marcaron los inicios de la transformación de su régimen político.…”
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Hepatic Differentiation of Murine Disease-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Allows Disease Modelling In Vitro by Reto Eggenschwiler, Komal Loya, Malte Sgodda, Francoise André, Tobias Cantz

“…In this study, we focused on three murine models for metabolic liver disorders: the copper storage disorder Wilson's disease (toxic-milk mice), tyrosinemia type 1 (fumarylacetoacetate-hydrolase deficiency, FAH−/− mice), and alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency (PiZ mice). Colonies of iPSCs emerged 2-3 weeks after transduction of fibroblasts, prepared from each mouse strain, and were maintained as individual iPSC lines. …”
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Sharing soil knowledge of the Congolese coastal plains within international research partnerships by Lydie-Stella Koutika

“…Soil knowledge is very limited in the Congolese coastal plains, while database from the colonial period is unavailable and scarce. These soils are commonly nutrient-poor, sandy, and regarded as unsuitable for agriculture. …”
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Human microbiomes in cancer development and therapy by Chenglai Xia, Jiyan Su, Can Liu, Zhikai Mai, Shuanghong Yin, Chuansheng Yang, Liwu Fu

“…Abstract Colonies formed by bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viral groups and their genomes, metabolites, and expressed proteins constitute complex human microbiomes. …”
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Rapid in vitro method to assemble and transfer DNA fragments into the JCVI-syn3B minimal synthetic bacterial genome through Cre/loxP system by Atsuko Uenoyama, Hana Kiyama, Mone Mimura, Makoto Miyata

“…We obtained approximately 103~104 recombinant colonies per milliliter of the original culture in eight days, which is four days shorter than the conventional period, without any recombination issues, even for AT-rich DNA. …”
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Differential Characterization of Two Kinds of Stem Cells Isolated from Rabbit Nucleus Pulposus and Annulus Fibrosus by Chenglin Sang, Xuecheng Cao, Fangjing Chen, Xuekang Yang, Yongxian Zhang

“…Both disk cells formed colonies in culture and expressed stem cell markers, nucleostemin, Oct-4, SSEA-4, and Stro-1, at early passages. …”
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Molecular detection of the hpmA and ureA genes in clinical Proteus mirabilis isolates by Rosa Kareem Shameel, Marwa Hameed M. Alkhafaji

“…All specimens were identified based on morphological characteristics on media of culture like pale, non-lactose ferment colonies on MaCconkey agar, swarming on blood agar, and salmonella shigella agar for hydrogen sulfide production, more diagnosed via utilizing molecular detection and the VITEK system, giving positive results for twenty P. mirabilis isolates. …”
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