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This is Kandinsky
Intellectual, emotional, restless, dogged, loyal, selfish; Kandinsky was an artist - and a man - of contradictions. This genre-defying painter didn't pick up a brush until he was thirty years old. He was an academic with a promising career that he threw away to explore the arts.
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Energy, governance and security in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma)
Based on extensive fieldwork in the region this ground-breaking book explores the important role that environmental movements from these countries are playing in promoting effective energy and environmental governance. By comparing the nature of this activism under two very different political regimes, Adam Simpson provides crucial theoretical insights for sustainable resource development in the South.
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American wild
American Wild: it can kill you, or exhilarate you. It's always there, a character in its own right in the great unfolding narrative of American writing. This issue of Granta is dedicated to stories of the wild, from MELINDA MOUSTAKIS on gutting fish in Alaska to CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS on a lost child in a dystopian California. Also: ANTHONY DOERR on a family of pioneers in Idaho, ADAM NICOLSON on tracking wolves in New Mexico and DAVID TREUER on cage fighting and his Ojibwe heritage.
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The environment - Energy security nexus: critical analysis of an energy 'love triangle' in Southeast Asia
The mantra of energy security is regularly employed as an excuse for governing elites in the less affluent South to pursue large-scale energy projects that are often inappropriate and unnecessary for local development needs. This situation is exemplified in Thailand, Burma and Laos. Here the dominant classes have created an energy 'love triangle', whereby Thailand exports the many problems associated with cross-border energy projects to its more authoritarian neighbours while importing the resultant energy. This article employs critical security literature and the concept of earth rights to investigate these relationships and elucidate resultant linkages between environmental and energy security. It finds that, far from safeguarding local communities from depravation, these projects often exacerbate existing social tensions and conflict, hastening environmental degradation and intensifying various manifestations of insecurity.
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Metal accumulation in the shell and soft tissues of invasive mystery snails
Asian mystery snails (Cipangopaludina chinensis Gray, 1834 and Cipangopaludina Japonica von Martens, 1861) were introduced to the United States in the 1890s and have since spread to waterbodies across the country. Besides the classic effects of invasive species, mystery snails may accumulate and distribute metals in invaded ecosystems. Few studies have evaluated this phenomenon in non-native mystery snail populations, specifically regarding partitioning of metals between different tissues and shells, and metal maternal transfer. Our goal was to compare metal concentrations (Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn) of shells, tissues, and environment of mystery snails, and the extent to which metals are maternally transferred. Mystery snails, water, and sediment were collected from several locations in northwestern Pennsylvania, USA, between 2021-2023. Metal concentrations in environmental matrices, tissues, and shells of mystery snails were evaluated via inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Snail metal concentrations were compared to environmental concentrations to determine allocation between tissues and putative routes of accumulation. All five metals were detected in mystery snail tissues, with evidence of substantial accumulation of Cd, Pb, and Ni. Bioconcentration and biota sediment accumulation factors revealed that for most metals, accumulation may have occurred from water, likely reflecting snail feeding strategies and metal bioavailability. Significant correlations between maternal and offspring metal concentrations were found for all five metals, but Cu showed elevated concentrations in offspring compared to mothers. This suggests maternal transfer, increasing potential trophic transfer through predation on juvenile snails. Quantifying metal concentrations in mystery snails provides insight into potential exposure risks and trophic transfer, with implications for evaluating adverse effects in native species.
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Science map metaphors: a comparison of network versus hexmap-based visualizations
Most maps of science use a network layout; few use a landscape metaphor. Human users are trained in reading geospatial maps, yet most have a hard time reading even simple networks. Prior work using general networks has shown that map-based visualizations increase recall accuracy of data. This paper reports the result of a comparison of two comparable renderings of the UCSD map of science that are: the original network layout and a novel hexmap that uses a landscape metaphor to layout the 554 subdisciplines grouped into 13 color-coded disciplines of science. Overlaid are HITS metrics that show the impact and transformativeness of different scientific subdisciplines. Both maps support the same interactivity, including search, filter, zoom, panning, and details on demand. Users performed memorization, search, and retrieval tasks using both maps. Results did not show any significant differences in how the two maps were remembered or used by participants. We conclude with a discussion of results and planned future work.
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Experiential Course Learning, Wellness, and Higher Education: Qualitative Descriptive Study
Undergraduate students, including those preparing for health professions, report high rates of psychological distress and underuse of traditional counseling services. Credit-bearing wellness courses that combine psychoeducation with experiential learning may offer a scalable, curriculum-based approach to supporting student well-being.
This qualitative study explored how undergraduate students described personal growth, coping, and lifestyle changes following participation in experiential wellness courses.
An anonymous postcourse online survey captured open-ended responses from students enrolled across 6 wellness course sections. The courses emphasized stress physiology, evidence-based coping strategies, and weekly experiential assignments. Narrative responses from 110 participants were analyzed inductively using the reflexive thematic analysis developed by Braun and Clarke within a constructivist-interpretivist paradigm.
A total of six themes were identified: (1) healthy habits and practical lifestyle change; (2) stress management skills and mental health techniques; (3) self-reflection, awareness, and personal growth; (4) relevance and immediate applicability; (5) peer connection and discussion-based learning; and (6) course structure and opportunities for improvement. Students described adopting new coping strategies, developing greater self-awareness, and perceiving course content as relevant and applicable to their daily lives.
Students described experiential wellness courses as supportive of coping, self-awareness, and behavior change. These findings provide insight into how students engage with and interpret course-based wellness education. Curriculum-integrated approaches may represent a complementary strategy to support student well-being. Future research should examine these approaches across diverse populations and over time.
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Variation in toxicity of a current-use insecticide among resurrected Daphnia pulicaria genotypes
This study examined how genotypes of Daphnia pulicaria from a single population, separated by thousands of generations of evolution in the wild, differ in their sensitivity to a novel anthropogenic stressor. These genotypes were resurrected from preserved resting eggs isolated from sediments belonging to three time periods: 2002–2008, 1967–1977, and 1301–1646 A.D. Toxicity of the organophosphate insecticide chlorpyrifos was determined through a series of acute toxicity tests. There was a significant dose–response effect in all genotypes studied. Moreover, significant variation in toxicity among genotypes within each time period was detected. Importantly, a significant effect of time period on sensitivity to chlorpyrifos was found. Analysis of the median effect concentrations (EC50s) for genotypes within each time period indicated that the 1301–1646 genotypes were 2.7 times more sensitive than the 1967–1977 genotypes. This trend may be partially explained by microevolutionary shifts in response to cultural eutrophication.
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Investigation of insecticide leaching from potted nursery stock and aquatic health benefits of bioretention cells receiving nursery runoff
Tree nurseries and greenhouses within the USDA red imported fire ant (RIFA) quarantine zone are required to incorporate insecticides into their potting media to prevent artificial spread of RIFA. Bifenthrin and fipronil are two common insecticides that are incorporated into potting media. During irrigation and stormwater events, there is potential for insecticides to leach from nursery pots, resulting in the contamination of nearby surface waters. In this study, occurrences of insecticides in simulated nursery runoff were compared with two irrigation strategies and two types of containers in single pot leaching and field runoff simulations. In addition, toxicity of pot leachate to the aquatic invertebrate, Hyallela azteca, was measured, and removal efficiencies of insecticides from bioretention cell media were evaluated. Overhead irrigation resulted in significantly higher concentrations than drip irrigation, and RootMaker® pots allowed more leaching as compared to standard slick-wall pots. However, in all tests, the average concentration of bifenthrin during 15 days of leaching in both pot and field simulations was greater than 200 ng/L; more than 100-fold greater than the LC₅₀ for H. azteca. Toxicity studies confirmed this level of toxicity. Higher amounts of compost, 20 and 40 %, in bioretention cell media resulted in greater percent reduction of both bifenthrin and fipronil. This study determined that management techniques may be able to limit the amount of insecticide that leaches from pots and runs off to receiving water bodies. Specifically, the selection of appropriate pot types, irrigation strategies, or filtering runoff through bioretention cells may reduce contamination loads. Thus, further best management strategies such as the use of bioretention cells are needed in nursery and greenhouse facilities to prevent surface water runoff from transporting toxic insecticides.
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The Asian Development Bank as a Global Risk Regulator in Myanmar
The Asian Development Bank (adb) is engaged in development projects throughout the Greater Mekong Subregion, although for most of the past two decades it has boycotted Myanmar (Burma) because of donor government sanctions. Despite being criticised for its neoliberal focus and its lack of transparency and accountability, the adb's operations compare favourably to those of the Myanmar government and many transnational corporations constructing and financing projects there. This article engages with the concept of risk, which increasingly frames how development in fragile states like Myanmar is understood, to critically analyse the adb's nascent re-engagement in Myanmar according to the risks this poses for five constituencies: the adb itself; donor states; the Myanmar government and military; private capital; and marginalised communities. While deeper engagement in Myanmar poses different risks for each group, critical analysis suggests that the adb must increase the genuine participation of civil society actors in its activities to address the most significant risks of all, those facing marginalised communities.
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