Also, the casual use oftraumaand its related concepts can dilute terms that once had impact. And while how we use those words doesn’t necessarily change their meaning, it can strip them of their complexity and rob them of their value. Nuances get lost and everything becomestrauma. And yet...
Here we provide the trait dataset that served as basis for the analysis of the global spectrum of plant form and function presented in Díazet al.9–the ‘Global Spectrum of Plant Form and Function Dataset’ (short here ‘Global Spectrum Dataset’). The dataset is predominantly based on trait...
Considering this fact, alternately to the biomedical denomination of “Chagas disease”, throughout this article we will also refer to “Chagas” with a broader meaning, to include the psychological, legal, and socioeconomic issues that affect people infected by T. cruzi (most of whom will ...
Joseph Dalton Hooker, when the director of Kew Gardens, UK (1865–1885) is reported to have said ofWelwitschiathat “it is out of the question the most wonderful plant ever brought to this country and one of the ugliest”. The species shows remarkable tenacity in surviving in the Kaokoveld...
‘its richness of traditional meaning and its happy association of the two conceptions, too often separated in modern minds, of Wealth and Welfare’ (Nationality and Government, 136); Zimmern discussed elsewhere how politics and economics were falsely separated by nineteenth-century theorists (The ...
"You're able to reach people on the complete opposite side of the world without even meaning to," she says. "It's a good little joke from fate." Chinchilla Photo courtesy of Chinchilla/Illustration by Zooey Liao/CNET The song got over 1 billion views on TikTok and made Ch...
meaning "upon," anddemos,means "upon the people." In order for a disease to become epidemic it must be highly contagious, that is, easily spread through a population. Influenza, better known as the flu, has been the cause of many epidemics throughout history. Epidemics of waterborne ...
Usage Note:Mitigate,meaning "to make less severe, alleviate" is sometimes used wheremilitate,which means "to cause a change," might be expected. The confusion arises when the subject ofmitigateis an impersonal factor or influence, and the verb is followed by the prepositionagainst,so the meanin...
Congo gained independence fromBelgiumin 1960. From 1971 to 1997 the country was officially the Republic of Zaire, a change made by then ruler Gen.Mobutu Sese Sekoto give the country what he thought was a more authentic African name. “Zaire” is a variation of a term meaning “great river...
The meaning of ‘pets’ and the practice of pet keeping is culturally and socially constituted. Sociologists and historians have seen the development of pet keeping from the late 18th century as associated with social and economic modernisation in the West, particularly the spread of humanitarian ide...