Attracting Native Bees to Your Florida Landscape by Rachel Mallinger, Anne Yasalonis, Gary Knox, Wayne Hobbs

“…These bees rely on flowers for survival; their diets consist exclusively of pollen and nectar harvested from flowers. Recently reported declines in some bee species have heightened awareness of bee conservation across the United States and motivated efforts to increase floral resources for bees. …”
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Sociology of the COVID-19 Lockdown: Critical Analysis of Its Effects on Private School Teacher Wellbeing by Denis, Sekiwu, Johnson, Ocan

“…In sociological and motivational theory, such a lag in earning is certainly linked to potential decline in the teacher’s social and economic wellbeing and henceforth a huge demotivator for this group. …”
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Interactive relationship between carbon flow and economic growth and influencing factors based on land use transition by ZHANG Changren, HAN Zenglin, ZHAO Yuqing, YAN Xiaolu

“…The coupling coordination level rises first from 0.79 in 2000-2005 to 0.93 in 2010-2015, and then declines to 0.87 during 2015-2020. Compared with other provinces, the eastern coastal provinces have a higher level of coupling coordination. (3) The impact of urbanization levels at different dimensions on the coupling coordination relationship varies. …”
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Evaluation of pathology resources for cervical cancer detection between 2018 and 2022: a retrospective study at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Western Kenya by Nelson Anangwe, Jon Steimgrimson, Susan Cu-Uvin

“…Despite challenges such as a declining staff-to-patient ratio and limited resources, the lab maintained a commendable 14-day turnaround time, supporting timely cervical cancer diagnoses. …”
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Farmers’ Perception of the Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Food Security in Rubanda District, South Western Uganda by Willbroad, Byamukama, Bello N.J, Omoniyi T.E

“…Farmers perceived the variability of the climate to have led to the decline of agricultural production hence impacting on food security. …”
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'n Teologies-kritiese beoordeling van die verhouding tussen die objektiewe en die subjektiewe aspekte in die heilstoeëiening by P.F. Theron by C. Nel, S. A. Strauss

“…He reveals a possible inherent objectivist tendency in his thoughts about the Scriptures by overemphasising the promises of the Scriptures at the expense of the demands of the Scriptures. This tendency influences his thoughts about salvation. …”
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“In Heavy Chains”: The Treatment of Prisoners of War in the Teutonic Order in Prussia, the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the First Half of the Fifteenth Cen... by Antanas Petrilionis

“…The work highlights the most salient aspects of captivity, including the deprivation experienced by the prisoners, the means by which they were able to obtain basic necessities such as food and clothing, and the types of places in which they were typically detained. Moreover, the article explores the various factors that influenced the behavior of both captors and captives, and distinguishes between the appropriate and inappropriate treatment of prisoners based on the established norms of medieval times. …”
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Sustaining teaching during a crisis by Marcia D Dixson, Julie Saam

“…Given the increasing demands on faculty in higher education, it is imperative that we better understand how to support faculty across their careers and in all areas of faculty life.  …”
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Predicting the evolution of bacterial populations with an epistatic selection-mutation model by Raul Donangelo, Hugo Fort

“…It incorporates two recently noticed phenomena related to mutations: (i) the fact that the marginal improvement from a beneficial mutation declines with increasing fitness or diminishing returns epistasis and (ii) for some hypermutator variants, the mutation rate for the bacterial DNA undergoes a sudden increase by at least one order of magnitude. …”
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Field Identification of Citrus Canker Symptoms and Decontamination Procedures by Mongi Zekri, Holly L. Chamberlain, Pete Timmer, Pamela D. Roberts, Rosa M. Muchovej

“…Severe infestation can cause defoliation, premature fruit drop, twig dieback, general tree decline, and very bad blemishes on fruit. Trees infected with citrus canker become weak, unproductive, and unprofitable. …”
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Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome with Eosinophilia and Purtscher-like Retinopathy: A Case Report by MEI Qimin, DAI Jiayuan, LIU Yecheng, SHEN Min, ZHU Huadong

“…In this paper, we report a patient with severe renal insufficiency with rapidly progressive decline in binocular visual acuity, who developed eosinophilia during the course of the disease, and was diagnosed with aHUS after excluding other diseases. …”
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Адаптация детей к обучению в первом классе by Елена В. Беловол, Елена Ю. Шурупова, Злата В. Бойко

“…An example of an empirical study of the properties of adaptation of children to school in the first grade shows that in the absence of the willingness of teachers to consider teaching and upbringing as related processes a dissonance is created between the demands of school on the one hand and the creation of psychologically conducive conditions to the education of the child on the other. …”
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Dogfennel (Eupatorium capillifolium): Biology and Control by Jason A. Ferrell, Gregory E. MacDonald

“…Dogfennel is particularly troublesome in unimproved or overgrazed pastures where it adds to the decline of forage yield and quality. Although generally considered to be only unsightly, the leaves contain low levels of the toxin tremitol, which causes dehydration when ingested by cattle. …”
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Advancing feminist understandings of woman abuse: the value of old wine in new bottles by Walter S. DeKeesredy

“…Despite making some of the most important advances in the social scientific study of woman abuse, feminist sociological research and theorizing that prioritize the concept of patriarchy have leveled off or declined in the last 15 years due, in large part, to the current hegemony of mainstream criminologists fundamentally opposed to a rich gendered understanding of one of the world's most compelling social problems. …”
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Invitation to heretical reading of Montessori pedagogy by Jarosław Jendza

“…This mode of reading demands constant attempts of playing with the pillars or the main categories of this educational approach. …”
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Nutrient Cycling in Grazed Pastures by Maria L. Silveira, Joao M. Vendramini, Hiran M. da Silva, Mariana Azenha

“…If nutrients become deficient, pasture and animal performance is reduced, and the economic returns of livestock operations may decline. This 3-page fact sheet discusses the different nutrient pathways in grazing pastures to help producers better understand how to promote nutrient cycling and pasture sustainability. …”
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THE EVOLVING DYNAMICS OF NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY AND POLITICS IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION IN NIGERIA by Toye Manuwa

“…The paper concludes that Nigeria needs to balance its national interests and values with its global obligations and responsibilities, and to foster a more inclusive and accountable governance system that can respond effectively to the demands and expectations of its citizens and the international community. …”
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Non-human animal cultures, co-cultures and conservation by Sueur Cedric

“…The loss of these cultural practices can lead to a decline in population viability, reduced genetic diversity, and destabilised ecosystems, ultimately impacting the services these ecosystems provide to human health and well-being. …”
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"Give us this day our daily bread" - clergy's lived religion in Pretoria central areas by M. Rabe, C. Lombaard

“…Based on the interviews and the diaries, the main themes that could be identified in relation to faith in their everyday lives, are responding to the challenges associated with urban ministry, including poverty and trauma, and dealing with the sometimes overwhelming experience of stress that the demands of this ministry can create. Distancing from the different aspects of their tasks, attending to personal needs, and focusing on individual experiences of faith are the main identified strategies the participants employ in dealing with the daily pressures they are exposed to. …”
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Burrowing Nematode Radopholus similis (Cobb, 1893) Thorne, 1949 (Nematoda: Secernentea: Tylenchida: Pratylenchidae: Pratylenchinae) by Nicholas Sekora, William T. Crow

“…Infection causes toppling disease of banana, yellows disease of pepper and spreading decline of citrus. These diseases are the result of burrowing nematode infection destroying root tissue, leaving plants with little to no support or ability to take up water and translocate nutrients. …”
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