consequences are distinguished by the fact that they are entities of such a sort that they can exist only as the fruits or products of corresponding performative acts. They are distinguished further by the fact that, like claims, obligations and other legal entities, they fall midway between Platonic objects, which lie outside the realm of time and change, and real objects of the causal flux. (...

Invasions by alien plant species are rapidly increasing in both their extent and intensity, leading to the widespread degradation of terrestrial aquatic ecosystems across world. One most widely dispersed, invasive, Europe, North America many other countries, including Türkiye, is tree heaven, Ailanthus altissima. Numerous potential biological control agents, eriophyoid mites, have been reported...

Compared Wen Wang eight diagrams with Fuxi diagrams, the position of Qian (heaven) hexagrams shifted from due south to northwest, which was closely related early geographical environment and climate change in eastern part Eurasian continent. In pre-Qin period, migration conflict ethnic groups were mostly caused northwest region. The western Zhou dynasty Qin empire both rose region China became ...

Host range assessment for emerging invasive insects is a vital step toward fully defining the issues insect may pose. Spotted lanternfly (SLF) an species that rapidly expanding its presence in United States. The primary hosts facilitating this spread are tree of heaven, plant from SLF’s native range, and economically important winegrape. Black walnut also implicated as common host plant. This s...

There is a curious imbrication of two distinctive ocular matrices in Paradise Lost: the omniscient spectator-deity theatrum mundi ("world as stage") whose eye surveys all action, and network angelic surveillance that fallible inefficient when compared with divine gaze. Such conjoining has an insidious effect on fallen angels humans poem, who tragically tailor their actions to suit (or hoodwink)...