Nest Turrets of Acromyrmex Grass-Cutting Ants: Micromorphology Reveals Building Techniques and Construction Dynamics

Acromyrmex fracticornis grass-cutting ants construct conspicuous chimney-shaped nest turrets made of intermeshed grass fragments.We asked whether turrets are constructed by merely piling up nearby materials around the entrance, Collections or whether ants incorporate different materials as the turret develops.By removing the original nest turrets a

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Self-Rated Oral Health Status And Social And Health Determinants Among 35-65 Year-Old Persons In One Region In Myanmar: A Cross-Sectional Study

Isareethika Jayasvasti,1 Khin Chaw Su Su Htun,2 Karl Peltzer3 1ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand; 2Biomedical Science Department, University of Community Health, Magway, Myanmar; 3Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and Innovation Office, North West University, Potchefstroom, South AfricaCorrespondence: Karl P

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Simulacra of emptiness. The model as habitable space

This contribution is part of a study dedicated to the architectural model Scraper Spatulas as a tool able to reveal the formal generative process of the project.This text develops the topic of the relationship between space and form, further analysing the relationship between the scale of the model and the meaning it takes on in a three-dimensional

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From Tax Farmers to Provincial Administrators: an Approach to the Bureaucratization of the Spanish Tobacco Monopoly during the First Half of the 18th Century

This paper studies, through 17 case studies, which were the socioeconomic features of the provincial administrators of the Spanish Royal KNIVES tobacco Monopoly, at the time of its transition from a tax-farming scheme to a bureaucratic one.Considering the wide range of situations that this brief prospect lets to make out, we may realize besides how

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