Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is an invasive pest of cereal crops in Africa and three other countries namely India, Myanmar, and Thailand that causes a lot of damage. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of entomopathogenic fungi on the development and hatching time of T. remus. The method used in this study was to observe the effect of entomopatho…
Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) is one of the important pests in maize, this pest damages the vegetative phase so that plant growth is interrupted or die. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of entomopathogenic fungi on the development and hatching time of Telenomus remus (Nixon). The method used in this study is to observe the effect of entomopathogenic fungi on S. frugipe…
Spodoptera frugiperda is a polyphagous pest that causes significant losses in agricultural crops and its symptoms can cause significant yield losses if not managed properly. Parasitoids are one of the biological agents that are widely used in controlling the new pest, S. frugiperda, which attacks corn plants in Indonesia. Especially Telenomus remus, which is effective to control S.frugiperda. T…
Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) is an important pest of widely cultivated corn plants. According to its origin, S. frugiperda originates from the Americas and has spread widely to other countries such as Australia, China, India, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand, including Indonesia. Besides attacking corn, it also attacks sorghum (the main host), as well as other monoculture crops such…
Combining global, media, and cultural studies, this book analyzes the success of Hallyu, or the "Korean Wave” in the West, both at a macro and micro level, as an alternative pop culture globalization. This research investigates the capitalist ecosystem (formed by producers, institutions and the state), the soft power of Hallyu, and the reception among young people, using France as a case stud…
This book provides a full scale description and discussion of science, technology, society, cross-cultural communication and modernity and is presented at a level that makes it accessible to the interested academic. Starting with the historical overview, the text outlines the relevance of technology today and in the future. Then follows an introduction to the discovery and invention by agricult…
This book examines the history of racial classifications in Puerto Rico censuses, starting with the Spanish censuses and continuing through the US ones. Because Puerto Rican censuses were collected regularly over hundreds of years, they are fascinating “test cases” to see what census categories might have been available and effective in shaping everyday ones. Published twentieth-century cen…
Cephalopachus bancanus is a primitive primate distributed in western Indonesia and is now classified as a protected species on the IUCN red list as Vulnerable. Cephalopachus bancanus populations from South Sumatra and Bangka Island are the same sub-species, the geographical isolation that has formed affects the distribution and genetic variation. Specific genetic markers are needed as an effort…
Local rice in South Sumatra is generally specific to various regions and cultivated for generations by the community and adapted to specific environmental conditions. Siam and Siputih rice survive and are planted by farmers as local varieties of swampland rice because of the good taste of rice and tolerance to swamp waterlogging for a long time, but are currently not widely cultivated because o…
This book contributes to current debates about “queer outsides” and “queer outsiders” that emerge from tensions in legal reforms aimed at improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer people in the United Kingdom. LGBTIQ people in the UK have moved from being situated as “outlaws” – through prohibitions on homosexuality or cross-dressing – to re…
This book takes a feminist approach to analyse the lives of well-educated urban Chinese women, who were raised to embody the ideals of a modern Chinese nation and are largely the beneficiaries of the policy changes of the post-Mao era. It explores young women’s gendered attitudes to and experiences of marriage, reproductive choices, careers and aspirations for a good life. It sheds light on w…
This volume presents a collection of essays that explore the relationship between sporting clothing and gender. Drawing on uniform and sports apparel as a means of exploring the socio-sexual politics of contemporary US society, the contributions analyse the historical, political-economic, socio-cultural and sport-specific dimensions of gendered clothing in sport. Part of a two-volume series …
Through an intersectional feminist re-reading of the Habermasian theoretical framework, this book analyses how women's activism has developed and operated in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Chapters look at three key areas of women's activism in Iran: how women deliberately engaged with media activism despite the government's controlling and repressive policies; women's involvement in civil socie…
This book examines how feminist movements in Norway and France have politicized rape, pornography and sexual exploitation of women from the 1970s to the present. Through a cross-national comparison, it provides insights into why the fight against rape became top priority for French feminists in the 1970s; what kind of strategies the feminist movements used when politicizing sex and violence; wh…
This volume addresses the engagement between science and society from multiple viewpoints. At a time when trust in experts is being questioned, misinformation is rife and scientific and technological development show growing social impact, the volume examines the challenges in involving the public in scientific debates and decisions. It takes into account societal needs and concerns in resea…
This book considers issues of social and ecological significance through a masculinities lens. Earth – our home for aeons – is reeling. The atmosphere is heating up, causing reefs to bleach, fisheries to collapse, regions to flood and dry, vast tracts to burn, the polar ice caps to melt, ancient glaciers to retreat, biodiversity to decline exacerbated by the sixth great extinction, and more…
This book investigates ways of dressing, style and fashion as gendered and embodied, but equally as “religionized” phenomena, particularly focusing on one significant world religion: Islam. Through their clothing, Muslims negotiate concepts and interpretations of Islam and construct their intersectionally interwoven position in the world. Taking the interlinkages between ‘fashionized rel…
This book examines the general attitudes of childless women to assisted reproduction technologies as well as the norms and beliefs concerning partnership, age and burdens related to assisted reproduction technologies based on four focus group discussions and 32 semi-structured, in-depth interviews. The results show that there is an overall positive attitude to assisted reproduction, but that do…
This edited volume critically reflects on the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and continues to affect women in India. Drawing on a range of qualitative and quantitative research, contributors analyze the implications of the pandemic on the informal sector, migrant women workers, women in the health care sector, women’s economic engagement, the experiences of elderly women, me…
This book recounts the author’s fieldwork among the trans and gender-variant communities in Naples. This is where a gender-variant figure, the femminiello, has found a safe environment within the city’s historical poorest neighborhoods, the so-called “quartieri popolari”, which were and continue to be culturally and socially connoted. The femminielli, who can be read as “suspended” …
This book provides a practical, evidence-based guide to teaching introductory Women's and Gender Studies courses. Based on the findings of a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning project that analyzed 72 Intro students’ written work, the authors equip instructors with key principles that can help them adapt their pedagogy to a range of classroom environments. By putting student learning at the…
This book explores how corpus linguistic techniques can be applied to close analysis of videogames as a text, particularly examining how language is used to construct representations of gender in fantasy videogames. The author demonstrates a wide array of techniques which can be used to both build corpora of videogames and to analyse them, revealing broad patterns of representation within the g…
This study aims to know and see the gender problems faced by women with widow status in Kebun Bunga Village, Sukarami District, Palembang. The research method used is qualitative descriptive with data collection techniques through in-depth interviews, participant observation and documentation. This research uses the concept of gender injustice from Mansour Fakih. The results showed that widowed…
This handbook adopts a distinctively global and intersectional approach to gender and migration, as social class, race and ethnicity shape the process of migration in its multiple dimensions. A large range of topics exploring gender, sexuality and migration are presented, including feminist migration research, care, family, emotional labour, brain drain and gender, parenting, gendered geographi…
flavonoid compounds and has the potential as an antihyperuricemia. This study aims to evaluate the antihyperuricemia activity of ethanol extract of B. spectabilis in male white rats of the Wistar strain. Extraction was carried out by the maceration method using 96% ethanol. The extract was characterized and tested the antihyperuricemia activity used 35 rats male were divided into 7 groups: norm…
This research focuses on women's resistance to sexual objectification on Twitter. The subjects in this research were female Twitter users. In this research, the theory used is James C. Scott's Theory of Resistance using descriptive qualitative methods and case studies as research strategies. Data collection techniques in this research were carried out through observation, interviews, documentat…
This research is entitled "Gender Roles in Rubber Farming Families in Permata Baru Village, North Indralaya". This research aims to identify gender roles in the family. This type of research is descriptive and qualitative. Determining informants using purposeful techniques with data collection techniques, namely non-participant observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation. This research …
This revised and updated edition of the 2016 bestselling work sets out the moral arguments for a woman’s right to decide the future of her pregnancy. Drawing on traditions of philosophical and sociological thinking, it presents the case for recognizing autonomy in personal, private decision-making about reproductive intentions. Further, it argues that to prevent a woman making this decision a…