Public trust in Chinese elder-care social enterprises: common awareness and diverse perspectives from key stakeholders

Abstract Chinese elder-care social enterprises (SEs), emerging hybrid organizations that address welfare problems in elder care through business activities, face ambiguity as the institutionalization of the SE sector is growing rapidly.Few studies have focused on changes in public behavior and trust in this emerging organizational form.The purpose

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Experimental bluetongue virus infection of Culicoides austropalpalis, collected from a farm environment in Victoria, Australia

Following the emerging bluetongue virus transmission in European temperate regions, we question the vector competence of the abundant Culicoides austropalpalis Lee and Reye in South-East temperate Australia.Field collected Culicoides midges were membrane fed with a bluetongue virus serotype 1 (BTV-1).The average feeding rate was 50%.After 13 days,

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