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Ali Smith, Girl Meets Boy (2007) [PDF]

, 2017
Recommends Smith's novel, which rewrites classical myth through the love story of a modern-day lesbian couple, as challenging "conventional notions of identity on multiple levels," pointing to "the transformative potential of queer identity to embrace a ...
Germanà, M., Germanà, M.
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CloudMonitor: Profiling Power Usage

, 2012
In Cloud Computing platforms the addition of hardware monitoring devices to gather power usage data can be impractical or uneconomical due to the large number of machines to be metered.
Khajeh-Hosseini, Ali, Smith, James William, Sommerville, Ian, Ward, Jonathan Stuart   +3 more
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Consumers' Willingness to Pay a Premium for Climate‐Friendly Food Production: The Role of Production Method Information and Social Norms

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether information about production methods and social norms can increase consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) a price premium for food produced using climate‐friendly farming methods. A randomized survey experiment was conducted with 1568 respondents across Denmark, Lithuania, and Spain, who were assigned to one of four ...
Kassa Tarekegn Erekalo, Tove Christensen, Sigrid Denver, Marilena Gemtou, Spyros Fountas, Søren Marcus Pedersen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crocker Range National Park, Sabah, as a refuge for Borneo’s montane herpetofauna [PDF]

, 2006
Crocker Range National Park in Sabah (East Malaysia), northern Borneo, is an exceptional area for herpetological diversity. Inventories of the Park are incomplete, but show high diversity, as well as regional endemicity shared with the adjacent and more ...
Das, Indraneil
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Intraspecific variation in stomatal architecture, gas exchange, and drought response of a dominant prairie grass sourced from broad climatic gradients

American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Understanding how plant populations adapt to water limitation through stomatal traits is key to predicting drought responses. The dominant C4 grass Andropogon gerardi, distributed across sharp climate gradients in North America, offers an excellent focal species to study stomatal architecture (size and density).
Jack Sytsma, Allison Ricker, Helen Winters, Brian Maricle, Ryann Patterson, Kian Fogarty, Loretta Johnson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Quality Assurance Audit of an Orthoptic-Led Virtual Neuro-Ophthalmology Clinic

British and Irish Orthoptic Journal, 2023
Introduction: Neuro-ophthalmology is experiencing increasing demand. There is a lack of literature relating to how we deal with the capacity and demand issues, and the use of virtual clinics. Virtual clinics are well-recognised in other subspecialties to
Joe Smith, Nicola Hirst, Ali Yagan
doaj   +1 more source

Dictyostelium discoideum: a model for testing novel inhibitors of urokinase-type plasminogen activator [PDF]

, 2013
The social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum is a useful non-animal eukaryote for testing novel compounds and dissecting cell regulatory molecular networks.
Thompson, Elinor
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Examining pathways by which socioeconomic instability in adolescence influence sexual health during emerging adulthood in an agricultural setting in California

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the longitudinal impact of socioeconomic instability on teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection (STI) diagnosis among adolescents and young adults (AYA) living in an agricultural region and examines pathways including supportive family and social structures, decision making autonomy in romantic relationships ...
Marie C. D. Stoner, Erica N. Browne, Marissa Raymond‐Flesch, Mary Kate Shapley‐ Quinn, Nivedita L. Bhushan, Alondra Jaime‐Aguilar, Carmen Ramirez, Jessica Huante, Daisy Gallardo, Sue Napierala, Megan Comfort, Alexandra M. Minnis   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Am I that Name?’: Authorial Identity in Writing by Contemporary British Women Authors

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2014
Today the terms ‘woman’ or ‘women’, when uttered in the realm of literary criticism, are troubled by an underlying consciousness of heterogeneous, fragmented identity. Yet, the category of ‘woman’, of ‘women’, and even of the ‘woman writer’, persists and
Michelle Ryan Sautour
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A cross‐sectional survey to explore the prevalence and causes of occupational burnout syndrome among perioperative nurses in Saudi Arabia

Nursing Open, 2021
Aim To detect the level of burnout and its most significant causes among perioperative nurses. Design A descriptive quantitative cross‐sectional survey design.
Bader Ali Almodibeg, Hazel Smith
doaj   +1 more source