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WIREs Cognitive Science, 2014 Facial attractiveness has important social consequences. Despite a widespread belief that beauty cannot be defined, in fact, there is considerable agreement across individuals and cultures on what is found attractive. By considering that attraction and mate choice are critical components of evolutionary selection, we can better understand the ...
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Attractive and non-attractive currencies [PDF]
Journal of International Money and Finance, 2021 In the foreign exchange market, time-varying transaction costs and interest rates may define the time-varying set of attractive currencies for investors. Our study shows that when the currencies are attractive, they tend to deviate from the uncovered interest rate parity and to comove with the global stochastic discount factor (SDF).
Dupuy, P., James, J., Marsh, I. W.
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In search of a new attractant for monitoring Stegobium paniceum L. (Coleoptera: Anobiidae)
Julius-Kühn-Archiv, 2018 Stegobium paniceum (L.) is a major pest for several stored products worldwide. Monitoring methods for this species, based on pheromone traps, are affected by the complexity and expensiveness of the chemical synthesis of the pheromone isomer [(2S,3R,1’R ...
Guarino, Salvatore +7 more
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Assessing the Attractiveness of Three Baits for Roof Rats in California Citrus Orchards
Agronomy, 2021 Roof rats (Rattus rattus) are common pests of tree fruit and nut orchards in California. Tracking tunnels are an effective and practical tool for monitoring changes in roof rat numbers in orchard systems, but they rely on the use of attractive baits to ...
Kallista N. Wales +2 more
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eLife, 2014 A beetle pheromone that lures nematode worms to an insect host can also stop their development or even kill them outright.
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Plant volatile organic compounds attractive to Lygus pratensis
Open Life Sciences, 2022 Lygus pratensis, an important agricultural pest, is seriously detrimental to cotton in China. For the research and development of attractants, the present study screened and identified plant volatiles with activity against the pest.
Feng Hongzu +5 more
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Insects, 2021 Extracts of Diprion similis females contained about 15 ng of the sex pheromone precursor 3,7-dimethylpentadecan-2-ol per female. After derivatisation with (S)-2-acetoxypropanoyl chloride, we found that the major stereoisomer in the extract was (2S,3R,7R)-
Olle Anderbrant +4 more
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Physically attractive faces attract us physically [PDF]
Cognition, 2020 When interacting with other humans, facial expressions provide valuable information for approach or avoid decisions. Here, we consider facial attractiveness as another important dimension upon which approach-avoidance behaviours may be based. In Experiments 1-3, we measured participants' responses to attractive and unattractive women's faces in an ...
Robin S.S. Kramer +6 more
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Journal of Statistical Physics, 2015 We prove that the complex conjugate (c.c.) eigenvalues of a smoothly varying real matrix attract (Eq. 15). We offer a dynamical perspective on the motion and interaction of the eigenvalues in the complex plane, derive their governing equations and discuss applications. C.c. pairs closest to the real axis, or those that are ill-conditioned, attract most
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European Journal of Entomology, 2006 At five sites in Hungary and Italy, traps baited with phenylacetaldehyde caught significantly higher numbers (10 to 100 times more) of green lacewings than unbaited traps, which demonstrates that this compound is an attractant.
Miklós TÓTH +8 more
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