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A multi‐trait evaluation of patterns and fitness consequences of breeding phenology plasticity with nocturnal warming and food restriction in a lizard

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Faced with climate warming, ectothermic species shift their breeding phenology, which is in part attributed to an acceleration of gestation or incubation in warmer environments.
Théo Bodineau   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Applying Science Models for Search [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The paper proposes three different kinds of science models as value-added services that are integrated in the retrieval process to enhance retrieval quality.
Mayr, Philipp   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Why do politicians employ public–private partnerships? Results from a mixed‐method study

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Public–private partnerships (PPPs) have become increasingly common in government infrastructure programs around the world. This study collates and categorises the types of rationales that scholars have identified as the reasons for governments to use PPPs.
Sebastian Zwalf
wiley   +1 more source

The Early Role of the Attorney General in Our Constitutional Scheme: In the Beginning There Was Pragmatism [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
This article attempts to accomplish two distinct but related objectives. First, it initiates the proposed systematic study of the Office of the Attorney General by examining its early role.
Bloch, Susan Low
core   +2 more sources

Power-law Distributions in Information Science - Making the Case for Logarithmic Binning

open access: yes, 2010
We suggest partial logarithmic binning as the method of choice for uncovering the nature of many distributions encountered in information science (IS). Logarithmic binning retrieves information and trends "not visible" in noisy power-law tails.
Bookstein   +23 more
core   +1 more source

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Citation Analysis of Science Doctoral Theses in Physics Submitted to Bangalore University Bangalore, Karnataka, India. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The present paper addresses to research performance of Department of Physics, Bangalore University, Bangalore, Karnataka. This study covers 2485 citations.
Mallinath Kumbar, ., Somashekara, Y.L.
core  

Science Models as Value-Added Services for Scholarly Information Systems

open access: yes, 2011
The paper introduces scholarly Information Retrieval (IR) as a further dimension that should be considered in the science modeling debate. The IR use case is seen as a validation model of the adequacy of science models in representing and predicting ...
A Al-Maskari   +43 more
core   +1 more source

Why do people cooperate with the police and criminal courts? A test of procedural justice theory in 30 countries

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents a cross‐national test of the portability of procedural justice theory (PJT). Drawing on nationally representative survey data from 30 diverse social, political, and legal contexts across Europe and beyond, we find that the theory travels well across national borders and that its psychological purchase is particularly ...
Jonathan Jackson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Citation Analysis of Chemistry Doctoral Dissertations in Tehran and Tarbiat Modarres Universities (1996-2004) [PDF]

open access: yesتحقیقات کتابداری و اطلاع‌رسانی دانشگاهی, 2007
The object of this study is to survey and compare the citing behavior of chemical doctoral students in Tehran and Tarbiat Modarres universities. This study clarifies the characteristics of cited resources and determines their differences and similarities.
Rostam Mozaffari Gorabba   +2 more
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