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Employing a Hysteresis Approach to Analyze Shifts in Tree Physiological Thresholds in Response to Drought

Plant, Cell &Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drought‐induced tree mortality underscores the need for improved physiological models to predict tree responses to water stress. We employed a hysteresis modelling approach analyzing diel water absorption and desorption cycles to understand drought‐induced shifts in physiological thresholds.
Mauro Brum, Annie Deslauriers, Matthew Vadeboncoeur, Tanner Frost, David Moore, Caroline Rodrigues da Silva, Daniel B. Metcalfe, Heidi Asbjornsen   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Poetry and Humor Get Hitched [PDF]

, 2017
Through humor, poetry explores the imagination and the mind just as it does through other means of expression. Comic poetry finds the truth in the illogical and in the absurd; it finds what unsettles us through its use of surprise; it finds delight and ...
Hartselle, Christian
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Drivers of planted seedling survival and growth in a Mediterranean‐climate woodland restoration experiment

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction The restoration of degraded ecosystems is an important means of promoting and conserving biodiversity. However, restoration projects on average fail to reach target biodiversity levels within the time frames they are studied. Competition from non‐native groundlayer grasses and forbs, potential facilitative effects of plant–plant ...
Joe Atkinson, John M. Dwyer, Tom Le Breton, Alexandria Thomsen, Baptiste J. Wijas, Richard J. Hobbs, Kristin B. Hulvey, Tim Morald, Angela T. Moles, Stephen P. Bonser, Michael P. Perring, Rachel J. Standish   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Les sujets-textes d’examen en breton. Présentation et analyse exploratoire d’un corpus textuel d’évaluation en langue bretonne

La Bretagne Linguistique
A great deal of attention is paid to the positioning and knowledge of learners' level of mastery of the Breton language, but this is not accompanied by consideration of the materials and tools used to assess language skills. What texts are used in Breton
Fabrice David
doaj   +1 more source

Modern Narcissus: the lingering reflections of myth in modern art [PDF]

, 2011
Why has myth continued to fascinate modern artists, and why the myth of Narcissus, with its modern association with narcissism? This article considers the relationship between the Narcissus myth and the lineage of modern art that runs from Symbolism to ...
Loreti, Silvia
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Contestation and Compromise in Shaping the European Union's Corporate Sustainability due Diligence Directive: Implications for Global Value Chain Governance

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the European Union's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) in the context of ongoing debates on private and public governance of global value chains (GVCs). Conceptually, it draws on neo‐Gramscian perspectives to analyze how contestation and compromise between distinct stakeholders and dynamics of hegemony
Louise Curran, Matthew Alford, Khalid Nadvi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
wiley   +1 more source

Le Marais Breton Loire-Atlantique : la qualification paysagère d'un marais oublié

Sciences, Eaux & Territoires, 2002
Cette étude sur le paysage et les actions publiques dans le Marais Breton Loire-Atlantique aborde successivement : le bilan des actions publiques concernant l'espace du Marais Breton, la pertinence du Marais Breton en tant qu'espace d'intervention, et le
S. LEFLOCH, J. CANDAU
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Tudor England and Stewart Scotland Through Spanish Eyes: A Complete Transcription and Translation of Pedro de Ayala's Letter of 1498 to King Ferdinand of Castile and Queen Isabella of Aragon

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a letter, partly in cipher, to report to his king and queen on such matters as Spain's interests in international diplomacy; the characters and ...
Adrian William Jaime, Valeria Tapia Cruz, Mairi Cowan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Immune system benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a respiratory disease characterized by pulmonary and systemic inflammation. Inflammatory mediators show relationships with shortness of breath, exercise intolerance and health related quality of life. Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR), a comprehensive education and exercise training programme, is the
Asghar Abbasi, David Wang, William W. Stringer, Richard Casaburi, Harry B. Rossiter   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source