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The temporal environmental correlates of spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) encounters with livestock enclosures: Insights from central Kenya

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
We studied spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) encounters with livestock enclosures, an important but understudied stage of the livestock depredation process. Using camera traps, we examined how encounter probability and timing varied with rainfall, moonlight, and temperature. Our findings deepen our understanding of hyena behavior around livestock and may
Anna M. Ahlberg   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Time‐Course of Attainment and Reversal of Thermal Acclimation in the Invasive Fall Armyworm

open access: yesEntomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
Heat acclimation was elicited within minutes with stronger responses at higher temperatures while cold acclimation provided no measurable plastic benefit in the invasive fall armyworm. Prolonged high‐temperature acclimation enhanced heat tolerance and delayed reversal of physiological gains while reversal of acclimation was temperature‐dependent ...
Macdonald Mubayiwa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Time to link camel genomics and traits by bridging the phenotypic gap

open access: yesFrontiers in Genetics
Camels (Camelus dromedarius and Camelus bactrianus) are indispensable to the economy and culture of arid and semi-arid regions, providing milk, meat, transportation, and labor while demonstrating remarkable adaptations to extreme environments.
Faisal Almathen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Atlantic trade and the West African market economy: New evidence from cowry imports, 1650–1905

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, billions of cowries arrived in West Africa, leaving one of the few quantitative traces available for historians to measure the Atlantic trade's impact on the precolonial market economy. Yet, current estimates substantially underestimate the volume of cowry imports.
María José Pont Cháfer
wiley   +1 more source

Troops wrestling on camel back, Palestine, approximately 1917, 1.

open access: yes, 1917
Title devised by cataloguer.; Part of the collection: Imperial Camel Corps in Palestine, 1917-1918.; Ferguson collection.; Inscriptions: "Wrestling on camel back.

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Parent child contact problems—Re‐connecting the dots through a somatic lens

open access: yesFamily Court Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Parent child contact problems (PCCP) and parental alienation (PA) occupy much time for family law professionals especially as parents might use the term PA loosely, for the parent allegedly doing PA and the parent experiencing PA. Negotiating safety, connection and distance are fundamental to PCCP.
Maureen Mueller
wiley   +1 more source

Concentrations in D- and L-lactate in raw cow and camel milk

open access: yes, 2019
The present study gives some preliminary result regarding the content of the D- and L-lactate in cow and camel milk. Twenty dromedary camel milk samples and 3 cow milk samples from Kazakhstan were analysed to determine the lactate forms in order to ...
Baubekova, Almagul   +5 more
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Novel assessment of facial skin displacement across age groups using a custom‐designed imaging device: Evidence from French women

open access: yesInternational Journal of Cosmetic Science, EarlyView.
Deformation fields of skin displacements indicated by vectors in a 22‐year‐old participant (a) and a 65‐year‐old volunteer (b) in different positions. These vectors represent the direction and magnitude of skin displacement at each point on the facial surface.
Remo Campiche   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of Regulatory Office Closures on Bank Behavior

open access: yesJournal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.
Abstract We investigate if the decentralized structure of regulatory office networks influences supervisory outcomes and bank behavior. Following the closure of an office, banks previously supervised by that office increase their lending and risk‐taking.
IVAN LIM, JENS HAGENDORFF, SETH ARMITAGE
wiley   +1 more source

Camel saddling competition between troops, Palestine, approximately 1917.

open access: yes, 1917
Title devised by cataloguer.; Part of the collection: Imperial Camel Corps in Palestine, 1917-1918.; Ferguson collection.; Inscriptions: "Saddling-up competition.

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