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Subterranean environments contribute to three‐quarters of classified ecosystem services

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Beneath the Earth's surface lies a network of interconnected caves, voids, and systems of fissures forming in rocks of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic origin. Although largely inaccessible to humans, this hidden realm supports and regulates services critical to ecological health and human well‐being.
Stefano Mammola, David Brankovits, Tiziana Di Lorenzo, Isabel R. Amorim, Raluca Ioana Bancila, Adrià Bellvert, Enrico Bernard, Anna Blomberg, Paulo A.V. Borges, Martina Cappelletti, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, Rosalina Gabriel, Diana M. P. Galassi, Laura Garzoli, Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Grant C. Hose, Kathryn L. Korbel, Simone Martino, Ana Z Miller, Nataša Mori, Veronica Nanni, Giuseppe Nicolosi, Mattia Saccò, Troy S. Sakihara, Marconi Souza Silva, Anne E. Tamalavage, Maja Zagmajster, Efraín Chávez, Christian Griebler, Pedro Cardoso, Alejandro Martínez   +30 more
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THE INTEGRATION OF WOOD CARVING SKILLS INTO TEACHING AND LEARNING OF WOOD CARVING

Artistic
Wood carving has been an integral part of many ethnic groups in Ghana and worldwide. Currently, Ghanaian wood carvers produce countless varieties of wooden sculptures for tourist trade or export. The wood carving business in Vakpo has provided employment
Thomas Brown Kow Archer, Agyei Isaac Kwabene, Joe Adu-Agyem, Dickson Adom   +3 more
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EVOLUTION OF SKIING DEVELOPMNENT AND SKIING TECHNIQUES [PDF]

Sport Mont, 2011
The subject of the evolution and development of skiing techniques is attention directed to the development of skiing and specific techniques in the world and Montenegro.
Blažo Jabučanin, Đordje Đurović
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Three ways of resisting essentialism about natural kinds [PDF]

, 2011
Essentialism about natural kinds has three tenets. The first tenet is that all and only members of a natural kind has some essential properties. The second tenet is that these essential properties play a causal role.
Nanay, Bence
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Teacher–Student Relationship Quality as a Mediator in the Association of Parent–Child Communication With Adolescent Bullying Perpetration and Substance Use: Evidence From the 2017/2018 HBSC Study

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bullying perpetration and substance use are two prevalent and concerning forms of delinquent behavior worldwide. Although parent–child communication has been theorized to reduce adolescents' involvement in these behaviors, empirical evidence remains mixed.
Hang Zhou, Ji‐Kang Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in Archery Equipment in Eastern Europe of the IX-X Centuries According to Experimental Archaeology. Further Perspectives for Study through Archaeological Research and Observation

Поволжская археология
Antler overlays-plates for strengthening bows, which appeared in the Hunnic period, underwent significant changes by the IX and X centuries and soon disappeared. There is an opinion that these ear and grip plates were used to strengthen the joints during
Türk Attila, Wilhelm Ákos S. , Paku Sándor   +2 more
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Heterozygous Med13l mice recapitulate a developmental growth delay and craniofacial anomalies seen in MED13L syndrome

Developmental Dynamics, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Gene transcription is crucial for embryo and postnatal development and is regulated by the Mediator complex. Mediator is comprised of four submodules, including the kinase submodule (CKM). The CKM consists of MED13, MED12, CDK8, and CCNC.
Anna K. Leinheiser, Timothy T. Nguyen, Kayla M. Henry, Mariela Rosales, Eric Van Otterloo, Chad E. Grueter   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Weakly supervised 3D Reconstruction with Adversarial Constraint

, 2017
Supervised 3D reconstruction has witnessed a significant progress through the use of deep neural networks. However, this increase in performance requires large scale annotations of 2D/3D data.
Chandraker, Manmohan, Choy, Christopher B., Garg, Animesh, Gwak, JunYoung, Savarese, Silvio   +4 more
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Virtual Reality Externalization (VR‐E) for Patients With Eating Disorders: A Pilot Study

International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Despite significant health and psychosocial impairments, many individuals with eating disorders (ED) view their disorder as an integral part of their identity. Because this “ego‐syntonicity” is associated with low treatment motivation and treatment dropouts, we investigated the acceptability, feasibility, and effects of a newly ...
Samuel P. E. Mehranfar, Georg Halbeisen, Karsten Braks, Thomas J. Huber, Georgios Paslakis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Carving up Papua: more districts, more trouble [PDF]

This report argues that the rapid proliferation of new districts in Papua is strengthening the political influence of highlanders at the expense of the traditionally dominant coast, but it is also producing new conflicts and complicating the search ...

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