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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
wiley   +1 more source

Cultivating Curiosity: What is Hip Hop Studies, & What Is It Doing at an Institute of Technology?

open access: yes, 2021
Presented online on February 25, 2021 at 5:00 p.m.Joycelyn Wilson is an integrative curriculum designer, essayist, music journalist, and assistant professor of hip hop studies and digital media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at ...
Wilson, Joycelyn
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Flexoelectricity in Photoconversion: Fundamentals, Materials, and Outlooks

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Mechanical bending of a flexible cantilever induces a strain gradient in the photoactive material. The resulting flexoelectric field couples with photovoltaic and photoconductive effects, modulating charge generation, separation, and collection. A comparative analysis of oxide perovskites, halide perovskites, and two‐dimensional materials is presented,
Xiang Huang, Feng Li, Rongkun Zheng
wiley   +1 more source

The Curiosity Conversation: Maud Sulter - Significant Others

open access: yes
A podcast to accompany the online and digital work and intervention at the Wardlaw Museum as part of the MLitt Museum & Gallery Studies programme at University of St Andrews.
Thompson, Susannah
core   +5 more sources

Curiosity and pleasure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
It is a commonplace that natural or intellectual curiosity is valuable: it is encouraged in children, esteemed in scientists, protected in academia.
Brady, Michael S.
core  

Charting the Future of Stereoselective Carbohydrate Synthesis: The Essential Role of Cross‐Disciplinary Innovation

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Cross‐disciplinary endeavors are blossoming across the broad chemical sciences. This perspective provides a glimpse into the rewarding interdisciplinary journey taken by the Charles Loh research group in pioneering the σ‐hole based catalytic glycosylation strategy.
Charles C. J. Loh
wiley   +1 more source

Miniatures between East and West: The Art(s) of Diplomacy in Thomas Roe’s Embassy

open access: yesEtudes Epistémè, 2014
Following his arrival at Jahangir’s imperial court, Thomas Roe – the first duly accredited English ambassador to India – presented the Emperor with a miniature by Isaac Oliver, a gift deemed worthy of the occasion by Wazir Asaf Khan.
Anne-Valérie Dulac
doaj   +1 more source

Extended Anionic Network in Mixed‐Valent Nitridocobaltates(I/II) LnCo2N2 (Ln = La, Pr, Nd)

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This study presents the high‐pressure synthesis of LnCo2N2 (Ln = La, Pr, Nd) with Co in mixed valent states of +I/+II. The compounds demonstrate the stabilization of a nitridocobaltate with extended anionic Co–N layers where Co is threefold coordinated.
Nina A. M. Prinz   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Women Ask, Does Curiosity Help?

open access: yesSocial Sciences
This research examines the potential social benefits of displaying curiosity during a negotiation. Past research has found women who ask directly in distributive agentic settings can suffer negative social consequences and obtain worse objective outcomes
Alexandra Mislin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Représenter le corps anatomisé aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles : entre curiosité et vanité

open access: yesEtudes Epistémè, 2015
In the Renaissance era, curiosity about anatomy promoted a new visiblity of the body whose insides were now represented. As a visible figure hiding the secrets of life, the body as mirabilia induced libido sciendi : one opened the body to see and to know.
Antoinette Gimaret
doaj   +1 more source

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