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Insects, 2022 Fluctuating asymmetry (FA) may serve as a reliable indicator of the functional importance of structures within an organism. Primary locomotor structures often display lower levels of FA than other paired structures, highlighting that selection can ...
Matthew R. Whalen +4 more
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Fluctuating asymmetry and environmental stress : understanding the role of trait history [PDF]
, 2013 While fluctuating asymmetry (FA; small, random deviations from perfect symmetry in bilaterally symmetrical traits) is widely regarded as a proxy for environmental and genetic stress effects, empirical associations between FA and stress are often weak or ...
Alcantara-Exposito, Angelica +6 more
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Evidence for directional testes asymmetry in Hyla gongshanensis jindongensis
Acta Herpetologica, 2017 The compensation hypothesis predicts that one testis may grow more for compensating for a reduced function in the other testis, thus exhibiting a directional asymmetry in testis size. In this study, we tested the prediction of the compensation hypothesis
Qing Gui Wu, Wen Bo Liao
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Sphenoid bone is more asymmetrical than palatine bone among small ruminants
Journal of Applied Animal Research, 2021 A sample comprised by 53 dry modern skulls of adult small ruminants (sheep n = 36 and goat n = 17) from a comparative collection, absent of bony pathologies, was studied on their basal craniofacial aspect.
Pere M. Parés-Casanova +1 more
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The accuracy of three-dimensional prediction of soft tissue changes following the surgical correction of facial asymmetry: an innovative concept [PDF]
, 2017 The accuracy of three-dimensional (3D) predictions of soft tissue changes in the surgical correction of facial asymmetry was evaluated in this study. Preoperative (T1) and 6–12-month postoperative (T2) cone beam computed tomography scans of 13 patients ...
Almukhtar, A. +3 more
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Directional Asymmetry in Sociological Analyses
Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 2017 The authors present a straightforward method for assessing symmetry and asymmetry in the effect of an independent variable, on the basis of its direction of change, on a dependent variable in statistical models and provide two different empirical illustrations: (1) the effect of economic change on electricity production in nations and (2) the effect ...
Richard York, Ryan Light
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Orbital asymmetries in tamarins of the genus Saguinus (Primates, Callitrichidae) [PDF]
Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa”The aim of this study was to analyse the orbital asymmetry in Saguinus skulls. The examination was conducted on 13 dry well-preserved skulls, belonging to different species of the genus Saguinus. The sample was studied by means of geometric morphological
Pere M. Parés-Casanova +1 more
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Skull directional asymmetry in companion rabbit [PDF]
, 2019 La asimetría fluctuante se caracteriza por desviaciones sutiles y aleatorias en rasgos bilateralmente simétricos, y la asimetría direccional por una distribución sesgada hacia uno de los lados (derecho o izquierdo). Para el análisis de ellas en el cráneo
Medina, Anabel +1 more
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Earth's Stopping Effect in Directional Dark Matter Detectors [PDF]
, 2015 We explore the stopping effect that results from interactions between dark matter and nuclei as the dark matter particles travel undergound towards the detector. Although this effect is negligible for heavy dark matter particles, there is parameter phase
Kouvaris, Chris
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Directional asymmetry in lexical tone perception [PDF]
Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 2019 Directional asymmetries in cross-linguistic vowel discrimination, in which a change from a less peripheral vowel to a more peripheral vowel was found easier to detect than the reverse direction, has been well documented. However, the perceptual processes underlying the phenomenon remain to be fully understood.
Ratree Wayland +3 more
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