Características histológicas del útero de Sympterygia acuta (Garman, 1877) y Sympterygia bonapartii (Müller & Henle, 1841) (Chondrichthyes; Rajidae) [PDF]
Los condrictios constituyen un clado sumamente conservado y vulnerable a la explotación, que ha cobrado una importancia creciente en los últimos años. Sin embargo, existe poca información sobre los aspectos morfológicos relacionados con la reproducción ...
Díaz Andrade, María Constanza +2 more
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Interpersonal Connections and Career Mobility in Bureaucratic Labor Markets: Evidence From Brazil
ABSTRACT Interpersonal networks are pervasive in state bureaucracies around the world. To what extent do they explain bureaucratic career trajectories? And are they driven more by political patronage and connections to influential bosses, or by information‐sharing and trust‐building among peers?
Danilo Cardoso +6 more
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Hatching Strategies in Monogenean (Platyhelminth) Parasites that Facilitate Host Infection [PDF]
In parasites, environmental cues may influence hatching of eggs and enhance the success of infections. The two major endoparasitic groups of parasitic platyhelminths, cestodes (tapeworms) and digeneans (flukes), typically have high fecundity, infect more
Armstrong +13 more
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Eye Movement Dynamics in the Dogfish [PDF]
ABSTRACT A method is described of obtaining the relationship between electrical stimulation of the abducens nerve and horizontal eye movement in the dogfish. The stump of the Vlth nerve was stimulated intracranially in a fish in which the brain had been removed, but in which the circulation remained intact, and the gills were perfused ...
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ABSTRACT To address the shortcomings associated with state ownership, countries have implemented various legal strategies to curb political influence in state‐owned enterprises. This research studies whether these strategies constrain the government's ability to use their appointment powers for political considerations.
Pablo Torres
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Sharks - The State of the Science [PDF]
The biological characteristics of sharks make them particularly vulnerable to overfishing. They grow slowly, become sexually mature relatively late and produce few offspring.
Alexia C. Morgan
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Blue plaque review series: Thomas Graham Brown: Before his time
Abstract Thomas Graham Brown made a seminal discovery, published in 1911 while he was a Carnegie Fellow in the University of Liverpool laboratory of Nobel Prize winner Charles S. Sherrington. Working in cats, he showed that rhythmic ‘voluntary’ behaviour, such as stepping and, by inference, walking, does not result from a chain of reflex events, but ...
Ronald L. Calabrese, Eve Marder
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New record of Squalus cubensis Howell Rivero, 1936 (Chondrichthyes, Squalidae) in Colombia
Two Cuban dogfish Squalus cubensis (Squalidae) are recorded for the first time in the area of influence of Isla Fuerte, an island located at the limit of the southern continental shelf of the Colombian Caribbean.
Diana María Orozco-Velásquez +1 more
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European Shark Fisheries: A Preliminary Investigation into Fisheries, Conversion Factors, Trade Products, Markets and Management Measures [PDF]
Recommends new regulations to prevent shark finning -- an illegal practice in which a shark's fins are removed and its carcass dumped at sea -- and stresses the urgent need for effective shark conservation ...
Bernard Seret +11 more
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Adoption of Digital Technologies in Public Health Crises: An International Large‐Scale Survey
ABSTRACT Objectives To examine nurses’ adoption and use of digital technologies across six countries during the COVID‐19 pandemic and identify lessons to strengthen preparedness for future public health crises. Methods Nurses in Australia, Finland, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States completed an international cross ...
Laura‐Maria Peltonen +9 more
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