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duck (n)

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duck nNow, you'd pitch your rock, see, an' if you didn't knock off the duck...well, now, if you pitched the rock...the rock, an' knocked off the duck an' knocked it out there an' runned up for to get your rock again,an' didn't get him,see, before ...

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Duck Pond - kinetic sculpture, women feeding duck

open access: yes, 1990
Two women seated on hill south of Duck Pond feeding a duck, person reclining on grass, person standing, trees, kinetic sculpture, and Zimmerman Library in ...

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Wildlife management in the United States – thoughts on evolving to better address species overabundance and disease transmission

open access: yesWildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
Management options and actions are important for responsibly working to keep populations of sometimes overabundant species of invasive and native wildlife at levels that keep damage (e.g., agricultural, environmental, human health and safety) and disease (e.g., species specific, shared with livestock, zoonotic) associated with them at acceptable levels.
Kurt C. VerCauteren
wiley   +1 more source

Wood duck

open access: yes, 2012
A wood duck sits under shrubs and other plants, and some trash is ...

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MRPose: Multi‐Robot Relative 6D Pose Estimation for Unseen Objects From RGB Images

open access: yesCAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Relative pose estimation under the query–reference paradigm has emerged as a practical alternative for estimating the 6D pose of unseen objects without relying on CAD models or extensive annotations. However, many existing approaches remain difficult to deploy in practice, as their reliance on geometric matching makes robustness highly ...
Jiale Ren   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Iterative phase retrieval in macromolecular crystal diffraction using the gradients of intensities

open access: yesJournal of Applied Crystallography, EarlyView.
Incorporating molecular intensity gradients into an iterative projection algorithm enables model‐free electron‐density reconstruction even for low‐solvent macromolecular crystals.Iterative phase retrieval (IPR) offers a model‐independent route to crystallographic structure determination but is fundamentally limited by the sampling of the diffraction ...
Sebastian Bielfeldt   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recommendations to Reform the National Electricity Market (NEM)

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM) was established in the late 1990s. The market is an energy only gross pool with zonal (state‐based) pricing. Over the past 15 years, the system has undergone a profound transformation as large coal‐fired power stations have retired and substantial volumes of large‐scale and embedded behind the ...
Tim Nelson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of the Eastern Mediterranean in human evolution: recent results from Greece Le rôle du Bassin méditerranéen oriental dans l’évolution humaine : résultats récents en Grèce

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The Eastern Mediterranean lies directly on the principal migration route for human groups dispersing across Africa, Europe, and Asia. It also encompasses the Balkans, where fauna and flora, as well as hominin populations, are thought to have persisted through glacial periods.
Katerina Harvati
wiley   +1 more source

Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
wiley   +1 more source

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