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Experimental shifts in egg–nest contrasts do not alter egg rejection responses in an avian host–parasite system [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Obligate brood parasitic birds exploit their hosts to provide care for unrelated young in the nest. Potential hosts can reduce the cost of parasitism by rejecting foreign eggs from the nest.
Aidala, Zachary   +4 more
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String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
wiley   +1 more source

Does Neuroticism Disrupt the Psychological Benefits of Nostalgia? A Meta‐analytic Test

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract Nostalgia, a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, confers self‐oriented, existential, and social benefits. We examined whether nostalgic engagement is less beneficial for individuals who are high in neuroticism (i.e. emotionally unstable and prone to negative affect).
Julius Frankenbach   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Partners or passengers? Revisiting the association between diatoms and aquatic animals

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Numerous studies have revealed the importance of research on the communities capable of colonizing animal surfaces (epibionts) and the animals on which they live (basibionts). Very few studies have considered epizoic diatoms, and there are gaps and biases in our knowledge, including the choice of basibionts, the methods used, and the habitats ...
Gianluca Vacca   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Henry Frisch's House in Egg Harbor City, NJ

open access: yes, 1890
This is a photograph of Henry Frisch's house at 130 Cincinnati Ave. in Egg Harbor City, NJ. The house is across from The NEWS office and between the Doernbach and Bubeck houses. The Frisch's took in boarders going from Philadelphia to Atlantic City.

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Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Semelparity, the reproductive strategy of reproducing once, is widespread but uncommon in animals. Classes of models to explain the evolution of semelparity are based either on age structure and mortality schedules – demographic models in which high post‐reproductive mortality risk favours high reproductive effort and semelparity results from ...
Diana O. Fisher   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

1906 Public School Directory, Egg Harbor City, NJ

open access: yes, 1906
This 23 page directory was published by the City of Egg Harbor City school board in 1906. It lists the names of all the teachers and administrators of the public schools of Egg Harbor dating to the 1880s.

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The influence of circadian variables on ecotoxicology metabolomics

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ecotoxicologists are using metabolomics increasingly to gain insight into toxicological mechanisms and sublethal effects of chemical exposures. Metabolomics offers a sensitive multi‐parameter approach that can detect biochemical responses not obvious using apical and behavioural endpoints.
Ryan I. Lester   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Egg Harbor City Moravian Church, 1880 - 1890

open access: yes, 1880
This photograph depicts the Egg Harbor City Moravian Church, Boston Avenue, circa 1880 to 1890. Although the Moravian Church is a fairly large building, generously decorated with tall, stained-glass windows, its general design is elegantly simplistic ...

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