Dependent Interviewing and Sub-Optimal Responding [PDF]
Survey Research Methods, 2015 With proactive dependent interviewing (PDI) respondents are reminded of the answer they gave in the previous interview, before being asked about their current status. PDI is used in panel surveys to assist respondent recall and reduce spurious changes in
Johannes Eggs, Annette Jäckle
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Eine Form des ‘uneigentlichen’ Sprechens : Die Ironie [PDF]
, 1979 In der neueren linguistischen Literatur wird Ironie oft im Zusammenhang mit Witz, Humor, Spott, dem Komischen usw. behandelt. So kommt STEMPEL in seiner Untersuchung »Ironie als-Sprechhandlung« zu folgendem Ergebnis: Ziel der ironischen Handlung sei die
Eggs, Ekkehard
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Egg shape changes at the theropod–bird transition, and a morphometric study of amniote eggs [PDF]
, 2014 The eggs of amniotes exhibit a remarkable variety of shapes, from spherical to elongate and from symmetrical to asymmetrical. We examine eggshell geometry in a diverse sample of fossil and living amniotes using geometric morphometrics and linear ...
Abramoff MD +14 more
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Killing and replacing queen-laid eggs: low cost of worker policing in the honey bee [PDF]
, 2014 Worker honeybees, Apis mellifera, police each other’s reproduction by killing worker-laid eggs. Previous experiments demonstrated that worker policing is effective, killing most (∼98%) worker-laid eggs. However, many queen-laid eggs were also killed (∼50%
Kärcher, Martin H +1 more
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Egg Production in the Boxelder Bug \u3ci\u3eBoisea Trivittata\u3c/i\u3e (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae) [PDF]
, 2018 Boxelder bug females emerged from overwintering sites in the spring and rapidly provisioned eggs with yolk materials. Five discrete egg stages were identified based on egg size, protein content, and degree of chorion sclerotization.
Grimnes, Karin A +2 more
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Artificial Neural Networks for Predicting Food Antiradical Potential
Applied Sciences, 2022 Using an artificial neural network (ANN), the values of the antiradical potential of 1315 items of food and agricultural raw materials were calculated. We used an ANN with the structure of a “multilayer perceptron” (MLP) and with the hyberbolic tangent ...
Victor Gorbachev +11 more
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Estimating the Number of Eggs per Egg Mass of the Forest Tent Caterpillar, Malacosoma Disstria (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) [PDF]
, 2017 Calculation of the number of eggs per egg mass of the forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria Hiibner, is required in survey and population studies. Eggs are usually laid in cylindrical masses around twigs of trees.
Kulman, H. M., Witter, J. A.
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HETEROPHIL LYMPHOCYTE RATIO AS A MEASURE OF STRESS IN TWO STRAINS OF CHICKEN [PDF]
Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, 1997 The H/L ratio was studied in IWN and IWP strains of white Leghorn maintained in cage as well as deep litter. The birds were under heat stress due to the peak summer temperature of 36° C.
N. Vijayan, L.P. Rema
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Influence of Natural Inshore and Offshore Thermal Regimes on Egg Development and Time of Hatch in American lobsters, Homarus americanus [PDF]
, 2015 Some egg-bearing (ovigerous) American lobsters (Homarus americanus) make seasonal inshore-to-offshore movements, subjecting their eggs to different thermal regimes than those of eggs carried by lobsters that do not make these movements.
Goldstein, Jason S. +1 more
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Structure and function of the musculoskeletal ovipositor system of an ichneumonid wasp
BMC Zoology, 2018 Background Modifications of the ovipositor appear to have played a prominent role in defining the host range of parasitoid hymenopterans, highlighting an important contributing factor in shaping their oviposition strategies, life histories and ...
Benjamin Eggs +3 more
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