Results 131 to 140 of about 15,905,749 (308)

El Nino: The Child Returns

open access: yes, 2000
El Nino: The Child Returns belongs to a series of online modules entitled Exploring the Environment. Emphasizing an integrated approach to environmental earth science through problem-based learning, this module asks students to give forecasting advice ...

core  

Why don't all birds lay early? Causes and consequences of breeding timing for a long‐lived migratory seabird

open access: yesJournal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Why don't all birds lay early? Our 16‐year study of Manx shearwater behaviour shows that selection on breeding timing fluctuates among years. We also find that lay dates are influenced by persistent individual differences, variation in non‐breeding duration, and pair synchrony, potentially constraining breeding phenological advancement under ongoing ...
Katrina Siddiqi‐Davies   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent progress in studies of the last million years of human physical and behavioural evolution Avancées récentes dans l’étude du dernier million d'années d’évolution physique et éthologique de l'espèce humaine

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article presents a synthesis of recent developments in the study of human evolution over the past five years. It begins with an overview of hominin species nomenclature and diversity, followed by an examination of the proposed population bottleneck ∼900,000 years ago.
James Cole   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Whip up some El Nino pudding!

open access: yes
This resource introduces El Nino, bridging from simple artist diagrams to satellite imagery. An activity has students recreate El Nino conditions in edible, tasty pudding.

core  

El Nino possibly strongest ever recorded

open access: yes, 1997
Possible the biggest El Nino in 150 ...
Palo Alto Daily News
core  

“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
wiley   +1 more source

PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
wiley   +1 more source

Nino Barbantini. Notizie biografiche

open access: yes, 1995
Focus sulla poliedrica figura di Nino ...
Nico Stringa, STRINGA, Nico
core  

Baseline Cortisol and Behavioral Phenotype Are Linked to Context‐Dependent Spatial Cognition and Space Use in Giant Pandas

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Baseline cortisol and repeatable behavioral phenotypes were associated with context‐dependent spatial cognition in giant pandas. Individuals differed in spatial search performance under stable and changing resource conditions. Exploratory GPS analyses revealed directionally consistent but non‐significant patterns of space use in novel environments ...
Yuxin Jiang   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

El Nino: The Weather Maker

open access: yes
This lesson focuses upon the scientific phenomenon of El Nino. Learners will also explore the possible link between human-induced global warming, and El Nino as a possible distributor of global warming's extra energy. Links to related sites are included.

core  

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy