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Rifting and arc-related early Paleozoic volcanism along the North Gondwana margin: geochemical and geological evidence from Sardinia (Italy) [PDF]

, 2012
Three series of volcanic rocks accumulated during the Cambrian to Silurian in the metasediment-dominated Variscan basement of Sardinia. They provide a record of the changing geodynamic setting of the North Gondwana margin between Upper Cambrian and ...
BUZZI L, FUNEDDA A., GAGGERO L, OGGIANO G   +3 more
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Learning Ability and Hippocampal Transcriptome Responses to Early and Later Life Environmental Complexities in Dual-Purpose Chicks

Animals, 2022
In this study, we hypothesized that complex early-life environments enhance the learning ability and the hippocampal plasticity when the individual is faced with future life challenges.
Chao Yan, Wen Liu, Jinlong Xiao, Hai Xiang, Jikun Wang, Hui Zhang, Jian Liu, Siyu Chen, Xingbo Zhao   +8 more
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Randomized trial of polychromatic blue-enriched light for circadian phase shifting, melatonin suppression, and alerting responses. [PDF]

, 2019
Wavelength comparisons have indicated that circadian phase-shifting and enhancement of subjective and EEG-correlates of alertness have a higher sensitivity to short wavelength visible light.
Ayers, M., Brainard, G. C., Byrne, B., Cecil, K., Gerner, E., Hanifin, J. P., Jablonski, M., James, M., Lockley, S. W., Pineda, C., Rollag, M., Warfield, B., West, K.   +12 more
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Home-cage behavior is impacted by stress exposure in rats

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2023
Being social animals, rats exhibit a range of social behaviors that help them build social bonds and maintain group cohesion. Behavior is influenced by multiple factors, including stress exposure, and the expression of the impact of stress on both social
Evren Eraslan, Evren Eraslan, Evren Eraslan, Magda João Castelhano-Carlos, Magda João Castelhano-Carlos, Liliana Amorim, Liliana Amorim, Liliana Amorim, Carina Soares-Cunha, Carina Soares-Cunha, Ana João Rodrigues, Ana João Rodrigues, Nuno Sousa, Nuno Sousa, Nuno Sousa, Nuno Sousa   +15 more
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An Enriched Environment Improves Sensorimotor Function Post-Ischemic Stroke [PDF]

, 2010
Objective. An enriched environment (EE) refers to conditions that facilitate or enhance sensory, cognitive, motor, and social stimulation relative to standard (laboratory) conditions.
Attia, John, Bernhardt, Julie, Calford, Mike B., Collier, Janice M., Howells, David W., Janssen, Heidi, McElduff, Patrick, Nilsson, Michael, Pollack, Michael, Sena, Emily S., Spratt, Neil J.   +10 more
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Shape anisotropy of polymers in disordered environment [PDF]

, 2001
We study the influence of structural obstacles in a disordered environment on the size and shape characteristics of long flexible polymer macromolecules.
Blavatska, Viktoria, Janke, Wolfhard
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Transdisciplinary innovation in irrigated smallholder agriculture in Africa [PDF]

, 2020
Boosting the productivity of smallholder farming systems continues to be a major need in Africa. Challenges relating to how to improve irrigation are multi‐factor and multisectoral, and they involve a broad range of actors who must interact to reach ...
Ajmi, Tarek, Albasha, Rami, Bah, Sékou, Bahri, Haithem, Barberá, Gonzalo, Bouarfa, Sami, Cheviron, Bruno, Chishala, Benson, Coulibaly, Yacouba M., de Clercq, Willem, De Miguel Garcia, Angel, Diawara, Bandiougou, Dicko, Mohamed Koulan, Dolinska, Aleksandra, Ducrot, Raphaèle, Erkossa, Teklu, et al.,, Famba, Sebastião, Fissahaye, Degol, Froebrich, Jochen, Habtu, Salomon, Hanafi, Salia, Harper, Julia, Heesmans, Hanneke, Jamin, Jean-Yves, Jovanovic, Nebo, Ludi, Eva, Mailhol, Jean-Claude, Marlet, Serge, Mason, Nathaniel, Roble, Maria, Rollin, Dominique, van Beek, Christy, van'T Klooster, Kees   +33 more
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Impact of enriched environment on murine T cell differentiation and gene expression profile

Frontiers in Immunology, 2016
T cells are known to be plastic and to change their phenotype according to the cellular and biochemical milieu they are embedded in. In this study we transposed this concept at a macroscopic level assessing whether changes in the environmental housing ...
Lorenza Rattazzi, Giuseppa Piras, Samuel Brod, Koval Smith, Masahiro Ono, Fulvio D'Acquisto   +5 more
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Interaction of genotype and environment: Effect of strain and housing condition on cognitive behaviour in rodent models of schizophrenia

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2013
Schizophrenia is associated with many genetic and environmental risk factors and there is growing evidence that the interactions between genetic and environmental ‘hits’ are critical for disease onset.
Karly M. Turner, Thomas H. J. Burne, Thomas H. J. Burne   +2 more
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Equipping Farrowing Pens with Straw Improves Maternal Behavior and Physiology of Min-Pig Hybrid Sows

Animals, 2020
This study investigated the effects of two factors, enriched environment (EE) and different crossbreeds, on the maternal behavior and physiology of Min-pig hybrid sows.
Chao Wang, Qian Han, Runze Liu, Wenbo Ji, Yanju Bi, Pengfei Wen, Ran Yi, Peng Zhao, Jun Bao, Honggui Liu   +9 more
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