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Exploring the utility of Brachypodium distachyon as a model pathosystem for the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici [PDF]

, 2015
peer-reviewedBackground Zymoseptoria tritici, the causative organism of Septoria tritici blotch disease is a prevalent biotic stressor of wheat production, exerting substantial economic constraints on farmers, requiring ...
Doohan, Fiona, Mullins, Ewen, O'Driscoll, Aoife   +2 more
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Beyond Old Boys' Clubs: Financial Analysts' Utilization of Professional Connections

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Women often lack the opportunity to join exclusive social clubs, limiting the benefits they derive from their social networks. We investigate whether, when given the opportunity to interact with the right people in a professional setting, women gain greater advantages from these connections for career performance and advancement compared to ...
MENGQIAO DU, RACHEL XI ZHANG
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'Blueprint' for the UP Modelling System for Large Scale Hydrology [PDF]

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 1997
There are at least two needs to be met by the current research efforts on large scale hydrological modelling. The first is for practical conceptual land-surface hydrology schemes for use with existing operational climate and weather forecasting models ...
J. Ewen
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Neuroimaging of the joint Simon effect with believed biological and non-biological co-actors

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015
Performing a task alone or together with another agent can produce different outcomes. The current study used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the neural underpinnings when participants performed a Go/Nogo task ...
Tanya eWen, Tanya eWen, Shulan eHsieh, Shulan eHsieh, Shulan eHsieh   +4 more
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Consumption caught in the cash nexus. [PDF]

, 2007
During the last thirty years, ‘consumption’ has become a major topic in the study of contemporary culture within anthropology, psychology and sociology. For many authors it has become central to understanding the nature of material culture in the modern ...
Appadurai, A., Barthes, R., Baudrillard, J., Baudrillard, J., Baudrillard, J., Baudrillard, J., Baudrillard, J., Baudrillard, J., Bocock, R., Boorstein, D., Campbell, C., Carlyle, T., Corrigan, P., Corrigan, P., Csikszentmihalyi, M., Dant, T., de Certeau, M., Dittmar, H., Douglas, M., du Gay, P., Engels, F., Ewen, S., Falk, P., Featherstone, M., Gabriel, Y., Galbraith, J. K., Galbraith, J. K., Goldthorpe, J. H., Goldthorpe, J. H., Haug, W.F., Heath, C.C., Jhally, S., Kopytoff, I., Leiss, W., Lunt, P., Lury, C., Marcuse, H., Marx, K., McCarthy, E.D., McCracken, G., McKenzie, R., Mead, G.H., Miles, S., Miller, D., Miller, D., Miller, D., Miller, D., Miller, D., Packard, V., Riesman, D., Riggins, S.H., Riggins, S.H., Runciman, W.G., Sahlins, M., Saunders, P., Shields, R., Simmel, G., Slater, D., Tim Dant, Westergaard, J.H., Westergaard, J.H.   +60 more
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Volumetric Comparison of Overall Brain and Neuropil Size Between Social and Non‐social Spiders: Exploring the Social Brain Hypothesis

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Brain size may be influenced by the cognitive demands of sociality (social brain hypothesis). We used microCT to compare CNS and brain volumes in social versus solitary huntsman and crab spiders. Social huntsman spiders had larger arcuate and mushroom bodies, while social crab spiders had larger visual neuropils.
Vanessa Penna‐Gonçalves, Donald James Mclean, Nikolas J. Willmott, Michael B. J. Kelly, Jay R. Black, Elizabeth C. Lowe, Marie E. Herberstein   +6 more
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Network-based analysis reveals functional connectivity related to internet addiction tendency

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2016
IntroductionPreoccupation and compulsive use of the internet can have negative psychological effects, such that it is increasingly being recognized as a mental disorder.
Tanya eWen, Tanya eWen, Shulan eHsieh, Shulan eHsieh, Shulan eHsieh   +4 more
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Survival Remains High in Griffon Vultures 40 Years After Reintroduction

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
The reintroduction of the Griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) in French Grands Causses in 1981 is largely regarded as a significant translocation success. 40 years of quality data from intensive monitoring allows us to investigate the survival rates in this long‐lived population on the long term, but also to reflect on the crucial role of adaptive management
Charlotte Lorand, Jean‐Baptiste Mihoub, Olivier Duriez, Léa Giraud, Philippe Lécuyer, Bruno Descaves, Robert Straughan, François Sarrazin   +7 more
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Dichrostachys cinerea (L.) Wight et Arn (Mimosaceae) hydro-alcoholic extract action on the contractility of tracheal smooth muscle isolated from guinea-pig

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2011
Background Dichrostachys cinerea (L.) Wight et Arn. (Mimosaceae) is largely used in ethno-medically across Africa, and mainly employed for the treatment of asthma in Ivory Coast and Gabon.
Datté Jacques Y, Konaté Kiessoun, Kpahé Fidele, Souza Alain, Aworet-Samseny Raissa RR   +4 more
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Structural Equity: Big-Picture Thinking & Partnerships That Improve Community College Student Outcomes [PDF]

, 2016
While access to higher education has grown considerably for low-income students and students of color over the past decades, the rates at which those students succeed in completing or transferring to a four-year university remain low and have been slow ...
Joshua Wyner, Keith Witham, Mandy Zatynski   +2 more
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