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Successful bald eagle nesting and fledging on lower Yakima River, Washington [PDF]
, 2007 Successful bald eagle nesting and fledging on lower Yakima River ...
Livingston, M., Hames, T.
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent shifts in European security have placed resilience at the center of deterrence and defense strategies. While resilience has traditionally been understood as the ability to withstand disruption and sustain military operations, there have been calls for a whole‐of‐society approach that strengthens societies against hybrid threats and ...
Jan Daniel, Míla O'Sullivan
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines why Gulf foreign aid has remained predominantly bilateral and fragmented since its emergence in the 1960s, despite the establishment of regional institutions, recurring regional crises and repeated calls for greater coordination.
Khalid Almezaini
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Journal of Zoological and Botanical GardensUntil recently, the sihek (Guam kingfisher, Todiramphus cinnamominus) has persisted entirely in managed care since a breeding program was established in the 1980s.
Margaret Ramont +4 more
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Foundational Fracture: Failing to Reform the World Trade Organization in an Age of Geopolitics
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The World Trade Organization (WTO) is at the crossroads, with a principal challenge raised to the organization by the United States in 2025 and a series of related, largely unsuccessful reform attempts over the last several years. To shed new light on why recent WTO reform attempts have been proving so difficult, we leverage evidence from ...
Michal Parizek, Clara Weinhardt
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Telomere length of chicks at hatching and fledging.
, 2016 The red circles and boxes represent single chicks. The green triangles and boxes and blue squares and boxes represent older and younger siblings, respectively.
Yuichi Mizutani (3370517) +2 more
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Survival of Eurasian Curlew Chicks Varies With Vegetation Structure in a Diverse Lowland Landscape
Animal Conservation, EarlyView.Intensive monitoring of 235 Eurasian curlew chicks in Breckland, eastern England, revealed high mortality, with over 72% dying within two weeks of hatching. Chick survival was higher in shorter vegetation during their first week of life, but higher in taller vegetation during their second week.
Harry Ewing +4 more
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Predators control post-fledging mortality in tawny owls, Strix aluco
, 2005 Despite its recognition as an important source of variation in recruitment probability, the ecological processes leading to mortality between fledging and independence are poorly studied.
Sunde, Peter +3 more
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Mandatory Annuitization in the SME Pension Fund in Korea: Welfare and Retirement Adequacy
Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The collective retirement pension fund for workers in small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) has recently been introduced in Korea (the “Blue Seed” plan), yet retirement wealth is typically withdrawn as a lump sum, leaving retirees exposed to longevity risk.
Jun‐Hee An, Do Young Cheong
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NAADF: Globally Illuminated Voxel Worlds Accelerated with Nested Axis‐Aligned Distance Fields
Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.Abstract Achieving realistic rendering of 3D scenes in real time using path tracing is challenging due to the high sample count required, with ray tracing as the bottleneck. Focusing on voxels as a geometry representation offers significant opportunities for optimizations, especially for tracing the rays, but also for computing the samples.
A. Ulschmid +4 more
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