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Electoral Quotas: Should the UK learn from the rest of the world?

open access: yesCommonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2009
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown would surely love his political legacy to include a significant contribution to constitutional reform. Certainly he inherited, on succeeding Tony Blair in 2007, a substantial agenda of unfinished constitutional business ...
Chris Game
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Hand games, naughty games

open access: yesPan African Medical Journal, 2020
We report the case of a 13-year-old child who presented to the ophthalmic emergencies for left eye trauma because of a sore eyelid, while fighting with one of his classmates using pairs of scissors. The clinical examination found a wound on the upper left eyelid with loss of substance of the skin without involvement of the orbicularis muscle (A ...
Kawtar Belkhadir, Ouafaa Cherkaoui
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Cost-Effective Approach to Reducing Collisions with Elk by Fencing Between Existing Highway Structures

open access: yesHuman-Wildlife Interactions, 2017
Collisions with large ungulates cause serious human and animal injuries and significant property damage. Therefore, wildlife crossing structures are increasingly included in new road construction to reduce wildlife–vehicle collisions, while still ...
Jeffrey W. Gagnon   +5 more
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Modelling of primary aerosols in the chemical transport model MOCAGE: development and evaluation of aerosol physical parameterizations [PDF]

open access: yesGeoscientific Model Development, 2015
This paper deals with recent improvements to the global chemical transport model of Météo-France MOCAGE (Modèle de Chimie Atmosphérique à Grande Echelle) that consists of updates to different aerosol parameterizations.
B. Sič   +7 more
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Ordinal Games [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
We study strategic games where players' preferences are weak orders which need not admit utility representations. First of all, we extend Voorneveld's concept of best-response potential from cardinal to ordinal games and derive the analogue of his characterization result: An ordinal game is a best-response potential game if and only if it does not have
Durieu, J.   +3 more
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Assessing detection of New Zealand mudsnails at low densities in Arizona streams [PDF]

open access: yesAquatic Invasions
The New Zealand mudsnail (NZMS) is a small-bodied gastropod that has successfully invaded waters across multiple continents. This species has the ability to reach extremely high densities in streams and exclude other aquatic macroinvertebrates which ...
Crosby K. Hedden   +4 more
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Comparing the ensemble and extended Kalman filters for in situ soil moisture assimilation with contrasting conditions [PDF]

open access: yesHydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2015
Two data assimilation (DA) methods are compared for their ability to produce an accurate soil moisture analysis using the Météo-France land surface model: (i) SEKF, a simplified extended Kalman filter, which uses a climatological ...
D. Fairbairn   +4 more
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Inventory games [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Operational Research, 2004
zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Meca, A.   +3 more
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Effectiveness of habitat management for improving grey partridge populations: a BACI experimental assessment

open access: yesAnimal Biodiversity and Conservation, 2012
Eficacia de la gestión del hábitat para mejorar las poblaciones de perdiz pardilla: una evaluación experimental BACI Evaluamos el impacto de la división de los campos (franjas de 4 m de suelo desnudo dentro de campos de trigo) y de la alimentación ...
E. Bro, P. Mayot, F. Reitz
doaj   +3 more sources

Reduced relative fitness in hatchery‐origin Pink Salmon in two streams in Prince William Sound, Alaska

open access: yesEvolutionary Applications, 2022
Previous studies generally report that hatchery‐origin Pacific Salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) have lower relative reproductive success (RRS) than their natural‐origin counterparts. We estimated the RRS of Pink Salmon (O.
Kyle R. Shedd   +7 more
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