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Habitat Features, Coyotes, and Humans Drive Diel Activity Variation Among Sympatric Mammals
Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.We found that multiple mammal species show considerable variation in diel activity in response to several factors, with biotic variables (habitat features and the presence of coyotes Canis latrans) having the strongest overall effects. Our results have important implications for trophic dynamics. Future studies will need to account for these underlying
Nathan J. Proudman, Maximilian L. Allen
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What Are We Doing to the Children?: An Essay on Juvenile (In)justice [PDF]
, 2003 The nonlinear conjugate gradients method is a very powerful program in the search for Bayes error optimal linear subspaces for classification problems.
Tigar, Michael E.
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between 2018 and 2021, the Identification and Documentation of Immovable Heritage Assets (IDIHA) Project recorded over 19,000 rock art panels in the AlUla (al‐‘Ulā) region of north‐western Saudi Arabia. This study presents a chronological assessment of the corpus, drawing on superimpositions, datable motifs, inscriptions, and varnish formation,
Maria Guagnin +3 more
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Recent Surge in Homicides Involving Young Black Males and Guns: Time To Reinvest in Prevention and Crime Control [PDF]
, 2008 This review of recent U.S. homicide trends by race of offenders and victims, as well as weapons used, shows a surge in homicides that involve young Black males and ...
James A. Fox, Marc L. Swatt
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Blood Alcohol Concentration in Finnish Suicide Deaths and Associated Risk Factors, 2016–2024
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aims There is limited research examining the relationship between blood alcohol concentration (BAC) and other risk factors among suicide deaths in Finland. Our study aimed to investigate the relationship of an elevated (more than zero) blood alcohol concentration with medical history, including sociodemographic characteristics and disease ...
Tristan Pokornyi +2 more
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A Farewell to Arms… Manufacturing: Learning From a Landmine Producer Who Became a Deminer
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Certain industries—labeled “dirty,” “sinful,” “stigmatized,” or “controversial”—are under public scrutiny because of the ethical, social, and environmental concerns that they raise. Previous research has typically focused on the industry or organizational level of analysis, examining how companies in controversial industries can enhance their ...
Marco Guerci, Luca Carollo
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Safety Assessment in Child Protection—A Survey Study With Dutch Child Protection Workers
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Safety assessment is a crucial part of child protective services to estimate acute and chronic danger in families that are at risk for child abuse in order to determine whether and which steps need to be taken to protect the child's safety. This study aimed to gain insight into the usefulness of the safety assessment procedure at Dutch child ...
B. Erens, H. Gerger, E. Simon
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Evaluating synthetic substitutes to reduce illegal harvesting and support species recovery
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Providing synthetic substitutes is a widely promoted strategy to shift consumer demand away from wildlife products derived from threatened species. Yet, there is little evidence on whether product substitution prevents illegal or unsustainable harvesting and contributes to the recovery of threatened populations.
Aditya Shekhar Malgaonkar +17 more
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Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
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The Proficiency of Experts [PDF]
, 2018 Expert evidence plays a crucial role in civil and criminal litigation. Changes in the rules concerning expert admissibility, following the Supreme Court\u27s Daubert ruling, strengthened judicial review of the reliability and the validity of an expert ...
Garrett, Brandon L., Mitchell, Gregory
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