The (in)visible barriers to free software: Inequalities in online communities in Spain
Studies in Communication Sciences, 2021 Free culture communities support self-learning, peer production, and the distribution of knowledge generated without any restrictions. However, free culture communities are not isolated from the social inequalities of the outside world. Understanding (in)
Dafne Calvo
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A novel and enigmatic two-holed shell aperture in a new species of suspension-feeding worm-snail (Vermetidae) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Shell aperture modifications are well known in terrestrial and aquatic gastropods, with apertural lip thickening and tooth development common in species with terminal (determinate) shell growth.
Rüdiger Bieler +3 more
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Hydrological and lock operation conditions associated with paddlefish and bigheaded carp dam passage on a large and small scale in the Upper Mississippi River (Pools 14–18) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Movement and dispersal of migratory fish species is an important life-history characteristics that can be impeded by navigation dams. Although habitat fragmentation may be detrimental to native fish species, it might act as an effective and economical ...
Dominique D. Turney +5 more
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Assessment of North American arthropod collections: prospects and challenges for addressing biodiversity research [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Over 300 million arthropod specimens are housed in North American natural history collections. These collections represent a “vast hidden treasure trove” of biodiversity −95% of the specimen label data have yet to be transcribed for research, and less ...
Neil S. Cobb +5 more
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A multi-method approach for assessing the distribution of a rare, burrowing North American crayfish species [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Primary burrowing crayfishes face high extinction risk, but are challenging to study, manage, and conserve due to their difficult-to-sample habitat (i.e., terrestrial burrows) and low population densities.
Kathleen B. Quebedeaux +3 more
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Religions, 2023 Between 1937 and 1945, numerous American journalists became gravely concerned about a rapidly growing Mexican Catholic right-wing movement, the Unión Nacional Sinarquista (UNS).
Julia G. Young
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Religions, 2022 In 1917, in the context of extreme anxiety of a rural Catholic population during a period of war, revolutionary upheaval, and anticlerical politics, the apparition of St Mary to three children near the Portuguese village of Fátima stirred up emotions ...
Arpad Von Klimo
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Genomic and transcriptomic resources for assassin flies including the complete genome sequence of Proctacanthus coquilletti (Insecta: Diptera: Asilidae) and 16 representative transcriptomes [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 A high-quality draft genome for Proctacanthus coquilletti (Insecta: Diptera: Asilidae) is presented along with transcriptomes for 16 Diptera species from five families: Asilidae, Apioceridae, Bombyliidae, Mydidae, and Tabanidae. Genome sequencing reveals
Rebecca B. Dikow +3 more
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An alternative technique for organelle genome recovery in diatoms using culture-independent, minimal-cell whole genome amplification [PDF]
PeerJBackground This study presents an alternative method in diatom genomics using two raphid diatoms—Campylodiscus clypeus and Plagiotropis lepidoptera—whose organellar genome characteristics have remained unexplored due to cultivation constraints.
Aimee Caye G. Chang +8 more
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The history of climate and society: a review of the influence of climate change on the human past
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently synthesized as the History of Climate and Society (HCS), is today undertaken ...
Dagomar Degroot +6 more
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