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Diversity, 2020 Although dispersal is critical to plant life history, the relationships between seed traits and dispersal success in animal-dispersed plants remain unclear due to complex interactions among the effects of seed traits, habitat structure, and disperser ...
Nathanael I. Lichti +2 more
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Nursing Open, Volume 10, Issue 2, Page 1029-1047, February 2023., 2023 Abstract Aims The first aim was to learn what books and other media the study participants would recommend for inspiring people to let go of anger towards themselves or others and have a kinder intention towards themselves or others. The second aim was to learn which media had these effects on participants, and how.
Ann Gentry Recine +6 more
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The Interplay among Acorn Abundance and Rodent Behavior Drives the Spatial Pattern of Seedling Recruitment in Mature Mediterranean Oak Forests. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The patterns of seedling recruitment in animal-dispersed plants result from the interactions among environmental and behavioral variables. However, we know little on the contribution and combined effect of both kinds of variables.
Pau Sunyer +4 more
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Attention as a multi‐level system of weights and balances
WIREs Cognitive Science, Volume 14, Issue 1, January/February 2023., 2023 Attention is analogous to a multi‐level system of weights and balances that help us make sense of the chaos of the external world and our internal thoughts. Abstract This opinion piece is part of a collection on the topic: “What is attention?” Despite the word's place in the common vernacular, a satisfying definition for “attention” remains elusive ...
William Narhi‐Martinez +2 more
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The Political Quarterly, Volume 93, Issue 4, Page 576-584, October/December 2022., 2022 Abstract The Social Mobility Commission's most recent annual report is entitled State of the Nation 2022: A Fresh Approach to Social Mobility. We examine what in the report is new, whether explicitly or implicitly, and how far the newness serves to enhance our understanding of social mobility in Britain today and is of relevance to problems and policy ...
Erzsébet Bukodi, John H. Goldthorpe
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Talent Hoarding in Organizations [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Most organizations rely on managers to identify talented workers. However, managers who are evaluated on team performance have an incentive to hoard workers. This study provides the first empirical evidence of talent hoarding using personnel records and survey evidence from a large manufacturing firm.
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Hoarding without hoarders: unpacking the emergence of opportunity hoarding within schools [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Sociologists of education increasingly highlight the role of opportunity hoarding in the formation of Black-White educational inequalities. Informed by this literature, this article unpacks the necessary and sufficient conditions under which the hoarding of educational resources emerges within schools.
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Homeostasis in anorexia nervosa
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2014 Brainstem and hypothalamic orexigenic/anorexigenic networks are thought to maintain body weight homeostasis in response to hormonal and metabolic feedback from peripheral sites.
Per eSodersten +3 more
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Animal Kingdom: A Large and Diverse Dataset for Animal Behavior Understanding [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Understanding animals' behaviors is significant for a wide range of applications. However, existing animal behavior datasets have limitations in multiple aspects, including limited numbers of animal classes, data samples and provided tasks, and also limited variations in environmental conditions and viewpoints. To address these limitations, we create a
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Observations of the SW Sextantis star DW Ursae Majoris with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer [PDF]
Astron.J.126:2473,2003, 2003 We present an analysis of the first far-ultraviolet observations of the SW Sextantis-type cataclysmic variable DW Ursae Majoris, obtained in November 2001 with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer. The time-averaged spectrum of DW UMa shows a rich assortment of emission lines (plus some contamination from interstellar absorption lines including ...
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