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Discours, 2020 Several studies have observed that bilinguals tend to use and accept overspecified, redundant referring expressions in one of their two languages. This tendency has been mainly analysed as an effect of cross-linguistic influence (for instance, from a non-
Maria Andreou +2 more
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Individual Variations in Sickness Absence [PDF]
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1967 Records of personal sickness absence, including all spells of one day9s duration or more, have been kept at this refinery for more than 20 years. The distributions of sickness spells and also calendar days of absence have been analysed for single years and also for periods of up to 20 years9 continuous service for the 1,350 hourly paid male employees ...
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Production and Comprehension of Pantomimes Used to Depict Objects
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Pantomime, gesture in absence of speech, has no conventional meaning. Nevertheless, individuals seem to be able to produce pantomimes and derive meaning from pantomimes.
Karin van Nispen +3 more
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Individual Variation in Response to Drugs [PDF]
BMJ, 1937 One of the most familiar facts in medical practice is that no two persons respond in exactly the same manner to drugs. The use of biological methods for standardising drugs has necessitated the measurement of the extent and distribution of this individual variation in response to drugs, and in consequence a large literature has accumulated. Estimations
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Individual variation by self-organisation [PDF]
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2005 In this paper, we show that differences in dominance and spatial centrality of individuals in a group may arise through self-organisation. Our instrument is a model, called DomWorld, that represents two traits that are often found in animals, namely grouping and competing.
Hemelrijk, C. K., Wantia, J.
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Rethinking the nature of intraspecific variability and its consequences on species coexistence
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Intraspecific variability (IV) has been proposed to explain species coexistence in diverse communities. Assuming, sometimes implicitly, that conspecific individuals can perform differently in the same environment and that IV increases niche overlap ...
Camille Girard‐Tercieux +11 more
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The dimensionality of individual niche variation [PDF]
Ecology, 2018 AbstractThe inherently multidimensional nature of the niche has not yet been integrated into the investigation of individual niche specialization within populations. We propose a framework for modeling the between‐ and within‐individual components of the population niche as a set of variance‐covariance matrices, which can be visualized with ellipses or
Ingram, Travis +2 more
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A Multiscale Review of Behavioral Variation in Collective Foraging Behavior in Honey Bees
Insects, 2019 The emergence of collective behavior from local interactions is a widespread phenomenon in social groups. Previous models of collective behavior have largely overlooked the impact of variation among individuals within the group on collective dynamics ...
Natalie J. Lemanski +3 more
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Animals, 2020 Heat stress causes significant economic losses by reducing the productivity and welfare of cattle whilst requiring a significant investment in resource for amelioration.
Md Ashraful Islam +4 more
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Brain Sciences, 2022 Despite the fact that the urge to investigate bilingualism and neurodevelopmental disorders as continuous indices rather than categorical ones has been well-voiced among researchers with respect to research methodological approaches, in the recent ...
Maria Andreou, Vasileia Skrimpa
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