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Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-NapocaThe study of leaf functional traits and leaf ecological stoichiometry is of great significance for understanding plant adaptation strategies and nutrient uptake and utilization.
Jingzhong SHI +8 more
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Parents Just Don't Understand: Parent-Offspring Conflict over Mate Choice
Evolutionary Psychology, 2010 Previous research reveals that children and parents are not in complete agreement over which traits are most important for the mate of the child. Children tend to prefer traits that suggest genetic quality, whereas parents prefer characteristics that ...
Shelli L. Dubbs, Abraham P. Buunk
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, 2015 Natural selection has favored the evolution of behaviors that benefit not only one's genes, but also their copies in genetically related individuals. These behaviors include optimal outbreeding (choosing a mate that is neither too closely related, nor ...
Boklage CE +9 more
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Ecology and EvolutionFunctional traits reflect plants' adaptability to their environment, and environmental gradients influence their distribution. But few studies have investigated the link between these traits and species substitution patterns or the relevant ecological ...
Jun Yang +5 more
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Better Open Than Intellectual: The Benefits of Investment Personality Traits for Learning [PDF]
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2017 The investment theory of adult intelligence posits that individual differences in knowledge attainment result from people’s differences in cognitive ability and their propensity to apply and invest that ability, which is referred to as investment personality traits.
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Influence of adjacent insured risks upon the management of insurance companies [PDF]
Besides technical and investment risks, other risks can be identified, with own traits and implications that cannot be ignored. We speak about the risk of participation, the risk regarding guarantees in favor of tertiary, risk regarding loss because of ...
Florin Ion COANA +2 more
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Investment in defense and cost of predator-induced defense along a resource gradient [PDF]
, 2018 An organism's investment in different traits to reduce predation is determined by the fitness benefit of the defense relative to the fitness costs associated with the allocation of time and resources to the defense.
Steiner, Ulrich
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Trade-offs between personal immunity and reproduction in the burying beetle, N. vespilloides [PDF]
, 2014 We know that parental investment and immune investment are costly processes, but it is unclear which trait will be prioritised when both may be required.
Cotter, Sheena C. +3 more
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Structural Change, Growth and Bazaar Effects in the Single EU Market [PDF]
This paper analyzes the link between structural change, growth and bazaar effects in the context of open economies. At first we consider the theoretical basis of structural change and discuss the interdependencies between trade, foreign direct investment
Dora Borbély, Paul J.J. Welfens
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Measuring Risk Attitudes Controlling for Personality Traits [PDF]
This study measures risk attitudes using two paid experiments: the Holt and Laury (2002) procedure and a variation of the game show Deal or No Deal.
Cary Deck +3 more
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