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Adaptive strategies in plant life forms: assessing the variations in leaf ecological stoichiometry and functional traits

open access: yesNotulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca
The 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

open access: yesEvolutionary 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
doaj   +1 more source

Human kin detection [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Variation in plant functional traits explains the substitution distribution and allocation strategy of Stipa species across natural grasslands of Ningxia, Northern China

open access: yesEcology and Evolution
Functional 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
doaj   +1 more source

Better Open Than Intellectual: The Benefits of Investment Personality Traits for Learning [PDF]

open access: yesPersonality 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.
openaire   +2 more sources

Influence of adjacent insured risks upon the management of insurance companies [PDF]

open access: yes
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]

open access: yes, 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]

open access: yes, 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]

open access: yes
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]

open access: yes
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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