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Scaling law links plant growth variation to grain yield in wheat stands

open access: yesNew Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary Growth rate, a fundamental trait associated with plant resource use, scales with plant mass, following consistent allometric power laws shaped by biophysical constraints and natural selection captured in metabolic scaling theory (MST). Although well‐established in wild plants, MST has been overlooked in crop improvement.
Guy Golan   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wartime Leadership as a Bridge Over Troubled Waters: A Representative Bureaucracy Perspective on Ethnically Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Schools

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The representative bureaucracy literature asserts that minority personnel in public organizations can promote their social group either through their own behavior or by influencing other staff members or focal citizens. However, these phenomena have not been examined in wartime settings in ethnically homogeneous and heterogeneous organizations.
Maayan Davidovitz, Chen Schechter
wiley   +1 more source

Locke(d) in a Dilemma: The Problem of Territorial Authority

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Lockean social contract theory, the state exercises its authority over territory through property rights. The state has territorial authority over the property it and its citizens claim. This authority is legitimate when the state has the consent of the governed and effectively governs. In this paper, I argue that there is an irreconcilable
Samantha L. Fritz
wiley   +1 more source

From Computational Indeterminacy to the Causal Relevance of Mental Content

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A central claim in contemporary cognitive science is that the neural mechanisms that bring about cognitive capacities and behavior are computations. It is also widely assumed that computations are not sensitive to the content, or the semantic properties of representations.
Jens Harbecke, Oron Shagrir
wiley   +1 more source

What personality traits do citizens want politicians to have? Observational and experimental evidence of citizens' preferences in three countries

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Politicians' personality is believed to play a central role in their electoral success. It is unclear, however, how important different traits are to voters and how the impact of personality compares to that of other well‐studied individual characteristics of politicians, such as gender, age, and political experience.
Thomas Bergeron   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of ultrasound operator training on clinical pregnancy rates during embryo transfer: a retrospective cohort study. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Reprod Health
Hizkiyahu R   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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