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Networks in Nigeria: A pilot study on network characteristics and their relation with life satisfaction in a Nigerian sample [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Social relationships are a central determinant of life satisfaction. The collectivity of individual social relationships form a social network. This study examines such networks in a Nigerian sample (N = 108).
Spörrle, Matthias   +2 more
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Leaf Nitrogen and Phosphorus Stoichiometry and Its Response to Geographical and Climatic Factors in a Tropical Region: Evidence from Hainan Island

open access: yesAgronomy, 2023
Leaf stoichiometry effectively indicates the response and adaptation of plants to environmental changes. Although numerous studies on leaf stoichiometry patterns have focused on the mid-latitudes and specific species of plants, these patterns and the ...
Jingjing Wang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hachimoji DNA and RNA: A genetic system with eight building blocks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Reported here are DNA and RNA-like systems built from eight (hachi-) nucleotide letters (-moji) that form four orthogonal pairs. This synthetic genetic biopolymer meets the structural requirements needed to support Darwinism, including a polyelectrolyte ...
Bates, Alison M.   +15 more
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Turnover of Plant Species on an Ecological Gradient in Karst Dolines Is Reflected in Plant Traits: Chorotypes, Life Forms, Plant Architecture and Strategies

open access: yesDiversity, 2022
We analyzed plants and their traits in dolines, which are characteristic enclosed terrain depressions on carbonate (karst) plateaus. These landforms range from a few meters to over 100 m in diameter, their depth generally varying from a few meters to a ...
Aljaž Jakob   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A day’s time: the one-day novel and the temporality of the everyday [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This essay presents an investigation of the one-day-ness of the one-day novel—to ask what the effects of this temporal frame, in literary form, might be.
Randall, Bryony
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Effects of abdominal and vaginal hysterectomy on anorectal functions along with quality of life of the patient [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Objectives and background:Hysterectomy is the most commonly performed major gynecological operation for both benign and malign gynecologic conditions.
Birsen, Onur   +3 more
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Estudo florístico do componente herbáceo e relação com solos em áreas de caatinga do embasamento cristalino e bacia sedimentar, Petrolândia, PE, Brasil Herbaceous floristic study and relationship with soil of crystalline shield and sedimentary basin caatinga areas at Petrolândia, Pernambuco State, Brazil

open access: yesActa Botânica Brasílica, 2009
Realizou-se um levantamento florístico em áreas de caatinga do embasamento cristalino e de bacia sedimentar, em Petrolândia, Pernambuco, objetivando-se identificar diferenças na composição, hábito e forma de vida das herbáceas entre as duas áreas.
Kleber Andrade da Silva   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beetles of the family Heteroceridae (Insecta: Coleoptera) in extreme environments

open access: yesТрансформация экосистем, 2020
Heterocerid beetles (Heteroceridae) are morphologically and ecologically uniform (all members of the family are burrowing stratobionts). Nevertheless, some groups are obviously in an active and dynamic stage of evolution, and some species have a high ...
Alexey S. Sazhnev
doaj   +1 more source

Genetic correlations among protein yield, productive life, and type traits from the United States and diseases other than mastitis from Denmark and Sweden [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Sire genetic evaluations for protein yield, productive life, and selected type traits from the US were correlated with sire evaluations for disease from Denmark and Sweden and were then adjusted to approximate genetic correlations.
Banos, G, Rogers, GW, Sander-Nielsen, U
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L’œuvre d’art « augmentée » et ses formes de vie

open access: yesSignata, 2023
In this article, we examine the "augmented" work of art in the light of the filiations and genealogies of forms that underlie its forms of life. First, we study the notion of form, essentially from Gal’s Deep Formalism, Cassirer’s theory of symbolic ...
Marion Colas-Blaise
doaj   +1 more source

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