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Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction Habitat restoration is applied to promote ecological recovery in degraded freshwater systems. However, it remains unclear whether stream restoration measures enhance Water Framework Directive (WFD) ecological status and biodiversity.
Lisbeth Dalsgaard Romme Henriksen +3 more
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Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction Floodplain wetlands are vitally important, highly productive, and biodiverse ecosystems. Species dependent on them are facing a range of threats including water extraction, habitat degradation, invasive species, and shifting climates.
Sally Maxwell +4 more
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The literature on lobbying coalitions has explored the choice of interest organizations to cooperate with others in a series of correlational studies. Yet, considerable diversity in cooperation activities, as well as path dependencies between organizations complicate these analyses.
Wiebke Marie Junk, Ellis Aizenberg
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Zenga’s new index of economic inequality, its estimation, and an analysis of incomes in Italy
For at least a century academics and governmental researchers have been developing measures that would aid them in understanding income distributions, their differences with respect to geographic regions, and changes over time periods. It is a challenging
Pasquazzi, Leo +2 more
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article brings together theories of history and filmic realism to analyze the representation of the provinces in Nataliia Meshchaninova’s The Hope Factory (Kombinat “Nadezhda,” 2014) and Andrei Zviagintsev’s Leviathan (Leviafan, 2014). It argues that these two films share a typically realist attitude of respect toward the profilmic in ...
Daria Ezerova
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Does the total consumption model apply to cannabis use? [PDF]
AddictionAbstract Aims To test whether the total consumption model and its extension, the theory of collectivity, apply to adolescent cannabis use. We estimated: (1) whether the distribution of cannabis use frequency was stable over time; (2) whether changes in average cannabis use were mirrored across consumption quantiles; and (3) whether higher average use ...
Norström T, Leifman H.
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract As people age, there is a natural decline in cognitive functioning and brain structure. However, the relationship between brain function and cognition in older adults is neither straightforward nor uniform. Instead, it is complex, influenced by multiple factors, and can vary considerably from one person to another.
Monica Baciu, Elise Roger
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Socioeconomic Gauging of Brown and Levy Power Motions. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Eliazar I.
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GLCURVE: Stata module to derive generalised Lorenz curve ordinates
Given variable varname, call it x with c.d.f. F(x), glcurve either draws its Generalised Lorenz curve or generates two new variables containing the Generalised Lorenz ordinates for x, i.e. GL(p) at each p = F(x) (or both).
Philippe Van Kerm, Stephen P. Jenkins
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