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Magpie in Lithuanian and Slavic Ethnic Culture

Slavistica Vilnensis, 2021
The article, based on a variety of ethnolinguistic material, especially folklore texts, aims to reveal the main similarities and differences in the interpretation of the image of the magpie in the ethnic culture of Lithuanians and Slavs. This bird in two
Birutė Jasiūnaitė
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New Data on Breeding Strategies and Reproductive Success of the Globally Threatened Turtle Dove Co-Occurring with the “Competitive” Collared Dove and the “Predatory” Maghreb Magpie in Olive Orchards

International Journal of Zoology, 2022
Interactions between co-occurring species, including competition and predation, comprise critical processes regulating local community structure, habitat use, and diversity.
Wafae Squalli, Ismail Mansouri, Driss Ousaaid, Mohammed Hmidani, Hamid Achiban, Fatima Fadil, Mohamed Dakki   +6 more
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Facing a Clever Predator Demands Clever Responses - Red-Backed Shrikes (Lanius collurio) vs. Eurasian Magpies (Pica pica). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Red-backed shrikes (Lanius collurio) behave quite differently towards two common nest predators. While the European jay (Garrulus glandarius) is commonly attacked, in the presence of the Eurasian magpie (Pica pica), shrikes stay fully passive.
Michaela Syrová, Michal Němec, Petr Veselý, Eva Landová, Roman Fuchs   +4 more
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Magpie: towards a semantic web browser [PDF]

, 2003
Web browsing involves two tasks: finding the right web page and then making sense of its content. So far, research has focused on supporting the task of finding web resources through ‘standard’ information retrieval mechanisms, or semantics-enhanced ...
A. Riva, E. Motta, H. Lieberman, I.A. Ovsiannikov, J. Domingue, J. Heflin, L. Tauscher, M. Vargas-Vera, N. Guarino, S. Middleton, T. Berners-Lee, T.R. Gruber   +11 more
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The impact of a social norms approach on reducing levels of misperceptions around smokefree hospital entrances amongst patients, staff, and visitors of a NHS hospital: a repeated cross-sectional survey study

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Smoking is a cause of avoidable morbidity and mortality. In the United Kingdom (UK) the national smoking ban inside hospital buildings is widely adhered to.
Scott Crosby, Diane Bell, Gerard Savva, Becky Edlin, Bridgette M. Bewick   +4 more
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Opening up Magpie via semantic services [PDF]

, 2004
Magpie is a suite of tools supporting a ‘zero-cost’ approach to semantic web browsing: it avoids the need for manual annotation by automatically associating an ontology-based semantic layer to web resources.
Domingue, John, Dzbor, Martin, Motta, Enrico   +2 more
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Report of a magpie preying on a post‐fledgling Daurian redstart

Ecology and Evolution, 2023
A magpie (Pica pica) preying on a fledgling of Daurian redstart (Phoenicurus auroreus) was incidentally recorded with a video shot by mobile phone on 26 May 2021, providing direct evidence for magpie predation.
Guofen Zhu, Meinuo Zheng, Shanshan Lyu, Laikun Ma   +3 more
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Mortality associated with avian reovirus infection in a free-living magpie (Pica pica) in Great Britain [PDF]

, 2015
Avian reoviruses (ARVs) cause a range of disease presentations in domestic, captive and free-living bird species. ARVs have been reported as a cause of significant disease and mortality in free-living corvid species in North America and continental ...
Cunningham, AA, Dastjerdi, A, Everest, D, Hicks, D, Horton, DL, Irvine, RM, Lawson, B, Núñez, A, Pocknell, A, Shah, S   +9 more
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Multiparasitism and repeated parasitism by the great spotted cuckoo Clamator glandarius on its main host, the magpie Pica pica: effects on reproductive success, nest desertion and nest predation

Journal of Avian Biology, 2023
Brood parasites are expected to lay only one egg per parasitized nest, as the existence of several parasitic nestlings in a brood increases competition and can lead the starvation of some of them.
Manuel Soler, Tomás Pérez‐Contreras, Francisco Ruiz‐Raya   +2 more
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Antibody-guided design and identification of CD25-binding small antibody mimetics using mammalian cell surface display

Scientific Reports, 2021
Small antibody mimetics that contain high-affinity target-binding peptides can be lower cost alternatives to monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). We have recently developed a method to create small antibody mimetics called FLuctuation-regulated Affinity ...
Kyra See, Tetsuya Kadonosono, Kotaro Miyamoto, Takuya Tsubaki, Yumi Ota, Marina Katsumi, Sumoe Ryo, Kazuki Aida, Misa Minegishi, Tatsuhiro Isozaki, Takahiro Kuchimaru, Shinae Kizaka-Kondoh   +11 more
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