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Grass functional traits reflect the long history of fire and grazers in the savannas of Texas
Abstract Premise Understanding relationships among grass traits, fire, and herbivores may help improve conservation strategies for savannas that are threatened by novel disturbance regimes. Emerging theory, developed in Africa, emphasizes that functional traits of savanna grasses reflect the distinct ways that fire and grazers consume biomass ...
Ashish N. Nerlekar +2 more
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De la « rurbanisation » du héros américain : The Rise of Silas Lapham
The bipolar representation of the city (the celestial city vs. Babylon the great) is a distinguishing feature of the American psyche. A similar ambivalence can be traced in the ideological conflict between two types of discourse, one pastoral and one ...
Guillaume TANGUY
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Content moderation and the digital transformations of gatekeeping
Abstract This essay provides an overview of the current state of content moderation on social media platforms. The question the essay addresses is why there are a number of unresolved issues in tackling dysfunctional content. The argument is that there are two intersecting new phenomena which make effective content moderation difficult: one is that ...
Ralph Schroeder
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M101: The Pinwheel Galaxy [PDF]
This Hubble Space Telescope image of M101 showcases a spiral galaxy's well-known features. The text describes the features that are common to all spiral galaxies.
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A Guide to Designing Experiments to Test Statistical Graphics
Graphical experiments require considerable forethought and planning, and can still go awry when participants notice features that the experimenters do not. ABSTRACT In this paper, we discuss considerations and methods for experimentally testing visualizations.
Emily Robinson +2 more
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The Geologic Time Scale: The Development of Life through time [PDF]
This text assists in understanding time relationships and how life on Earth has changed over time. The dates shown were compiled from several available sources.
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Shark Tooth Forensics: A Participatory Science Initiative to Unravel Ancient Shark Ecology
Abstract Studying the ecology of ancient organisms requires a tremendous amount of data, as in the case of prehistoric sharks where our knowledge is based mostly on teeth. Shark Tooth Forensics is a participatory science project tackling the problem of deciphering the ecology of ancient sharks with assistance from public school students. Traditionally,
Terry A. Gates +7 more
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Mr. Mastodon Farm: analysing a mastodon ActivityPub outbox.json file
I migrated my personal Mastodon account from mastodon.social to biologists.social recently. If you’d like to do the same, I found this guide very useful. Note that, once you move, all your previous posts are left behind on the old instance. Before I migrated, I downloaded all of my data from the old instance.
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The analyses of some mastodon and mammoth tusks [PDF]
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1933 ...
Moling, William Edward.
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First true mastodon from the Late Miocene of Iran
A mammutid is described here for the first time from the Late Miocene (MN12 equivalent) deposits of Abkhareh village, Varzeghan region, in the North-Western part of Iran. It is identified as “Mammut” cf.
Sadaf Yaghoubi +3 more
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