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Survival benefits in mimicry: a quantitative framework [PDF]
, 2008 Mimicry is a resemblance between species that benefits at least one of the species. It is a ubiquitous evolutionary phenomenon particularly common among prey species, in which case the advantage involves better protection from predation.
Alexey Mikaberidze +36 more
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The Bold and the Beautiful: How Aspects of Personality Affect Foreign Language Pronunciation [PDF]
, 2014 In the main study, a group of Polish learners of English completed a number of mimicry tasks in three languages: Italian, Dutch and Chinese, as well as a narration task in English.
Arnold +36 more
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Cell stress & chaperones (Print), 2020 Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 infection has been associated with Guillain-Barré syndrome. We investigated here the potential mechanism underlying the virus-induced damage of the peripheral nervous systems by searching the viral ...
G. Lucchese, A. Flöel
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Semiotic modeling of mimicry with reference to brood parasitism
Sign Systems Studies, 2010 Biological mimicry can be considered as having a double-layered structure: there is a layer of ecological relations between species and there is a layer of semiotic relations of the sign. The present article demonstrates the limitations of triadic models
Timo Maran
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Understanding the role of the 'self' in the social priming of mimicry. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 People have a tendency to unconsciously mimic other's actions. This mimicry has been regarded as a prosocial response which increases social affiliation.
Yin Wang, Antonia F de C Hamilton
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Cosmic Mimicry: Is LCDM a Braneworld in Disguise ? [PDF]
, 2005 For a broad range of parameter values, braneworld models display a remarkable property which we call cosmic mimicry. Cosmic mimicry is characterized by the fact that, at low redshifts, the Hubble parameter in the braneworld model is virtually ...
Alam U +27 more
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An In Vitro Model of Gastric Inflammation and Treatment with Cobalamin
International Journal of Inflammation, 2017 Pernicious anaemia (PA) is an autoimmune condition where antibodies target intrinsic factor and parietal cells, reducing the patient’s ability to absorb cobalamin promoting atrophic gastritis.
T. R. Elliott, A. L. Guildford
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Mimicry: Towards a semiotic understanding of nature
Sign Systems Studies, 2001 Mimicry has been an important topic for biology since the rise of the Darwinian theory of evolution. However. by its very narure mimicry is a sign process and the quest for understanding mimicry in biology has intrinsically always been a semiotic quest ...
Timo Maran
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The Modulation of Mimicry by Ethnic Group-Membership and Emotional Expressions. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Mimicry has been ascribed affiliative functions. In three experiments, we used a newly developed social-affective mimicry task (SAMT) to investigate mimicry´s modulation by emotional facial expressions (happy, angry) and ethnic group-membership (White in-
Birgit Rauchbauer +3 more
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