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Ethnic integration and the value of innovation

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Organizations have become increasingly ethnically diverse, and this diversity often brings together distinct technological competencies. Understanding how firms can leverage such diversity to produce valuable innovations therefore becomes essential.
Stefano Breschi, Luisa Gagliardi, Thomas Yoon   +2 more
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Structural Phylogenetic Signal Fails at Deep Time: A Bayesian Treebank Analysis of the Transeurasian Languages

Entropy
Quantitative phylogenetics in historical linguistics has relied almost entirely on lexical cognate data. This study asks a different question: how much genealogical signal can be recovered from structural features extracted from annotated corpora, and ...
Wenchao Li, Haitao Liu
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Guanxi and Wasta: 20 Years of Evolution and Future Directions for Informal Network Research

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article provides an examination of the evolution of networking in China and the Arab world over two decades and provides an update to, and new insights arising from, an article called Guanxi and Wasta; A Comparison, published in Thunderbird International Business Review in 2006.
Kate Hutchings, David Weir, Sa'ad Ali, Sven Horak   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soil and microbial responses to wild ungulate trampling depend more on ecosystem type than trampling severity

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Physical trampling is a ubiquitous activity of walking vertebrates, but is poorly understood as a mechanism impacting biogeochemical cycling in soil. Lack of detailed knowledge of soil abiotic–biotic interactions underlying trampling effects, and the primary sources of ...
G. Adam Meyer, Shawn J. Leroux, Kathryn E. Hargan, Niels van Miltenburg   +3 more
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Climate change and the spread of the Transeurasian languages

Quaternary Environments and Humans
The term “Transeurasian” refers to a proposed language family stretching across Europe and northern Asia, which includes five well-established branches: Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic. The complex range of interacting factors that drove
Martine Robbeets, Christian Leipe
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Ecohydrological characteristics of biocrusts explain divergent responses of biocrusts and grasses to rainfall reduction

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Drylands are mainly structured by both vascular plants and biological soil crusts (biocrusts), the latter often regarded as a self‐organizing component of these ecosystems.
Haoran Luo, Jiamin Shi, Qianhai Ye, Siqing Wang, Li Ma, Yali Ma, Linjie Qiao, Renyi Zhang, Yunyao Ma, Hao Wang, Xiaobo Yuan, Chao Song, Changming Zhao, Ning Chen   +13 more
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Integrating large mammalian herbivores into Dynamic Global Vegetation Models: Status and next steps

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Zoogeochemistry, the study of how animals influence elemental cycling within ecosystems, bridges the fields of zoology, ecology and biogeochemistry. Yet, most terrestrial ecosystem models, especially Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs), remain largely plant‐centric
Yue Cheng, Joanne Alice O'Keeffe, Andrew J. Abraham, Jesper Riis Christiansen, Frederik Nygaard Philipsen, Klaus Steenberg Larsen, Fabio Berzaghi, Carsten W. Mueller, Lars Vesterdal, Jeppe A. Kristensen, Elizabeth Le Roux   +10 more
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Zinc addition and mowing alter the timing and duration of reproductive phenology in dominant plants of a meadow steppe

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Plant phenology, while genetically determined, is highly responsive to environmental drivers such as soil nutrient availability and disturbance. As an essential micronutrient, zinc (Zn) plays a critical role in plant development by regulating key processes including RNA
Qiuhua Li, Lixin Yu, Xiaotian Fan, Jiaqiang Wang, Bin Wang, Ying Zhang, Yuxue Zhang, Ruzhen Wang, Osbert Jianxin Sun, Yong Jiang, Heyong Liu   +10 more
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Phenology drives asymmetric responses of ecosystem productivity stability to warming and cooling

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Ecosystem productivity stability is a key indicator of ecosystem functioning under climate change, but the role of cooling periods in increasingly variable climates remains poorly resolved.
Yao Wei, Yuzhang Li, Jiangqin Song, Mingli Ding, Shiping Wang, Xin Jing, Fandong Meng, Jinjiao Hu, Tianyuan Tan, Bo Fan, Yuting Lan, Zhenhua Zhang   +11 more
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The Khalkha Mongolian, Buryat and Kalmyk Languages: Common Clothes and Footwear Denoting Lexis

Oriental Studies, 2018
The article deals with the lexis denoting pieces of clothing and footwear in the major Mongolic languages, such as Khalkha, Buryat, and Kalmyk. The research into the historical background and semantics of the lexis in question has shown that the basic ...
Anna V. Mazarchuk
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