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Bison alter the northern Yellowstone ecosystem by breaking aspen saplings. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2023 We documented American bison (Bison bison) breaking the stems of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) saplings (young aspen >2 m in height) and examined the extent of this nonconsumptive effect on aspen recruitment in northern Yellowstone National Park.
Painter LE, Beschta RL, Ripple WJ.
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How to Write a Pathology Research Paper-Basic Principles and Beyond-A Primer for Residents. [PDF]
APMISABSTRACT Medical writing is an art but still it is usually not in the curriculum of medical students. With the beginning of scientific activity during residency, many perceive this gap increasingly, and stay behind their own expectations in their scientific productivity.
Kristiansen G.
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A Next Generation of Hierarchical Bayesian Analyses of Hybrid Zones Enables Model-Based Quantification of Variation in Introgression in R. [PDF]
Ecol EvolThe paper introduces a new R package, bgchm, designed for population genomic analyses of hybrid zones, offering efficient hierarchical Bayesian methods to estimate genetic ancestry and patterns of introgression across genomes. It extends existing software by integrating Hamiltonian Monte Carlo sampling and hierarchical Bayesian approaches.
Gompert Z, DeRaad DA, Buerkle CA.
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Range-wide population genomic structure of the Karner blue butterfly, <i>Plebejus</i> (<i>Lycaeides</i>) <i>samuelis</i>. [PDF]
Ecol EvolThe Karner blue butterfly, Plebejus (Lycaeides) samuelis, is an endangered, climate change‐vulnerable species that has undergone substantial historical habitat loss and population decline. We performed a range‐wide assessment of genomic diversity and found that Karner blue populations had high levels of inbreeding and lower genetic diversity than ...
Zhang J +10 more
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Noûs, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 877-904, December 2023., 2023 Abstract A long‐standing aim of cinema – in particular of ‘extreme’, ‘unwatchable’ or ‘feel‐ bad’ cinema – has been to acquaint viewers with extreme suffering. In this article I first offer an explication of that aim in terms of recent work in philosophy of mind, then exploit the resulting framework to examine claims to the effect that a new ...
Emmanuel Ordóñez Angulo
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How Stephen King writes and why: Language, immersion, emotion
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 78, Issue 5, Page 353-367, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Many successful novelists offer writing advice, but do they actually follow it themselves? And if so, can it truly account for the success of their novels? We dissect and examine three pieces of writing advice from Stephen King's book On Writing (2000). King counsels writers to (1) write in a simple language to aid readers' narrative immersion;
Marc Hye‐Knudsen +2 more
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Ghar ki tension: domesticity and distress in India's aspiring middle class
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 573-592, September 2023., 2023 Abstract Tension is a polysemic term used across South Asia to describe the strains and scrapes of life, like ‘worry’ or ‘stress’ in Euro‐American discourse. Yet in the formerly agro‐pastoralist and upwardly mobile Gaddi community of Himalayan India, it is used by women with the qualifying ghar ki – ‘household’ – to indicate a deeper disruption to ...
Nikita Simpson
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Metaphilosophy, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 429-441, July 2023., 2023 Abstract In Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism, Tracy Llanera places Richard Rorty in conversation with philosophers confronting nihilism as a “malaise of modernity.” She shows how Rortyan thought offers a horizontal and relational approach to “redemption,” as opposed to religious or philosophical paths to be saved by higher beings or ideas ...
Elin Danielsen Huckerby
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Seeing the green cucumber: Reflections on variation theory and teaching plant identification
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 4, Issue 3, Page 258-268, May 2022., 2022 Overcoming ‘plant blindness’ is a critical goal for society and especially for education. In this article, we suggest variation theory can be a useful approach to plant identification training and evaluation in higher education contexts. We discuss an example from Swedish higher education in which we reflect on our teaching.
Dawn Sanders +3 more
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A Theory of Genre Formation in the Twentieth Century [PDF]
, 2015 In his article "A Theory of Genre Formation in the Twentieth Century" Michael Rodgers explores the relationship between Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading and magical realism in order to theorize about genre formation in the twentieth century ...
Rodgers, Michael
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