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Over-Representation of Sperm-Associated Deleterious Mutations Across Wild and Ex Situ Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) Populations. [PDF]

Mol Ecol
Peers JA, Sibley HR, Armstrong EE, Crosier AE, Nash WJ, Koepfli KP, Haerty W.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Seeing the World Through a Dark Lens: The Dark Core of Personality and Its Relation to Primal World Beliefs

Journal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Aversive (“dark”) personality traits are traditionally studied as predictors of harmful or manipulative behavior, yet their underlying cognitive‐affective structures remain underexplored. This research investigates whether the Dark Core of personality (D)—the common aversive essence of all dark traits—is associated with primal world ...
Robin Schrödter, Benjamin E. Hilbig
wiley   +1 more source

Founder Effects, Density, and Droughts Alter the Demographic Responses in Insular Elephant Populations

Journal of Zoology, EarlyView.
The management of insular elephant populations is being compromised, thereby affecting the natural ecological processes that may regulate their numbers. Here, we illustrate demographic responses in two case studies from South Africa by reflecting on the historical legacy of elephant population establishment and how a lack of dispersal may hinder ...
Robert A. R. Guldemond, Sam Ferreira, Hannes Louw, Yolandi Ernst, John Power, Bernard W. T. Coetzee   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Development Costs of Revolution: Evidence From Violent and Nonviolent Transitions

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using data from the Varieties of Democracy (V‐Dem) project and the NAVCO catalog (1950–2019), we estimate the developmental effects of successful revolutions through difference‐in‐differences models and event studies. Our findings differ from common expectations: neither violent nor nonviolent revolutions consistently deliver expected ...
Shishir Shakya, Joshua D. Ammons, Towhid Iqram Mahmood   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring factors affecting nurses' job satisfaction at a regional hospital in Namibia. [PDF]

Curationis
Kalomo MM, Ashipala DO, Lifalaza A, Anyolo E, Amadhila J.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Financial Development and Banking Risk: International Evidence for the Role of Financial Institutions and Markets

The Manchester School, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the effects of financial development on banking risk using a panel of 125 countries (2000–2019), of which 92 are developing economies. However, financial development consists of advances in both financial institutions and financial markets, which may have distinct effects on banking risk.
Gabriel Caldas Montes, Vitor Manuel Araújo da Fonseca   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early post-fire declines of mammals in a tree-and-shrub savanna. [PDF]

Oecologia
Verschueren S, Ruozzi ML, Marker L, Leirs H, Cristescu B.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Macroeconomic Effects of Public Investment in EMDEs: Nonlinear Effects of the Business Cycle, Fiscal Space, Capital Stock and Efficiency

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines the macroeconomic effects of public investment in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). To this end the analysis develops a new measure of public investment shocks based on cyclically adjusted government investment.
Amat Adarov, Benedict Clements, João Tovar Jalles   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An analysis of the registration of essential medicines in Namibia: a proxy measure of the availability of essential medicines. [PDF]

J Pharm Policy Pract
Aluvilu AN, Sheehama JEK, Shifotoka SN, Nabyonga-Orem J, Brhlikova P.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Marital Dissolution, Repartnering, and the Realization of Fertility Desires in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Population and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Women who experience union disruption in sub‐Saharan Africa tend to have lower fertility than those in stable unions. It remains unclear, however, whether this pattern reflects lower fertility desires, constrained opportunities to achieve desired fertility, or both.
Ben Malinga John, Sara Yeatman
wiley   +1 more source