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From the predator to the prey: a case study of the vulnerability of Harmonia axyridis to aggressive competitors

open access: yesInsect Science, EarlyView.
The level of aggressiveness of an individual is a factor that shapes intraguild predation (IGP) interactions. In Nabis americoferus, high aggressiveness leads to an increase in attack rate and IGP against Harmonia axyridis. Moreover, the absence of extraguild prey seems to exacerbate IGP. In docile N.
Pierre Royer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE MECHANISM OF ACTION OF THE NON-EXISTENCE METAPHOR IN A. A. KABAKOV’S STORY «PROJECT “BABYLON”»

open access: yesВестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2014
The address to A. A. Kabakov’s creative individuality is actual in the context of small amount of works, investigating his prose. The novelty of the research consists in revealing a method of metaphor realization on the material of one of the writer’s ...
O. V. Sizykh
doaj  

Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
wiley   +1 more source

Do Sustainability Restatements Impair Financial Analysts’ Earnings Forecast Accuracy?

open access: yesAbacus, EarlyView.
This paper examines empirically the association between sustainability restatements (SRS), that is, restatements in sustainability reports, and analyst forecast accuracy, measured by analysts’ forecast errors for current‐year earnings. We find that SRS are related to greater earnings forecast errors, especially when they are related to environmental or
Isabel Cristin Hertl, Janine Maniora
wiley   +1 more source

Fractional Laplacian: Pohozaev identity and nonexistence results

open access: yes
In this Note we present the Pohozaev identity for the fractional Laplacian. As a consequence of this identity, we prove the nonexistence of nontrivial bounded solutions to semilinear problems with supercritical nonlinearities in star-shaped domains.Peer ...
Serra Montolí, Joaquim   +1 more
core  

Lorenz equations, Part I: Existence and nonexistence of homoclinic orbits

open access: yes, 1995
Chen, Xinfu. (1995). Lorenz equations, Part I: Existence and nonexistence of homoclinic orbits.
Chen, Xinfu
core  

Defence Contracting and Accrual‐Based Earnings Management

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine accrual‐based earnings management in Spanish defence firms in 2011–2020, using a unique database from the Spanish Ministry of Defence. We find higher levels of accrual‐based earnings management and lower accrual quality in firms where defence contracts represent a high proportion of their total sales.
Francisco José Callado‐Muñoz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food without fire: Environmental and nutritional impacts from a solar stove field experiment

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Over 80% of the population in rural Sub‐Saharan Africa relies on biomass cooking fuel, a substantial source of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. We use a field experiment in Zambia to investigate the impact of solar stoves on biomass fuel use and cooking habits.
Laura E. McCann   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the Nonexistence of Orthogonal Latin Squares of Order Six

open access: yes, 1975
8 pages, 1 article*On the Nonexistence of Orthogonal Latin Squares of Order Six* (Federer, W.
Cornell University. Dept. of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology.   +4 more
core  

A novel lightweight medical blockchain data query scheme. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Zhu Y   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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