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Novel Quantification of Eggshell Surfaces in Dromaius novaehollandiae With Implications for the Fossil Eggshells of Oviraptorosauria (Dinosauria) [PDF]

open access: yesEcology and Evolution
The external surfaces of non‐avian dinosaur eggs are not usually smooth like those of their avian descendants. Unique ornamentation patterns sculpt the exterior of the eggs, a trait that is difficult to interpret because of its scarcity in modern taxa ...
Joshua Hedge   +2 more
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INTERPRETATIVE TRENDS OF BEETHOVEN’S ORNAMENTATION [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Musica, 2023
Outstanding representative of the classical music composed in the transition period from XVIIIth to XIXth centuries, Ludwig van Beethoven remains memorable in the history of music through the strength, audacity, and remarkable rhetoric of his musical ...
Mihaela ITIGAN, Stela DRĂGULIN
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The development of a quantification method for measuring iridescence using sexually selected traits in the Gulf pipefish (Syngnathus scovelli)

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2023
Reliably quantifying the strength of visual sexual signals, such as iridescence, has been challenging across the field of evolutionary biology, but is critically important for studying biologically relevant trait variation.
Nicole M. Tosto   +4 more
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The impact of ocean acidification on the functional morphology of foraminifera [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This work was supported by the NERC UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme grant NE/H017445/1. WENA acknowledges NERC support (NE/G018502/1). DMP received funding from the MASTS pooling initiative (The Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for ...
Nikki Khanna   +20 more
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Changes in the shell ornamentation of conchostracans (Phyllopoda, Spinicaudata) at the Permian–Triassic boundary: Case studies from Eastern Europe, Kuznetsk basin, and Verkhoyansk Region

open access: yesУчёные записки Казанского университета: Серия Естественные науки, 2022
This article sums up the results of our study on shell ornamentation of 13 conchostracan species. Their fossil remains were sampled from the Middle and Upper Permian, Induan, and Olenekian (Lower Triassic) deposits of different zoogeographical provinces.
V.V. Zharinova, V.V. Silantiev
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Kitchen Ware from Southern Aral Sea Region in the Golden Horde Period

open access: yesАрхеология евразийских степей, 2022
The paper considers the technological and typological features, and ornamental motifs of unglazed ceramics for kitchen purposes, discovered during archaeological excavations in the South Aral Sea settlements, related to the period of the Golden Horde. It
Sadulla T. Saipov
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Early Medieval Pithos-Jugs Discovered in the Volga Delta

open access: yesАрхеология евразийских степей, 2022
The paper introduces into scientific discourse the details of early medieval ceramic containers discovered in the course of studies by the Astrakhan Museum-Reserve and the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences conducted at the ...
Damir S. Soloviev, Sergey A. Kotenkov
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Early Iron Age complex of the Lastochkino Gnezdo 1 settlement in the Lower Ishim river basin

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2018
In this article, we present the results of a study carried out at the Early Iron Age site in the multi-layered settlement Lastochkino Gnezdo 1 in the Lower Ishim river basin.
Ilyushina V.V., Rafikova T.N.
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Extreme offspring ornamentation in American coots is favored by selection within families, not benefits to conspecific brood parasites [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Offspring ornamentation typically occurs in taxa with parental care, suggesting that selection arising from social interactions between parents and offspring may underlie signal evolution.
Lyon, Bruce E., Shizuka, Daizaburo
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In(-)formations. The Meaning of Paratextual Elements in Debussy's Syrinx

open access: yesMuzikološki Zbornik, 2005
According to Gérard Genette, paratextual elements can be defined as that what comes against, beside, and in addition to the text (a score for example) 'itself'. In that sense, they are always subordinate to 'their' text.
Marcel Cobussen
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