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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2020 Background The provision of psychometrically valid patient reported outcomes (PROs) improves patient outcomes and reflects their quality of life. Consequently, ad hoc clinician-generated questionnaires of the past are being replaced by more rigorous ...
Minji K. Lee +3 more
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Efficient Methods for Rearing Strong Bee Queens
Scientific Papers Animal Science and Biotechnologies, 2023 The aim was to choose the most efficient method to rear genetically strong queens: by overcrowding swarm or by orphaning the bees. The experiment was conducted in a private apiary in Teleorman County, between April and September 2015.
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Minimising orphaning in the brown hare Lepus europaeus in England and Wales:should a close season be introduced? [PDF]
, 2017 The European brown hare Lepus europaeus is an r-selected species showing relatively high fecundity, and changes in the hare population can be influenced by the timing of hunting and reproductive activity.
Butterworth, Andrew +2 more
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Inverse association of natural mentoring relationship with distress mental health in children orphaned by AIDS [PDF]
, 2010 BackgroundThe magnitude of the AIDS-orphaned children crisis in sub-Saharan Africa has so overstretched the resource of most families that the collapse of fostering in the sub-region seems imminent (UNICEF, 2003), fueling the need for a complementary ...
Munakata Tsunetsugu +2 more
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Aligning mountain lion hunting seasons to mitigate orphaning dependent kittens
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2018 Hunting results in direct numerical effects and numerous indirect effects on game species. One indirect effect occurs when a female is killed; and as a consequence, her dependent offspring die, negatively affecting recruitment rates.
Connor O'malley +4 more
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Functional coupling of a nematode chemoreceptor to the yeast pheromone response pathway.
PLoS ONE, 2014 Sequencing of the Caenorhabditis elegans genome revealed sequences encoding more than 1,000 G-protein coupled receptors, hundreds of which may respond to volatile organic ligands.
Muhammad Tehseen +6 more
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Changes in reproductive roles are associated with changes in gene expression in fire ant queens. [PDF]
, 2010 In species with social hierarchies, the death of dominant individuals typically upheaves the social hierarchy and provides an opportunity for subordinate individuals to become reproductives.
Keller, L., Wang, J., Wurm, Y.
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Bourgeois queens and high stakes games in the ant
Frontiers in Zoology, 2009 Background Many animals face some form of conflict over reproductive opportunities. Queen selection in social insect colonies represents a high-stakes conflict where competition occurs among multiple queens for a few or a single reproductive role(s). The
Monnin Thibaud, Cronin Adam L
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Evolutionary Game for Mining Pool Selection in Blockchain Networks
, 2017 In blockchain networks adopting the proof-of-work schemes, the monetary incentive is introduced by the Nakamoto consensus protocol to guide the behaviors of the full nodes (i.e., block miners) in the process of maintaining the consensus about the ...
Liu, Xiaojun +4 more
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Medicinski pregled, 2013 Introduction. Drugs used for treatment of rare diseases are known worldwide under the term of orphan drugs because pharmaceutical companies have not been interested in ?adopting? them, that is in investing in research, developing and producing these drugs.
Svetlana Golocorbin-Kon +4 more
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