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Distribution pattern of an expanding Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) population in a changing environment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
We studied the nest site selection and distribution pattern at landscape level of the German Osprey population, and demonstrated how to test the predictions of the ideal free distribution theory and its derivatives on such an expanding population ...
Daniel Schmidt   +3 more
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Results of the 2016 Indianapolis Biodiversity Survey, Marion County, Indiana [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Surprising biodiversity can be found in cities, but urban habitats are understudied. We report on a bioblitz conducted primarily within a 24-hr period on September 16 and 17, 2016 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Dolan, Rebecca W.   +14 more
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TEM characterization of the fine scale microstructure of a Roman ferrous nail [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper describes the microstructure of a Roman ferrous nail through its observation by transmission electron microscopy. The morphologies of pearlitic colonies and ferritic grains are detailed and the relationship between pearlitic colonies and ...
Dabosi, Francis   +3 more
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Tracking the ancestral Portuguese name of the osprey across the Atlantic: hints from language, literature, history and geography

open access: yesArquivos de Zoologia, 2017
Guincho, the traditional Portuguese name of the osprey (Pandion haliaetus) is unique and ancestral. It is found in several sorts of fictional literature from the 16th up to the early 20th centuries in the form of a metaphor born from an old popular ...
Luís Manuel Palma
doaj  

PDNS-DODE: a discrete osprey optimization and differential evolution algorithm with PageRank diffusion neighborhood search for influence maximization in social networks [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ Computer Science
Online social networks have become crucial platforms for marketing, leveraging their vast user bases and capacity for rapid information dissemination. Influence maximization (IM) problem plays a central role in applications such as viral marketing and ...
Yu Zhang   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

A “theoretical double”: violence, religion and social order in Schmitt and Girard [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The contribution aims to compare Girard’s cultural anthropology with Schmitt’s political theory. Conceptual support for a parallel reading can be found in the key concepts and the social perspective shared by the two authors.
Salvatore, Andrea
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Mark Galeotti, Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine

open access: yesActa Universitatis Carolinae Studia Territorialia
Mark Galeotti, Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2022. 384 pages. ISBN 978-1-4728-475-4-6.
Matīss Lozda
doaj   +1 more source

Some reports of snowfall from fog during the UK winter of 2008/09 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Snowfall during anticyclonic, non-frontal, and foggy conditions is surprising. Because it is often not forecast, it can present a hazard to transport and modify the surface albedo.
Harrison, R. Giles, Wood, Curtis Ron
core   +1 more source

The Bait Purse-seine Fishery for Atlantic Menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus, in the Virginia Portion of Chesapeake Bay [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Through the mid 1990’s, the bait purse-seine fishery for Atlantic menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus, in the Virginia portion of Chesapeake Bay was essentially undocumented.
O'Bier, Bradley, Smith, Joseph W.
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The Portuguese Osprey Reintroduction Project: Achievements, Lessons and Perspectives

open access: yesПернатые хищники и их охрана, 2018
Ospreys bred along most of coastal Portugal until the beginning of the 20th century. Thereafter, a continuous decline due to persistent persecution and habitat loss led the species to extinction as a breeder in 2002, long after its disappearance from the
Luís Palma   +5 more
doaj  

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