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Under pressure: the relationship between vertebrate populations and high-intensity cumulative threats in habitats across Canada

FACETS
Biodiversity and human pressures are unevenly distributed, and understanding local patterns is key to appropriately directing conservation action. Here, we investigate the relationship between spatially explicit high-intensity cumulative threats (HICTs ...
Jessica Currie, Hannah Puleston, Valentina Marconi, Chris Liang, Stefanie Deinet, Adam C. Smith, Louise McRae, Sophie Ledger, James Snider, Robin Freeman   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of a Position Measuring Device of a Deep-Sea Pipeline Based on Flange Center Positioning

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2020
A deep-sea pipeline position and attitude-measuring device based on pipeline outer circle positioning can measure the spatial relative positions of the end faces of two oil pipelines in the deep sea.
Zhuo Wang, Hong-xing Dang, Tao Wang, Bo Zhang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

English speakers in outer-circle and expanding-circle settings

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
Abstract Drawing upon Kachru's concentric circles of English, the present study explores whether middle-class Japanese students who chose to study English solo at private language schools in Singapore diverge from many others who (wish to) study inner-circle English.
openaire   +2 more sources

Genus Ranges of Chord Diagrams

, 2014
A chord diagram consists of a circle, called the backbone, with line segments, called chords, whose endpoints are attached to distinct points on the circle.
Jonathan Burns, Masahico Saito, Mohar B., Nataša Jonoska   +3 more
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The role and status of English in Turkish higher education [PDF]

, 2014
Kachru’s (1992) Eccentric Circles framework has been very influential in understanding and explaining trends in the unprecedented spread of English around the world.
Arık, Beril T., Arık, Engin
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True fertilisation failure in captivity is rare

Global Ecology and Conservation
Species recovery through captive breeding can be hindered by low reproductive success. However, we know little about the drivers of early reproductive failure in captive populations, due to difficulties distinguishing fertilisation failure from early ...
Ashleigh F. Marshall, François Balloux, Liz Brown, Edmund Flach, Anne Richardson, Tammy E. Steeves, Simon Spiro, Gary Ward, Nicola Hemmings, Patricia Brekke   +9 more
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Facilitating Intercultural Encounters with International Students: A Contribution to Inclusion and Social Network Formation

Social Inclusion, 2021
Higher education has become increasingly mobile and international, with many students taking the opportunity to study abroad during their studies. When they do so, forming and maintaining social networks is fundamental for their development of a sense of
Katharina Resch, José Pedro Amorim
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Radial mixing and the transition between the thick and thin Galactic discs

, 2008
The analysis of the kinematics of solar neighbourhood stars shows that the low and high metallicity tails of the thin disc are populated by objects which orbital properties suggest an origin in the outer and inner galactic disc, respectively.
Arifyanto, Bensby, Bensby, Bensby, Binney, Brook, Carney, Chen, De Simone, Demarque, Edvardsson, Famaey, Famaey, Fuhrmann, Gilli, Gilmore, Grenon, Haywood, Helmi, Jørgensen, Lépine, M. Haywood, Minchev, Mishenina, Navarro, Nordström, Reddy, Reddy, Roškar, Sellwood, Soubiran, Valenti, Wielen, Wielen, Wyse, Yong   +35 more
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Representation of inner, outer and expanding circle varieties and cultures in global ELT textbooks

Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2020
The rise of world Englishes has challenged the emphasis on native-speaker accents and cultures in English language teaching. This study aimed to investigate the representation of world Englishes and cultures in three global language teaching textbooks ...
Zia Tajeddin, Maryam Pakzadian
doaj   +1 more source

Plecstatin inhibits hepatocellular carcinoma tumorigenesis and invasion through cytolinker plectin

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
The ruthenium‐based metallodrug plecstatin exerts its anticancer effect in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) primarily through selective targeting of plectin. By disrupting plectin‐mediated cytoskeletal organization, plecstatin inhibits anchorage‐dependent growth, cell polarization, and tumor cell dissemination.
Zuzana Outla, Jan Kosla, Magdalena Prechova, Lukas Frick, Patricia Bortel, Yasmin Borutzki, Andrea Bileck, Christopher Gerner, Samuel M. Meier‐Menches, Selma Osmanagic‐Myers, Martin Gregor   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source