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Write a Scientific Paper course – Utility or otherwise?
Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia, 2022 Background: Publish or perish is a cliched mantra but publishing requires the acquisition of a wide set of disparate skills that are typically learned in a completely ad-hoc manner in an early period of one's career.
Victor Grech +2 more
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Long live the wasp: adult longevity in captive colonies of the eusocial paper wasp Polistes canadensis (L.) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Insects have been used as an exemplary model in studying longevity, from extrinsic mortality pressures to intrinsic senescence. In the highly eusocial insects, great degrees of variation in lifespan exist between morphological castes in relation to ...
Robin J. Southon +3 more
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Modelling the impacts of an invasive species across landscapes: a step-wise approach [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 We estimate the extent of ecological impacts of the invasive Asian paper wasp across different landscapes in New Zealand. We used: (i) a baseline distribution layer (modelled via MaxEnt); (ii) Asian paper wasp nest density (from >460 field plots, related
Darren Ward, Fraser Morgan
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Transitive inference in Polistes paper wasps [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2019 Transitive inference (TI) is a form of logical reasoning that involves using known relationships to infer unknown relationships (A > B; B > C; then A > C). TI has been found in a wide range of vertebrates but not in insects. Here, we test whether Polistes dominula and Polistes metricus
Elizabeth A. Tibbetts +3 more
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Paper wasp nest-mediated biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles for antimicrobial, catalytic, anticoagulant, and thrombolytic applications. [PDF]
3 Biotech, 2016 Lateef A +5 more
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Predictors of nest growth: diminishing returns for subordinates in the paper wasp Polistes dominula. [PDF]
Behav Ecol Sociobiol, 2018 Grinsted L, Field J.
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Allergology International, 2015 Background: Ves v 5 and Pol d 5, which constitute antigen 5, are recognized as the major, most potent allergens of family Vespidae. Several studies have reported the diagnostic sensitivity of the novel recombinant (r)Ves v 5 and rPol d 5 allergens in ...
Naruo Yoshida +6 more
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WASP (Write a Scientific Paper): Discourse analysis [PDF]
Early Human Development, 2019 Discourse analysis enables the identification of what social actors say and do but also of what they represent in terms of values and motivation Such an analysis can also unearth ideological representations which legitimize the reproduction of social structures, irrespective of whether such representations reflect some objective reality or not.
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Entomological CommunicationsNon-aggressive interactions between Neotropical social wasps (Vespidae) and birds frequently occur but remain poorly understood. Typically categorized as commensalism, where birds benefit while no advantages for the wasps have been documented, the ...
Alexandre Somavilla +2 more
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Energies, 2020 This paper presents several applications of Wien Automatic System Planning (WASP) tool to address specific modeling challenges encountered in power system expansion planning problems.
Mladen Zeljko +3 more
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