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Effects of political identity activation and inaccurate metaperceptions on attitudes toward wolves

Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 3, June 2026.
Abstract Polarization between groups can undermine durable conservation outcomes. Activating group identities (i.e., an individual's sense of self derived from membership in a group) can exacerbate differences, especially when people hold inaccurate perceptions of their peers and rivals.
Alexander L. Metcalf, Justin W. Angle
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Shoreline Response to Hurricane Otis and Flooding Impact from Hurricane John in Acapulco, Mexico

Coasts
The city of Acapulco was impacted by two near-consecutive hurricanes. On 25 October 2023, Hurricane Otis made landfall, reaching the highest Category 5 storm on the Saffir–Simpson scale, causing extensive coastal destruction due to extreme winds and ...
Luis Valderrama-Landeros, Iliana Pérez-Espinosa, Edgar Villeda-Chávez, Rafael Alarcón-Medina, Francisco Flores-de-Santiago   +4 more
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Controller Design for a Second-Order Plant with Uncertain Parameters and Disturbance: Application to a DC Motor

Abstract and Applied Analysis, 2013
This paper shows the controller design for a second-order plant with unknown varying behavior in the parameters and in the disturbance. The state adaptive backstepping technique is used as control framework, but important modifications are introduced ...
Alejandro Rincón, Fredy E. Hoyos, Fabiola Angulo   +2 more
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Deconstructing Masculinity: A Mixed‐Methods Exploration of Health Access and Legal Implications Among Middle‐Aged Men in Yaoundé, Cameroon

Sexuality, Gender &Policy, Volume 9, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Masculinity significantly influences men's health‐seeking behaviors, yet its intersection with legal frameworks and healthcare access in Sub‐Saharan Africa remains underexplored. This mixed‐methods study investigates how gender norms and structural barriers influence healthcare experiences among 60 middle‐aged men (aged 30–60 years) in Yaoundé,
Ikekhwa Albert Ikhile, Carlos Joel Tchawouo Mbiada   +1 more
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Estrategia de control para robots manipuladores con realimentación visual y plataforma electro-neumática de 3gdl // Control Scheme for robots manipulators visual servoingand 3DOF electro-pneumatic platform

Ingeniería Mecánica, 2011
ResumenEn este artículo se presenta un esquema de control en el espacio de tarea para dos estructuras robóticas diferentes, una plataforma electro-neumática de tres grados de libertad y un sistema servovisual.
René González-Rodríguez, Luís Hernández-Santana, Eduardo Izaguirre, Ernesto Rubio   +3 more
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Online Risk Behaviours Among Adolescents: Identifying Areas of Digital Vulnerability

Children &Society, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 474-488, May 2026.
ABSTRACT As a period during which they undergo important physical, emotional and social changes, adolescence is of great importance for minors. In addition, adolescence is an initial stage in terms of children's use of their own mobile devices and their first access to the internet and social networks, an activity that becomes a generalised habit in ...
Sonia Carcelén‐García, Oliver Carrero Márquez, Myriam Durán Vilches   +2 more
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Evolution of Reproductive Plasticity in a Seasonal Tropical Environment

Ecology Letters, Volume 29, Issue 5, May 2026.
We reveal widespread occurrence of seasonal reproductive plasticity, including reproductive diapause, in Nymphalid butterflies in a seasonal rainforest in the Amazon. This highlights that, not only in temperate but also tropical habitats, seasonality is an important driver of plastic life history strategies. ABSTRACT Seasonality can drive the evolution
Marcus Hicks, Zunilda Escalante‐Arteaga, Lizett Retuerto‐Silva, Jamal Kabir, Tú Minh Au, Sridhar Halali, Geoffrey Gallice, Vicencio Oostra   +7 more
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Long‐Term Time Horizons and Support for Public Investment

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Generating public support for long‐term public investment may require understanding what citizens perceive as the “long term” in politics and how these perceptions shape their preferences. Across two studies, we find that UK citizens generally understand “long term” as 5–10 years.
Matthew Barnfield, Karl Pike, Philip Cowley   +2 more
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Different Types of Sounds and Their Relationship With the Electrocardiographic Signals and the Cardiovascular System – Review

Frontiers in Physiology, 2018
Background: For some time now, the effects of sound, noise, and music on the human body have been studied. However, despite research done through time, it is still not completely clear what influence, interaction, and effects sounds have on human body ...
Ennio H. Idrobo-Ávila, Humberto Loaiza-Correa, Leon van Noorden, Flavio G. Muñoz-Bolaños, Rubiel Vargas-Cañas   +4 more
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Who Deserves Scarce Health and Education Resources? How Policy Context Shapes Target Group Deservingness

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT The social construction of target populations (SCTP) framework emphasizes the ways in which target populations' levels of political power and deservingness shape the allocation of policy benefits, but less attention has been devoted to the conditions under which the same target population may be considered deserving in one policy context but ...
Elizabeth Bell, Monica C. Schneider, Dara Z. Strolovitch, Ari Ne'eman   +3 more
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