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Revisiting the predation paradox for the Wood Thrush, a declining Neotropical migrant
Abstract Despite an increased density of mid‐trophic level predators in urban and suburban areas compared to rural areas, the survival of smaller prey animals, including the eggs and chicks of nesting songbirds, often remains relatively high in these areas.
Melanie L. Klein +3 more
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Navigating urban ecology: Conceptual and methodological insights
Abstract Since its consolidation as a sub‐discipline of ecology in the late 1990s, urban ecology has grown substantially, enhancing our understanding of how urbanization shapes biodiversity and how biodiversity adapts to urbanization. Inherently interdisciplinary in its scope and application, urban ecology is rooted in multiple theoretical and ...
Ian MacGregor‐Fors +16 more
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Information Shocks, Legal Liability and Physician Decisions
ABSTRACT Physician adoption of new information about a medical procedure can affect patient outcomes. Medical malpractice law may influence physician use of such information. We analyze how physician reactions to information shocks regarding vaginal births after cesarean sections (VBACs) in the 1990s were mediated by tort reform and the standard used ...
David Mushinski, Sammy Zahran
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Association Between Changes in Racial Residential Segregation and Trends in Racial Disparities in Early Mortality in 220 Metropolitan Areas, 2001-2018. [PDF]
Siegel M +4 more
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ABSTRACT Background and Aim Based on the self‐determination theory (SDT), this study primarily aimed to examine the reliability and validity of the Hungarian version of the Participation Motivation Questionnaire (PMQ) among 13–15‐year‐old female students, and secondarily to describe their motivational profiles and the relationships between motives and ...
Narges Ghazvini +4 more
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Land suitability analysis in monocentric post-socialist city: Case of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. [PDF]
Boldbaatar G +5 more
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ABSTRACT Introduction In today's multiethnic schools, promoting youth connectedness and well‐being requires equipping students with the skills to navigate cultural diversity. Cultural intelligence (CQ), defined as the ability to interact effectively across diverse cultural contexts, is a key asset in this regard. This study explored whether the Italian
Xiwei Zhang +2 more
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Creating Flood Disasters: Environmental Memory and Adaptation in Aotearoa New Zealand
This article explores three questions. First, why does New Zealand have widespread flooding hazards? Second, why are these persistent, with little seemingly learned from the memory of earlier events? And third, beyond reiterating conventional solutions, what examples of alternatives or adaptations are being developed in different places?
Eric Pawson
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The Challenges of Domestic Wastewater/Sewage Systems for Māori Communities
The development of domestic wastewater systems in contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand has presented a significant challenge for Māori communities. While those communities have supported attempts to address the pollution of land and waterways through modern treatment methods, the solution has included continuing discharges of sometimes untreated and often
Martin Fisher, Shaun Ogilvie
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Macroplastic and other types of macroscopic anthropogenic litter (AL; trash, particles > 5 mm) are pervasive across ecosystems, persistent in the environment, increasing in abundance, and can degrade into microplastics (particles < 5 mm). Rivers retain and transform AL prior to export downstream, but improved predictions of AL distribution and movement
Bailey A. Schwenk +10 more
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