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‘Using anuran community diversity and Pseudacris crucifer to predict landscape quality across a land use gradient'

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
As human‐modified landscape and climate changes proliferate, maintaining biodiversity and understanding the function and quality of available habitat is imperative. As anurans (frogs/toads) such as Pseudacris crucifer, can be an indicator species of habitat quality and ecosystem productivity, studying the anuran community in a mixed‐land use region ...
Brian C. Kron, Karen V. Root
wiley   +1 more source

Micro‐habitat selection by boreal woodland caribou improves access to food

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Bio‐logging sensors attached to radiotelemetry receivers have great potential to transform our understanding of the ecological, physiological, and energetic constraints that shape patterns of wildlife movement under field conditions. We used video camera collars to assess microhabitat selectivity by woodland caribou Rangifer tarandus in boreal forests ...
Ian D. Thompson   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Use of Dramatic Demonstrations to Enhance the Motivation and Learning of Chemistry Students [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
As part of the Virginia Collaborative for Excellence in the Preparation of Teachers (VCEPT) project, a series of demonstrations was incorporated into Chemistry 100: Man and Environment, a science course taken by non-science majors including many ...
Rowe, H. A.
core   +1 more source

Drivers of phenological transitions in the seedling life stage

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Plant functional ecology research has primarily focused on juvenile and adult plants even though regeneration from seed can be the most consequential life‐history bottleneck with cascading influence on later stages of growth and reproduction.
Mandy L. Slate   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

No Final Victories: The Incompleteness of Equity’s Triumph in Federal Public Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
Prominent areas in which the US Supreme Court has denied equitable relief are examined, demonstrating the limited nature of equity\u27s triumph in federal public law.
Rowe, Thomas D., Jr.
core   +2 more sources

Changing From the Top: New Outsider CEO and TMT Structure Change

open access: yesBritish Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract Understanding how new CEOs change top management teams (TMTs) is central to explaining post‐succession outcomes. We examine how new outsider CEOs change the TMT's structural interdependence, which refers to the horizontal, vertical and reward linkages that influence collaboration and coordination.
Can Aktan, Maximilian Weis
wiley   +1 more source

The Policy and Politics of Improving Standards in the English Private Rented Sector

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The standard of existing homes in the English private rented sector (PRS) presents several challenges. As the sector has expanded, issues of inadequate renovation, maintenance and upgrading have assumed greater salience. Research has also highlighted enforcement challenges which make it more difficult to raise property standards and improve ...
Alice Earley, Alex Marsh, Ken Gibb
wiley   +1 more source

Outcomes and Efficacy of the Bristow-Latarjet Technique in Shoulder Instability: A Case Series

open access: yesBabcock University Medical Journal
Objective: The glenohumeral joint is the most mobile in the human body because of its structural anatomy. This mobility renders the joint susceptible to dislocation, most commonly anterior dislocation.
Kareem KArrar
doaj   +1 more source

The Early Upper Palaeolithic in British caves: problems and potential Le Paléolithique supérieur ancien dans les grottes de Grande‐Bretagne : problèmes et potentiels

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Recent years have seen landmark progress in our understanding of early Homo sapiens occupation of Europe, owing to new excavations and the application of new analytical methods. Research on British sites, however, continues to lag. This is because of limitations inherent in existing cave collections, and limited options for new fieldwork at known sites.
Robert Dinnis
wiley   +1 more source

Family Matters: Exploring the Link Between Parental and Executive Financial Misconduct

open access: yesJournal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a novel data set of misconduct records for Finnish CEOs and directors and their parents, we explore whether corporate executives’ financial misconduct is associated with similar behavior by their parents. Controlling for various other factors of executive financial misconduct, we find that executives are significantly more likely to ...
JENNI KALLUNKI   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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