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Veterinary students’ choices of clinical extramural placements are associated with their final‐year examination performance

open access: yesVeterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background UK veterinary students must complete 20 weeks of clinical extramural studies (EMS) in placements of their choice. We investigated the associations between EMS choices and performance in the final‐year ‘livestock and One Health’, ‘equine’ and ‘small animal’ written examinations.
Matthew Barden   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aquaculture and Marine Protected Areas: Exploring Potential Opportunities and Synergies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This new publication, aims at exploring potential opportunities and synergies between aquaculture and conservation. Acknowledging that both aquaculture and MPA may benefit from each other in striving for global sustainable development, here are some of ...
Dan Laffoley   +2 more
core  

Mobile consumers influence the shoreward edge of intertidal seagrass ecosystems

open access: yesJournal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Ecological paradigms suggest that the environmentally stressful edge of a habitat is determined by physical factors. The work finds that, counter to these paradigms, an environmentally stressful edge can also be impacted by biotic interactions and are more complex than suggested.
Stephanie R. Valdez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

Extraocular Photoreception in Optic Lobes, Suckers, and Skin of Octopus vulgaris

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Evidence of extra‐ocular photoreception in Octopus vulgaris (a) Diagram of the O. vulgaris different tissues considered: SPB, sucker proximal big; SPL, sucker proximal large; SM, sucker medium; SD, sucker distal; SK, skin; OL, optic lobes; RT, retina; (b‐d) Gene expression analysis of Ov‐GRK1 (red), Ov‐retinochrome (green), Ov‐rhodopsin (blue) mRNA ...
Valeria Maselli   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

INDUSTRIAL AGGLOMERATION AND PRODUCTION COSTS IN NORWEGIAN SALMON AQUACULTURE [PDF]

open access: yes
During the last decade, empirical evidence of regional agglomeration economies has emerged for some industries. This paper argues that externalities from agglomeration are not only present in some manufacturing and service sectors, but can also occur in ...
Tveteras, Ragnar
core   +1 more source

Parasite spill-back from domestic hosts may induce an Allee effect in wildlife hosts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The exchange of native pathogens between wild and domesticated animals can lead to novel disease dynamics. A simple model reveals that the spill-back of native parasites\ud from domestic to wild hosts may cause a demographic Allee effect.
Ashander, J., Krkošek, M., Lewis, M. A.
core   +1 more source

Queen Anne's Wardrobe: Fashion, Sartorial Politics, and the Representational Strategies of the Last Stuart Queen

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
wiley   +1 more source

Deep Learning for Automated Egg Maturation Prediction of Atlantic Salmon Using Ultrasound Imaging

open access: yesIEEE Access
The Atlantic salmon maturation process has been studied for decades to increase the quantity and quality of the production in farming facilities. An important topic in this context is the salmon egg maturation process. Ultrasound imaging is considered an
Yasin Yari   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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