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Drivers of Mouse Plagues: Exceptional Rainfall Following Prolonged Drought Triggers Mouse Plagues in Southeastern Australia

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
This study identified a specific sequence of an extended drought followed by exceptional rainfall as a necessary precursor for mouse plagues in southeastern Australia. Long‐term rainfall anomalies interact with ecological processes to reset population dynamics, creating conditions that support rapid mouse population growth following periods of ...
Peter R. Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Full Discretion is Inevitable

open access: yesThe RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article studies a dynamic project‐selection game between a Principal and an Agent with conflicting interests. Only the Agent knows what projects are feasible. In each period before a project is selected, the Principal imposes a restriction set. The Agent can select any feasible project within this set, thereby ending the game.
Wenhao Li
wiley   +1 more source

What Was ‘Middle Australia’? Social Categorisation and Political Positioning in the Late‐20th Century

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Middle Australia’ became a ubiquitous term of social categorisation and political positioning during the latter decades of the 20th century. This article examines how this concept was variously used in the metropolitan print media in the guises of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age of Melbourne, including in their reporting of federal and ...
Chris Beer
wiley   +1 more source

Reviewing fast or slow: A theory of summary reversal in the judicial hierarchy

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Appellate courts with discretionary dockets have multiple ways to review lower courts. We develop a formal model that evaluates the trade‐offs between “full review”—which features full briefing, oral arguments, and signed opinions—versus “quick review,” where a higher court can summarily reverse a lower court. We show that having the option of
Alexander V. Hirsch   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A study of zinc transporter 1 and its role in Type 3 Haemochromatosis

open access: yes, 2009
Hereditary haemochromatosis is an autosomal recessive disorder of iron metabolism, characterised by increased iron absorption and progressive iron accumulation particularly in the liver.
Parkinson, Liza
core  

The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
wiley   +1 more source

A Gilbert–Varshamov-type bound for lattice packings

open access: yes, 2011
A Gilbert–Varshamov-type bound for Euclidean packings was recently found by Nebe and Xing. In this present paper, we derive a Gilbert–Varshamov-type bound for lattice packings by generalizing Rush's approach of combining p-ary codes with the lattice pZn.
Yeo, Sze Ling   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Market expansion and litigation deterrence effects of patents: Evidence from Chinese exporters

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract China's overseas patents grew rapidly in the past two decades at the same time as China became the world's largest exporter of merchandise goods. This paper investigates the effects of overseas patents on the volume and prices of Chinese firms' exports. We consider two channels.
Xinghua Deng, Ran Jing, John Ries
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal and Suboptimal Singleton Arc Consistency Algorithms

open access: yes, 2004
Singleton arc consistency (SAC) enhances the pruning capability of arc consistency by ensuring that the network cannot become arc inconsistent after the assignment of a value to a variable.
Christian Bessière   +3 more
core  

Noisy Graph Patterns via Ordered Matrices

open access: yesComputer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract The high‐level structure of a graph is a crucial ingredient for the analysis and visualization of relational data. However, discovering the salient graph patterns that form this structure is notoriously difficult for two reasons. (1) Finding important patterns, such as cliques and bicliques, is computationally hard.
J. Wulms, W. Meulemans, B. Speckmann
wiley   +1 more source

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