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Altered photoperiod affects behaviour in a key fish grazer, the thinlip grey mullet, Chelon ramada

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract The aim of this study is to address experimentally the immediate impacts of an alteration of the photoperiod, simulating an extreme artificial light pollution, on the behaviour and stress of a key grazer fish common in temperate coastal ecosystems in Europe, the thinlip grey mullet, Chelon ramada.
Caroline Roux, Alex Bois, Patrick Chèvre, Fabrice Vétillard, Philippe Jatteau, Marie‐Laure Bégout, Soizic Morin, Laure Carassou   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nighttime light dynamics reveal peri-urban brightening and population decoupling in the Chengdu Chongqing megaregion

Scientific Reports
Night-time light (NTL) composites offer a unique spatiotemporal view of urban growth by capturing electricity consumption, infrastructure density, and economic activity patterns that traditional land-cover surveys cannot fully reveal, yet inland China’s ...
Wenli Liang, Rui Liu, Pinglang Kou
doaj   +1 more source

Real and Apparent Deviations From Rational Choice

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper offers a taxonomy of real and apparent deviations from rationality. The taxonomy is based on three axes of divides—whereas the axes are successive refinements. The outermost‐axis divide delineates “anxiety‐based choices” from “anxiety‐free choices.” Anxiety‐based choices are real deviations such as the Allais and Ellsberg paradoxes ...
Elias L. Khalil
wiley   +1 more source

Remembering Independence, Debating the Nation: Ghana's National Days

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Ghana, Independence Day is the most important national day and has been annually observed since the attainment of independence in 1957. Additional national days that various military governments introduced to commemorate their ascension to power have been rather short‐lived. Other holidays like Republic Day or Founder's Day have been longer
Carola Lentz
wiley   +1 more source

Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada syndrome – current perspectives

Clinical Ophthalmology, 2016
Abeir Baltmr,1 Sue Lightman,1,2 Oren Tomkins-Netzer1–3 1Uveitis Service, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK; 2Department of Clinical Ophthalmology, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK; 3Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of ...
Baltmr A, Lightman S, Tomkins-Netzer O
doaj  

The Intracluster Light of Abell 3667: Unveiling an Optical Bridge in LSST Precursor Data

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Intracluster light (ICL), the diffuse glow of stars stripped from galaxies during a cluster’s formation, is an established tracer of a cluster’s dynamical history. The upcoming Vera C.
Anthony M. Englert, Ian Dell’Antonio, Mireia Montes   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of an Integrated steM Camp on Middle School Students' Enjoyment, Career Knowledge, and Career Interest

School Science and Mathematics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Much of the work in STEM camps tends to be science‐driven with little attention given to mathematics. Guided by a mixed methods embedded research design using data from observations, questionnaires, and a group interview, we investigate if a camp that explicitly integrates mathematics had a positive impact on middle school students' STEM ...
Queshonda J. Kudaisi, Daniel G. Krutka, Christopher Sean Long, Michael J. Leonas‐Cabrera   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Living in the Mycelial World

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
wiley   +1 more source

Re‐evaluating the Rise of Anglophone Malaysian Historical Fiction in the Twenty‐First Century

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the turn of the century, anglophone Malaysian historical fiction has gained significant global recognition, so much so that it has become the dominant genre. However, notwithstanding this enviable evolution in the country's English‐language literature, it is not without issues, due to the genre's somewhat orientalist representation of ...
Andrew Hock Soon Ng
wiley   +1 more source