The evolution, distribution and diversity of endogenous circoviral elements in vertebrate genomes [PDF]
, 2018 Circoviruses (family Circoviridae) are small, non-enveloped viruses that have short, single-stranded DNA genomes. Circovirus sequences are frequently recovered in metagenomic investigations, indicating that these viruses are widespread, yet they remain ...
Dennis, Tristan P.W. +5 more
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Trispectrum versus Bispectrum in Single-Field Inflation [PDF]
, 2009 In the standard slow-roll inflationary cosmology, quantum fluctuations in a single field, the inflaton, generate approximately Gaussian primordial density perturbations.
J. P. Bruneton +3 more
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Evolutionary aspects in evaluating mutations in the melanocortin 4 receptor [PDF]
, 2007 More than 70 missense mutations have been identified in the human melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R), and many of them have been associated with obesity. In a number of cases, the causal link between mutations in MC4R and obesity is controversially discussed.
Annette Grüters +34 more
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Standing in the Dark: Sloth and Stability, Paralysis and Perseverance in Book IV of the Confessio Amantis [PDF]
, 2020 In Book IV of the Confessio, things happen in the dark – the dark of night, of dreams, of despair, of secrecy, of treachery, of death. The medieval sin of accidia sets the pace for this beautifully constructed book, whose tales link and cross, as in a ...
Schutz, Andrea
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Hierarchy-based Image Embeddings for Semantic Image Retrieval
, 2019 Deep neural networks trained for classification have been found to learn powerful image representations, which are also often used for other tasks such as comparing images w.r.t. their visual similarity. However, visual similarity does not imply semantic
Barz, Björn, Denzler, Joachim
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Vertebrates of the Last Interglaciation in Canada: A Review, with New Data [PDF]
, 1990 Vertebrate fossils and faunas that are reasonably inferred to be of last (Sangamonian) interglacial age are considered in geographic order from east to west to north in Canada.
Harington, C. Richard
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Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2022 The Sloth Bear being myrmecophagous is specialized to feed on ants, termites, and fleshy food; however, no discernible comparison exists on a diet, seasonal feeding pattern, and factor influence in a different habitat of an Indian sub-continent. A review
Vasantkumar Rabari, N. Dharaiya
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Prelude to the Anthropocene: Two new North American Land Mammal Ages (NALMAs) [PDF]
, 2014 Human impacts have left and are leaving distinctive imprints in the geological record. Here we show that in North America, the human-caused changes evident in the mammalian fossil record since c.
Allison Stegner, M +11 more
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Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2022 The impact of humans on biodiversity, in the form of the spatially extensive occurrence of humans and subsequent habitat degradation, leads to negative interactions between humans and native wildlife.
Sankarshan Chaudhuri +5 more
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A New Species of Neoglyptatelus (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata) from the Late Miocene of Uruguay Provides New Insights on the Evolution of the Dorsal Armor in Cingulates [PDF]
, 2018 The genus Neoglyptatelus Carlini, Vizcaíno and Scillato-Yané has been considered a member of Glyptatelinae, a group encompassing the purportedly basal-most glyptodonts.
Fernicola, Juan Carlos +4 more
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