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Playing the System: Electoral Bias in the 2024 UK General Election

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 65-73, January/March 2025.
Abstract The UK's 2024 general election was the least proportional of modern times. Labour's substantial parliamentary majority rested on the smallest ever winning party vote share. The Conservatives, meanwhile, suffered one of their worst ever results.
Charles Pattie, David Cutts
wiley   +1 more source

Session B8: Swimming Behaviour of Beluga and Stellate Sturgeons During Their Migration in the Lower Danube River

open access: yes, 2015
Presenting Author Bio: Marian Paraschiv is member (2002) of Sturgeon Research Group involved in monitoring YOY sturgeons tagged with different techniquesAbstract: The Lower Danube River (LDR) still supports three naturally self-sustaining species of ...
Suciu, Radu   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

Fragmented and Dealigned: The 2024 British General Election and the Rise of Place‐Based Politics

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 13-25, January/March 2025.
Abstract While the outcome of the 2024 British general election signalled a resounding repudiation of the incumbent government—returning a 231‐seat swing from the Conservatives to Labour—it did not radically overturn the geography of electoral outcomes in England and Wales.
Will Jennings   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

TO THE TOPIC ON THE CONTRIBUTION OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS TO THE PRESERVATION OF THE BIO-RESOURCES STOCKS OF THE CASPIAN SEA

open access: yesЮг России: экология, развитие, 2017
Aim. The purpose of the work was to assess the activity of international organizations and determine theirs contribution to the preservation and rational use of water biological resources of the Caspian Sea and their inhabitant in the period after 1991 ...
R. T. Asanov   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Most Disproportionate UK Election: How the Labour Party Doubled its Seat Share with a 1.6‐Point Increase in Vote Share in 2024

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 37-64, January/March 2025.
Abstract The Labour Party doubled its seats in the 2024 UK general election, winning a landslide majority with only a 1.6 point increase in its UK vote share and an historically low vote share for a winning party at just under 34 per cent. This article provides new evidence for three constituency‐level explanations for this outcome in the context of ...
Marta Miori, Jane Green
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of Propolis Efficacy in Wound Healing After Minimally Invasive Sex Determination in Sturgeon

open access: yesApplied Sciences
The present study investigates the efficacy of propolis as a natural therapeutic agent in the wound healing process following minimally invasive surgical sex determination in sterlet sturgeon (Acipenser ruthenus) specimens.
Dragoș Moraru   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Government by WhatsApp? Transparency, Secrecy and Avoidance during Covid in the UK

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract It has been claimed repeatedly that transparency undermines decision‐making. The fear of disclosure means officials and politicians may not discuss policy fully, are inhibited from giving frank advice, and could avoid proper record keeping. The use of informal communications—particularly the use of WhatsApp—makes all these tensions more likely,
Ben Worthy, Martin Rosenbaum
wiley   +1 more source

Seasonal Habitat Selection by a Threatened Ungulate in an Industrializing Boreal Landscape

open access: yesAnimal Conservation, EarlyView.
Understanding habitat selection by Threatened wood bison in landscapes characterized by anthropogenic disturbance is important for conservation planning. During summer and winter, bison selected for linear (e.g., roads, seismic lines, pipelines) and polygonal (e.g., well sites) disturbances, unless there were high densities of linear features.
Lisa J. Koetke   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Brief introduction to sturgeons with a special focus on the European sturgeon, Acipenser sturio L., 1758.

open access: yes, 2011
Brief introduction to sturgeons with a special focus on the European sturgeon, Acipenser sturio L ...
Gessner, Jorn   +4 more
core   +4 more sources

Mixed mycobacterial infections in farmed sturgeons

open access: yes, 2015
Based on microbiological and histopathological examinations and DNA sequencing, several outbreaks of mycobacteriosis in the reared sturgeons, including Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis Gray) and Amur sturgeon (Acipenser schrencki), were identified ...
Li, Ai Hua   +6 more
core   +1 more source

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