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Terror, Aesthetics, and the Humanities in the Public Sphere

Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2010
In the early days of the Iraq War, the United States used the power of images, such as those of the “mother of all bombs” and a wide array of weapons, as well as aesthetic techniques to influence and shape the consciousness of millions and to generate ...
Emory Elliott
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Replacing mechanical protection with colorful faces–twice: parallel evolution of the non-operculate marine worm-snail genera Thylacodes (Guettard, 1770) and Cayo n. gen. (Gastropoda: Vermetidae) [PDF]

PeerJ, 2023
Vermetid worm-snails are sessile and irregularly coiled marine mollusks common in warmer nearshore and coral reef environments that are subject to high predation pressures by fish. Often cryptic, some have evolved sturdy shells or long columellar muscles
Rüdiger Bieler, Timothy M. Collins, Rosemary Golding, Camila Granados-Cifuentes, John M. Healy, Timothy A. Rawlings, Petra Sierwald   +6 more
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Rampant tooth loss across 200 million years of frog evolution

eLife, 2021
Teeth are present in most clades of vertebrates but have been lost completely several times in actinopterygian fishes and amniotes. Using phenotypic data collected from over 500 genera via micro-computed tomography, we provide the first rigorous ...
Daniel J Paluh, Karina Riddell, Catherine M Early, Maggie M Hantak, Gregory FM Jongsma, Rachel M Keeffe, Fernanda Magalhães Silva, Stuart V Nielsen, María Camila Vallejo-Pareja, Edward L Stanley, David C Blackburn   +10 more
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Long-Term Shifts in Faunal Composition of Freshwater Mollusks in Spring-Fed Rivers of Florida

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Florida’s freshwater spring and river ecosystems have been deteriorating due to direct and indirect human impacts. However, while the conservation and restoration strategies employed to mitigate these effects often rely on faunal surveys that go back ...
Kristopher M. Kusnerik, Guy H. Means, Roger W. Portell, Alshina Kannai, Mariah M. Monroe, Ryan Means, Michal Kowalewski   +6 more
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Watershed Colonialism and Popular Geographies of North American Rivers

Open Rivers, 2017
Rivers have long been the subject and vehicle for compelling stories. As physical features that tie natural and human history, rivers in narratives have hidden as much as they’ve revealed by naturalizing cultural practices and human values...
Sigma Colon
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History of nutrient inputs to the northeastern United States, 1930–2000 [PDF]

, 2013
Humans have dramatically altered nutrient cycles at local to global scales. We examined changes in anthropogenic nutrient inputs to the northeastern United States (NE) from 1930 to 2000.
Hale, Rebecca L., Hoover, Joseph H., Vorosmarty, Charles J., Wollheim, Wilfred M.   +3 more
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The Effects of Herbarium Specimen Characteristics on Short-Read NGS Sequencing Success in Nearly 8000 Specimens: Old, Degraded Samples Have Lower DNA Yields but Consistent Sequencing Success

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021
Phylogenetic datasets are now commonly generated using short-read sequencing technologies unhampered by degraded DNA, such as that often extracted from herbarium specimens.
Heather R. Kates, Joshua R. Doby, Carol M. Siniscalchi, Raphael LaFrance, Douglas E. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Robert P. Guralnick, Robert P. Guralnick, Ryan A. Folk   +13 more
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Principles, Pragmatism, and Politics: The Evolution of Washington State’s Sentencing Guidelines [PDF]

, 2013
Although the U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines have received much attention (and criticism), we do well to remember that the United States is a federal system, and that each of the fifty states has its own sentencing rules and procedures. Today, roughly
Stith, Kate
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Teaching the History of American Rivers

Open Rivers, 2021
Like Open Rivers, I have long tried to answer the question of the value of river history and how can it be put to work to achieve environmental justice.
Scot McFarlane
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How can research on children of incarcerated parents in the United States alter corrections practice? [PDF]

, 2018
The upsurge in people incarcerated in the United States since the late 1970s has meant that many people in prison and jail are parents. Currently 2.7 million children in the United States have incarcerated parents, and more than 10 million children ...
Sullivan, Megan
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