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Vulture distribution and people perception of vultures in Pokhara Valley, Nepal [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
AbstractDue to an abundance and diversity of vultures, Nepal is one of the most important countries for vulture conservation. Within Nepal, the Pokhara Valley is especially significant. We examine the distribution of vultures within the Pokhara Valley by conducting counts at 11 potential feeding or roosting sites using point count method.
Hemanta Dhakal, Krishna Prasad Bhusal, Hari Prasad Sharma   +2 more
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Vultures [PDF]

Current Biology, 2016
Buechley and Sekercioglu introduce vultures, the supreme avian scavengers that now face multiple threats.
Evan R, Buechley, Cagan H, Sekercioglu
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Teleological Essentialism: Generalized [PDF]

, 2020
Natural/social kind essentialism is the view that natural kind categories, both living and non-living natural kinds, as well as social kinds (e.g., race, gender), are essentialized. On this view, artifactual kinds are not essentialized.
Keil F. C., Piaget J., Rose D., Rose D., Tobia K., Turri J.   +5 more
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Too Sanitary for Vultures [PDF]

Science, 2009
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Donázar, José A., Margalida, Antoni, Carrete, Martina, Sánchez-Zapata, José A.   +3 more
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Talking with Vultures [PDF]

Mind, 2017
We provide a critical study of Herman Cappelen and John Hawthorne’s "Relativism and Monadic Truth".
Ferrari, Filippo, Wright, Crispin
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Vulture Funds and the Fresh Start Accounting Value of Firms Emerging from Bankruptcy [PDF]

, 2018
We study how distress-oriented hedge funds (vulture funds) play an important role in the fresh start valuation of firms emerging from Chapter 11 reorganization.
Gietzmann, M., Isidro, H., Raonic, I.
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The first whole genome and transcriptome of the cinereous vulture reveals adaptation in the gastric and immune defense systems and possible convergent evolution between the Old and New World vultures [PDF]

, 2015
Background: The cinereous vulture, Aegypius monachus, is the largest bird of prey and plays a key role in the ecosystem by removing carcasses, thus preventing the spread of diseases. Its feeding habits force it to cope with constant exposure to pathogens,
A Goncalves, A Löytynoja, A Mortazavi, Alvin Chon, Andrea Manica, B Eliotout, B Li, B Li, BJ Haas, CG Sibley, D Kim, DD Pollock, DL Ogada, DW Huang, E Quevillon, E Trompouki, E Videvall, ED Jarvis, F Ikeda, G Marçais, G Pertea, G Takaesu, G Zhang, GD Ruxton, GE Duke, GJ Krejs, H Li, H Li, H Li, Hak-Min Kim, HS Yim, HY Song, HyeJin Lee, Hyunho Kim, IA Adzhubei, International Chicken Genome Sequencing Consortium, J Ferguson-Lees, J Hoyo del, J Parra, J Puente de la, J Wang, J Xu, J Ye, J Zhang, JeHoon Jun, Jeongheui Lim, Jeremy Edwards, Jessica A. Weber, JG Teodoro, JM Lastra de la, Jong Bhak, Junsu Ko, K Arnold, K Tamura, Kyudong Han, M Kanehisa, M Loiarro, M Roggenbuck, M Tariq, M Wink, MD Robinson, MD Robinson, MG Grabherr, NIBR (National Institute of Biological Resources), Oksung Chung, P Vijayakumar, R Medzhitov, R Nielsen, RA Dalloul, RA Goldstein, S Anders, S Sharma, Seondeok Jin, SF Altschul, Stephen J. O’Brien, Sungwoong Jho, T Schwede, T Yamazaki, W He, W Miller, WC Warren, Woon Kee Paek, X Ma, X Zhan, Y Choi, Y Huang, Y Moriya, YS Cho, Yun Sung Cho, Z Yang, Z Yang   +90 more
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Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing [PDF]

, 2010
There are three reasons for attempting to reach a common understanding of the responsibilities of sovereign borrowers and their lenders. First, the flow of capital to sovereign debtors is exceptionally important to the world economy.
Buchheit, Lee C., Gulati, G. Mitu
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Evidence that vulture restaurants increase the local abundance of mammalian carnivores in South Africa [PDF]

, 2014
Vulture restaurants are used worldwide as a conservation tool to provide threatened vultures with a source of supplementary carrion free from anthropogenic contaminants such as poisons and veterinary drugs.
Altizer, Bellan, Bino, Blaum, Carruthers, Cortés-Avizanda, Cortés-Avizanda, Craft, DeVault, Deygout, Deygout, Dijk, Donazar, Dyk, Fuller, Gilbert, Jhala, Kamler, Kolowski, Kortello, Kruuk, Loveridge, Markandya, Mateo-Tomas, Monadjem, Monello, Moreno-Opo, Mundy, Ogada, Ogada, Olson, Oro, Pain, Phipps, Phipps, Piper, Robb, Sekercioglu, St John, Stuart, Thorn, Thorn, Wilmers, Wilson, Wright, Yarnell, Yirga, Zulu   +47 more
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Dermatological remedies in the traditional pharmacopoeia of Vulture-Alto Bradano, inland southern Italy [PDF]

, 2008
Dermatological remedies make up at least one-third of the traditional pharmacopoeia in southern Italy. The identification of folk remedies for the skin is important both for the preservation of traditional medical knowledge and in the search for novel ...
A Pieroni, A Pieroni, A Pieroni, A Pieroni, A Pieroni, A Pieroni, A Pieroni, A Pieroni, A Pieroni, AM Scherrer, Andrea Pieroni, Bradley C Bennett, BS Nayak, C Quave, Cassandra L Quave, CL Quave, CL Quave, CR Stevens, E Lev, EM Costa-Neto, F Capasso, F Lentini, G Caneva, G Salerno, ISTAT, L Viegi, M Blumenthal, NG Passalacqua, PM Guarrera, PM Guarrera, PM Guarrera, PM Guarrera, RC de Souza Campos Fernandes, RE Uncini Manganelli, RM Klevens, RR Alves, RRN Alves, S Gibbons, S Gibbons, S Pignatti, V De Feo, VA Molochko, WK Po Shiu   +42 more
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