Kathleen R. Laird, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Kirk A. Maasch, Brian F. Cumming
Sálim Ali, Sidney Dillon Ripley, John Henry Dick
1200 species of birds, in 20 orders and numerous families, are known in the Indian subcontinent. This handbook describes their distribution, habits, breeding biology, diet, voice, and other features. Over 100 plates and systematic keys in the text help with identification. Maps show the distribution...
Qinglong You, Jinzhong Min, Shichang Kang
ABSTRACT On the basis of mean temperature, maximum temperature and minimum temperature from the updated China Homogenized Historical Temperature Data Sets, the recent warming in the Tibetan Plateau ( TP ) during 1961–2005 and global warming hiatus period are examined. During 1961–2005, the mean temp...
Judith C. Kulig, Dana Edge, Ivan Townshend, Nancy Lightfoot et al.
Mercy Miyang Tembon, Lucia Fort
No AccessDirections in Development - Human Development1 Feb 2013Girl's Education in the 21st CenturyGender Equality, Empowerment and GrowthAuthors/Editors: Mercy Miyang Tembon, Lucia FortMercy Miyang Tembon, Lucia Forthttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-7474-0SectionsAboutPDF (2.1 MB) ToolsAdd to fav...
Niclas Kuper, Nick Modersitzki, Le Vy Phan, John F. Rauthmann
Personality psychology has long focused on structural trait models, but it can also offer a rich understanding of the dynamics, processes, mechanisms, and functioning of individual differences or entire persons. The field of personality dynamics, which works towards such an understanding, has experi...
John Briscoe
A common approach to assessing the relative importance of different transmission routes is to eliminate transmission through one route and assume that the ratio "number of cases eliminated:number of residual cases" measures the relative importance of the eliminated route vis-à-vis the residual trans...
Ian Jacobs, Kjetil Sunde, Charles D. Deakin, Mary Fran Hazinski et al.
Birgit Meyer
Introduction: From Imagined Communities to Aesthetic Formations: Religious Mediations, Sensational Forms and Styles of Binding B.Meyer PART I: BOUNDARY POLITICS 'Don't ask questions, just observe!': Boundary Politics in Bahian Candomble M.van de Port Purity and the Devil: Community, Media and the Bo...
Marcelina Molina Torres, René R. Dávila Torres, Ana Morán Rodríguez, Cindy‐Lee Dennis
Many new mothers discontinue breastfeeding prematurely due to difficulties encountered rather than maternal choice. Research has shown that a significant predictor of breastfeeding duration is maternal confidence. Using self-efficacy theory as a conceptual framework to measure breastfeeding confiden...
John Hutnyk, Raminder Kaur
African-American musicians head East for Kung-Fu kicks while paedophiles go for cheap sex pilgrimage; Western bible-bashers adopt missionary positions in India while heroic Saint George signs on as an Arab soldier in Britain; the scars of Partition mock the protocols of transit, while nomadic insurg...
M. Tahir Patel, M. Sojib Ahmed, Hassan Imran, Nauman Zafar Butt et al.
The bifacial gain of East-West vertical and South-facing optimally-tilted bifacial solar farms are well established. One wonders if bifacial gain and the associated levelized cost of energy (LCOE) may be further improved by tracking the sun. Tracking bifacial photovoltaics (PV) system has advantages...
Katarzyna Wertheim‐Tysarowska, Agnieszka Sobczyńska‐Tomaszewska, Cezary Kowaléwski, Michał Skroński et al.
Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa (DEB) is a genetic disease caused by mutations in the COL7A1 gene that is inherited in the autosomal dominant or recessive mode. We have developed a curated, freely accessible COL7A1 specific database (http://www.col7.info), which contains more than 730 reported and ...
Elisabetta Valentini, Michele Zampieri, Marco Malavolta, Maria Giulia Bacalini et al.
Aging | doi:10.18632/aging.101022. Elisabetta Valentini, Michele Zampieri, Marco Malavolta, Maria Giulia Bacalini, Roberta Calabrese, Tiziana Guastafierro, Anna Reale, Claudio Franceschi, Antti Hervonen, Bernhard Koller, Jürgen Bernhardt, P. Eline Slagboom, Olivier Toussaint, Ewa Sikora, Efstathios...
T. J. Demos
This special issue of Third Text, dedicated to contemporary art and the politics of ecology, investigates the intersection of art criticism, politico-ecological theory, environmental activism and postcolonial globalization.The focus is on practices and discourses of eco-aesthetics that have emerged ...