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Poeciliid male mate preference is influenced by female size but not by fecundity
(2013)
While female mate preference is very well studied, male preference has only recently begun to receive significant attention. Its existence is found in numerous taxa, but empirical research has mostly been limited to a ...
The Water Capacity Subsidy that the City of Norman, Oklahoma Provides New Real Estate Development: A Descriptive Analysis
(2015-04-29)
Providing new water capacity to some stakeholders at a price that is below either the price charged other stakeholders or the actual costs of providing new water capacity constitutes a subsidy. This holds regardless of ...
Type I Interferons Induce T Regulatory 1 Responses and Restrict Humoral Immunity during Experimental Malaria
(PLoS Pathogens, 2016-10-12)
Author Summary Humoral immunity is essential for host resistance to pathogens that trigger highly inflammatory immune responses, including Plasmodium parasites, the causative agents of malaria. Long-lived, secreted antibody ...
Determinants of Salivary Cotinine among Smokeless Tobacco Users: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Bangladesh
(PLos One, 2016-08-09)
Introduction More than 80% of all smokeless tobacco (ST) products in the world are consumed in South Asia; yet little is known about their consumption behaviour, addictiveness, and toxic properties. This paper, for the ...
Building Social Capital Through Rhetoric and Public Relations
(Management Communication Quarterly, 2011-08-01)
When the focus is on meaning making, language, rhetorical argument, and persuasion, there is enormous potential to see how public relations theory and practice in external organizational rhetoric can serve community ...
A Systematic Literature Review of Servant Leadership Theory in Organizational Contexts
(2012-04-22)
A new research area linked to ethics, virtues, and morality is servant leadership. Scholars are currently seeking publication outlets as critics debate whether this new leadership theory is significantly distinct, viable, ...
Form inspection using kernel methods
(Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 2010-06-01)
Form inspection of non-linear surfaces is a difficult task as suitable analytical models are often unavailable. This paper presents a mathematical model for surface inspection of face-milled plates and determination of the ...
Capitalizing resolving power of density gradient ultracentrifugation by freezing and precisely slicing centrifuged solution : enabling identification of complex proteins from mitochondria by matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry
(2016)
Density gradient centrifugation is widely utilized for various high purity sample preparations, and density gradient ultracentrifugation (DGU) is often used for more resolution-demanding purification of organelles and ...
Cardiomyocyte Regulation of Systemic Lipid Metabolism by the Apolipoprotein B-Containing Lipoproteins in Drosophila
(PLos Genetics, 2017-01-17)
Author Summary The heart is increasingly recognized to serve an important role in the regulation of whole-body lipid homeostasis; however, the underlying mechanisms remained poorly understood. Here, our study in Drosophila ...
The Impact of Fillers on Lineup Performance
(2017)
Filler siphoning theory posits that the presence of fillers (known innocents) in a lineup protects an innocent suspect
from being chosen by siphoning choices away from that innocent suspect. This mechanism has been proposed ...