Học liệu mở OER: Recent submissions
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Temporal modelling of ballast water discharge and ship-mediated invasion risk to Australia
(2015)Biological invasions have the potential to cause extensive ecological and economic damage. Maritime trade facilitates biological invasions by transferring species in ballast water, and on ships’ hulls. With volumes of ... -
Analysis of millimetre wave polarization diverse multiple input multiple output capacity
(2015)Millimetre-waves offer the possibility of wide bandwidth and consequently high data rate for wireless communications. For both uni- and dual-polarized systems, signals sent over a link may suffer severe degradation due to ... -
Concordance on zebra stripes
(2015)The functional significance of the extraordinary black and white stripes of zebras is still mysterious but now an active field of research. Four major hypotheses have been put forward: stripes are an antipredator defence ... -
On themodularity of certain functions from the Gromov–Witten theory of elliptic orbifolds
(2015)In this paper, we study modularity of several functions which naturally arose in a recent paper of Lau and Zhou on open Gromov–Witten potentials of elliptic orbifolds. They derived a number of examples of indefinite theta ... -
Response to comment by Loiselle & Ramchandra
(2015)I thank Loiselle and Ramchandra (hereafter ‘the authors’) for their interest. First, I should say that it might have been a mistake to use the term ‘false discovery rate’. This is so because the same term is used in the ... -
The invasive plant, Brassica nigra,degrades local mycorrhizas across a wide geographical landscape
(2015)Disruption of mycorrhizal fungi that form symbioses with local native plants is a strategy used by some invasive exotic plants for competing within their resident communities. Example invasive plants include Alliaria ... -
Omura’s whales off northwest Madagascar
(2015)The Omura’s whale (Balaenoptera omurai)was describedas a new species in 2003 and then soon after as an ancient lineage basal to a Bryde’s/sei whale clade. Currently known only from whaling and stranding specimens primarily ... -
An advanced shape-fitting algorithmapplied to quadrupedal mammals
(2015)Body mass is a fundamental physical property of an individual and has enormous bearing upon ecology and physiology. Generating reliable estimates for body mass is therefore a necessary step in many palaeontological studies. ... -
High content screening identifies a role for Na+ channels in insulin production
(2015)Insulin production is the central feature of functionally mature and differentiated pancreaticβ-cells. Reduced insulin transcription and dedifferentiation have been implicated in type 2 diabetes, making drugs that could ... -
Flood pulse effects on multispecies fishery yields in the Lower Amazon
(2015)Seasonally fluctuating water levels, known as ‘flood pulses’, control the productivity of large river fisheries, but the extent and mechanisms through which flood pulses affect fishery yields are poorly understood. To ... -
Social signals and algorithmic trading of Bitcoin
(2015)The availability of data on digital traces is growing to unprecedented sizes, but inferring actionable knowledge from large-scale data is far from being trivial. This is especially important for computational finance, where ... -
Use of elastic stability analysis to explain the stress-dependent nature of soil strength
(2015)The peak and critical state strengths of sands are linearly related to the stress level, just as the frictional resistance to sliding along an interface is related to the normal force. The analogy with frictional sliding ... -
Izumo1 and Juno
(2015)Reproductive proteins are among the most rapidly evolving classes of proteins. For a subset of these, rapid evolution is driven by positive Darwinian selection despite vital, well-conserved, reproductive functions. Izumo1 ... -
Diversification rates and phenotypic evolution in venomous snakes
(2016)The relationship between rates of diversification and of body size change (a common proxy for phenotypic evolution) was investigated across Elapidae, the largest radiation of highly venomous snakes. Time-calibrated ... -
Predicting the outcome of competitionwhen fitness inequality is variable
(2015)Traditional niche theory predicts that when species compete for one limiting resource in simple ecological settings the more fit competitor should exclude the less fit competitor. Since the advent of neutral theory ecologists ... -
The advantage of short paper titles
(2015)Vast numbers of scientific articles are published each year, some of which attract considerable attention, and some of which go almost unnoticed. Here, we investigate whether any of this variance can be explained by a ... -
Can outcomes of dyadic interactions be consistent across contexts among wil zebrafish?
(2015)Winner–loser relations among group-living individuals are often measured by the levels of aggressive interactions between them. These interactions are typically driven by competition for resources such as food and mates. ... -
Shared Escovopsis parasites between leaf cutting and non leaf cutting ants in the higher attine fungus growing ant symbiosis
(2015)Fungus-gardening (attine) ants grow fungus for food in protected gardens, which contain beneficial, auxiliary microbes, but also microbes harmful to gardens. Among these potentially pathogenic microorganisms, the most ... -
A cryptic Allee effect
(2015)Current theories predict that Allee effects should be widespread in nature, but there is little consistency in empirical findings. We hypothesized that this gap can arise from ignoring spatial contexts (i.e. spatial scale ... -
Comparing maternal genetic variation across two millennia reveals the demographic history of an ancient human population in southwest Turkey
(2016)More than two decades of archaeological research at the site of Sagalassos, in southwest Turkey, resulted in the study of the former urban settlement in all its features. Originally settled in late Classical/early Hellenistic ...
